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Columbia campus protests: as students occupy building, what next?
Pro-Palestinian protesters have taken over Hamilton Hall, a key campus building, after talks to end the encampment failed
Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University have occupied a building on campus in an escalation of their months-long demonstration against Israel’s war in Gaza.
The takeover of Hamilton Hall – named after one of America’s founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton – followed the failure of talks with university authorities aimed at winning the protesters’ agreement to dismantle an encampment of about 120 tents.
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