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NEW YORK — Jewish students at Cooper Union college who say they were locked in the campus library during a pro-Palestinian protest were expected to demand the arrests of those who allegedly threatened them as criticism of the university’s response mounted Thursday. The group told reporters at news outlets it took 40 minutes for police to respond to the protesters. A rally was scheduled for ...

Representatives for a group of Jewish students at Cooper Union want the university’s president fired for what they claim was her failure to protect them from a mob of pro-Palestine protesters who cornered them in the school library on Wednesday.

After Jewish students say they were locked in the Cooper Union library to protect them from pro-Palestinian protesters, some reveal what really happened inside.

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Some 233 people have been arrested across the five boroughs over the last 17 days of large-scale protests following the war in Israel, police said on Tuesday.

NEW YORK- US law enforcement agencies stepped up security measures on Friday (Oct 13) to safeguard Jewish and Muslim communities amid global protests over Israeli-Arab bloodshed in the Middle East, as thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators took to the streets in New York City. Throngs of protesters assembled near Times Square in Manhattan, demanding Palestinian independence and decrying Israeli Prime Minister...

Protestors were met with hundreds of police officers surrounding the protest

Gov. Kathy Hochul, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and other politicians have weighed in.

Up to 100 protesters have been arrested at a Pro-Palestine demonstration outside Senator Chuck Schumers New York home. 

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