Pro-Palestinian students stage sit-in at Barnard College to protest expulsions

Group storms building with dean’s office over expulsion of two students last month who interrupted a class on Israel

A group of pro-Palestinian student protesters stormed a Barnard College building on Wednesday to protest against the expulsion last month of two students who interrupted a university class on Israel.

The demonstrators, who numbered in the dozens, staged a sit-in outside the office of Barnard’s dean, Leslie Grinage, in the college’s Milbank Hall, the Columbia Spectator reported.

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