Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs ShareRep. Ilhan Omar praises solidarity movement on campuses Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., praised the solidarity emerging as campuses across the country protest the Israel-Hamas war after faculty at Columbia University staged a walkout over the administration’s crackdown.“On Thursday, Columbia arrested and suspended its students who were peacefully protesting and have now ignited a nationwide Gaza Solidarity movement,” Omar wrote on X. “This is more than the students hoped for and I am glad to see this type of solidarity.”Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, was arrested while participating in the protests and suspended from Columbia’s nearby sister school Barnard College. The congresswoman said she was “enormously proud” of her daughter.Hirsi told MSNBC she believed the school targeted for suspension students who were speaking to media. She denied the protest encampment on campus was threatening, describing it as a “beautiful” community and that students held Shabbat during that time.ShareColumbia courses go virtual as protests continue, faculty stage walkout in supportStudents at Columbia University are on their sixth day of camping out in the school’s South Lawn, a re-creation of an anti-war demonstration students held in 1968 opposing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik said today that classes would be held virtually and that school leaders would be coming together to discuss a way to bring an end to “this crisis.” The original 1968 protests lasted roughly a week before police forcibly removed students in full-scale police riots, alumni Oren Root described in an opinion essay. A large group of faculty members staged a walkout today in support of students. Students were arrested last week when school administration asked for police to remove students, citing a threat to safety, though NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell told the Columbia Spectator that the protests were peaceful and “offered no resistance whatsoever.” The Columbia encampment has inspired similar demonstrations at other campuses, including New York University, Yale University and University of California Berkeley. Protesters have also gathered outside the gate to Columbia University, where antisemitic incidents and aggressive crowds have been reported. SharePro-Palestinian supporters arrested at encampment on Yale plaza Police officers on Monday arrested protesters who had set up an encampment on Yale University’s campus in support of the Palestinian cause, one of a growing number of American universities to see demonstrations surrounding the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.Police arrested protesters Monday after a third night of protesters’ camping out in support of the Palestinian cause on Yale University’s campus.Samad Hakani / Yale Daily NewsProtesters had been on their third night of camping out in an effort to urge Yale to divest from military weapons manufacturers, the Yale Daily News reported.Officers gathered at the protest site at Beinecke Plaza shortly before 7 a.m. Monday and were seen approaching the encampment and “flipping up the entrances to the tents,” the school paper wrote on X.Then officers issued a warning for students and journalists to leave, or they’d be arrested. Minutes later, the school paper wrote on X that police were arresting people.In total, 47 students were issued summonses, Yale said in a statement Monday. Read the full story here. ShareA high energy crowd at NYUPeople gathered in front of New York University’s Stern School of Business to protest on Gould Plaza this afternoon. The crowd remained in high energy while chanting “free Palestine.” The group also held a communal prayer and took a moment of silence for those who have lost their lives in Gaza.NYPD was on the scene. A few people gathered across the street, with at least one person holding an Israeli flag.Karely Perez, an NYU alumni, said she joined the protest to show her support for the student organizations behind the encampment.“Once the students start getting mad, things start to change,” she said. Perez said she was proud of the students and added that although the encampments on university campuses are new, pro-Palestinian activism has always existed at schools like NYU.
