On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student recently released from ICE detention, responded to takeovers of a library on campus by stating that “I understand when students — when all doors are closed for students, that the university is pushing them further and further.” “has pushed students too far by refusing to acknowledge the genocide and refusing to divest from war and to invest in peace.”
Host Laura Coates asked, “I want to point out that, on the campuses, because I know you’re very closely tied to — obviously, as a student, yourself, there, protests have continued, and, in spite of what you’re articulating, the NYPD arrested, I think, 80 people this week alone at Columbia’s campus library. And the
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