On Wednesday, pro-Palestinian Columbia University protesters harassed former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Clinton teaches public and international affairs at an Ivy League university in New York.
According to a video that Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine posted on social media, protesters approached the former senator, first lady, and secretary of state as she passed Columbia’s International Affairs Building.
Chants from the protestors included “Hillary, Hillary, you can’t hide, you are supporting genocide,” and “Take our demands.”
At today’s sit in for palestine, Hillary Clinton was shamed out of the SIPA building. She teaches a class at Columbia University and has refused to let students ask her questions about Palestine. pic.twitter.com/2AP7UcAO3f
— layla, lmsw (@itslaylas) November 29, 2023
According to Fox News, the protesters—many of whom were wearing masks—also aimed insults at Keren Yarhi-Milo, the dean of the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs and the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations, who happens to be Clinton’s co-teacher.
“Can’t you see you are supporting genocide?” the protesters chanted at her and Clinton.
They also yelled out “Shame on you! Shame on you!” and “Columbia has blood on its hands!”
BREAKING: Pro-Palestine students at Columbia University disrupt a class taught by Hillary Clinton called “Inside the Situation Room.”
Students have also been walking out of her lecture in protest of her support for Israel. pic.twitter.com/fyAEspHd4j
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) November 29, 2023
“Inside the Situation Room” is the name of the class that Clinton and Yarhi-Milo teach.
According to the course description, to “understand the key factors that underpin a nation’s most crucial decisions, the course employs insights from diverse academic fields, including political psychology, domestic politics, and international relations, and the direct experience of high-level principals in the room.”
School administrators stated that they support their pupils’ freedom to demonstrate.
“We continue to support our students who wish to express themselves through respectful speech while at the same time we fulfill our responsibility to maintain the core activities of our school. Today was a good example of balancing these principles,” the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs said in a statement to Fox News.
According to the Washington Examiner, there were about thirty protesters who confronted Clinton in the hallways.
She has dealt with demonstrators at Columbia before.
Following the horrific attack on the Jewish state by Hamas terrorists on October 7, a sizable contingent of Clinton’s students staged a walkout from her class on November 1 and joined the roughly 300 other students outside. The students were incensed that the former secretary of state had publicly sided with Israel.
At the end of October, Clinton declined to call for a cease-fire in Gaza, claiming that those who did so “do not understand Hamas.”
Instead, she defended Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas.
“It would be such a gift to Hamas because they would spend whatever time there was a cease-fire in effect rebuilding their armaments… to be able to fend off an eventual assault by the Israelis,” she explained.
WATCH: @NorahODonnell moderated a bipartisan discussion Thursday with former U.S. Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and @HillaryClinton.
On the Israel-Hamas war, @HillaryClinton said, “People who are calling for a ceasefire now do not understand Hamas. That is not… pic.twitter.com/WUWYRW6uOz
— CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil (@CBSEveningNews) October 29, 2023
On October 27, Clinton was confronted by a demonstrator during an event in Houston. Her support for Texas Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee was cut short when a guy approached her and demanded an explanation for her husband’s relationship with the now-deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
