Once again witness the leadership of those peaceful Student Led Protests on campus. President biden i learned a long time ago to listen to that lady. This University Needs to get control of the situation. We want them to be peaceful protests. John we are awaiting a White House Briefing as the antisemitism spread across the country. President biden and his team still have not delivered formal remarks addressing this escalating situation. Setting a deadline for one hour away. Ordering students who have occupied the campus for days to clear that encampment or face suspension. Sandra hello and welcome, everyone. I am sandra smith in new york. John, great to be with you as we kick off a brandnew week and continue to see scenes like this on our College Campuses coasttocoast. John we began this week month as we began last week. So far President Biden has not made any official remarks about the protests which have jewish students feeling unsafe on campus as they get ready for finals and graduation ceremonies. Sandra protests hitting dozens of elite universities in 12 states now where students say they will not leave until their demands are met. The top demand being divestment from israel. John full coverage now. We will talk to a jewish student at the University Of Michigan. Sandra demonstrators have torn down the Police Barricades there. First, we go to Brian Live OutsideColumbia University where a letter to the students set that 2 00 deadline l less tn an hour from now. What exactly did that letter say . Are the students saying that they are going to listen to the universitys requests . So far, what we know is that 2 00 p. M. Deadline is set and those that do not leave the encampment face suspension immediately, really, and disciplinary probation until 2025. In the students inside that encampment are being told that they must check in with a University Official as they leave to self identify themselves, as well as sign a document committing to following University Guidelines from here on out until they graduate. No warning sent to this encampment this morning said this in part. It is important for you to know that the university has already identified many students in the encampment. If you do not identify yourself, you will not be eligible to sign a completeness complete the semester in good standing. In other words, a graduate if you do not leave by 2 00 p. M. , you will be suspended pending further investigation. Over the last half hour, we have seen two dozen nypd officers start to line up outside the main gates here on 116th street and duke columbia. This is important. The letter that was sent to the students did not mention that the nypd would be used if the students decided to stay after 2 00 p. M. No mention of physical removal. Just 3 days ago, the University Said that using the nypd would be counterproductive citing what happened here on april 18th with the mass arrests. The nypd is here right now im massing outside the gates less than an hour before that 2 00 p. M. Deadline. Will they be on campus . What will they do when they go inside . Those are all questions we are awaiting to get answered. This is a private university after the Columbia University president said this morning and negotiations with Student Protest Leaders were over after 5 days. They said they will not divest from israel, and that they will move on with commencement. It was time for this encampment to disband. That letter went on to say about following as well. The encampment has created an unwelcoming environment for many of our jewish students and faculty, external actors have contributed to creating a hostile environment and creation of title ix. This is unsafe for everyone including our neighbors. While this is happening at columbia, we have a live look at nyu here in new york and at y yale. I was encampments right now, no doubt those encampments are looking at how these protesters are going to respond and how this university will respond to take their cues from here. You initially asked me at the top, how they students are responding. The organization outlined on the x telling students tuesday, urging them to stay at the encampment past this deadline, urging people to calm here at noon. We will see what happens. It appears a standoff is ready to go. Today is the last day of classes. Final exams start on friday. Commencement is may 15th brother university making clear, they want this commencement to happen. That is why they are taking the action they said they are taking today. Sandra according to some of the New York Post reporting at this hour, breaking from columbia, Student Organizers telling the New York Post that they are announcing, we will not give them what they want and committing to making it hard to disperse us. We are about 54 minutes away from that deadline. We will be watching that very closely. Thank you. John now to washington, d. C. , where George Washington university, they are also pushing back against antiisrael demonstrations on campus. Ordering students to take out Protest Encampments because they violate campus rules. Live at George Washington university. Have they taken down those tents yet . They have not. They have been here since thursday. While there are tents here like brian was reporting in new york columbia, the posture of police definitely much less aggressive here. The d. C. Police and g. W. Police are in the area, but not collectively governing like we are seeing in columbia perhaps these authorities concerned that calming and would escalate tensions even more. The university clearly wants this group behind me to disperse at University Yard in the heart of the George Washington university campus. I spoke to some of these propalestinian protesters who said they had no intention of leaving. Chaotic moments overnight when folks stormed some of those police barriers, putting the barriers on top of one another and putting them in the middle of University Yard. This is right in the middle of campus. The president says these protesters need to go elsewhere. A support free speech. In some cases like this one, they say its gone too far. Heres one of the protesters this morning. We have had a really good momentum. All of that being inspired by the people in gaza, by the genocide. That inspiration has kept us going. And as i vowed us to be out here for 80 plus hours. And, i think it is being received really positively by our community. Not received positively, john and sandra by the jewish students who tell fox news, they dont feel safe on campus at all. Watch this. I am jewish. I am israeli. It is not only a jewish problem. It is an american problem. These people are not only chanting against the jews. They are chanting against american values. It stems from the faculty. They are indoctrinating kids with antiisrael lies and hate. John the president at the school says Free Expression and activism are not limited to encampment. Clearly defined rules of conduct and behavior. The actions of protesters have been highly offensive to many members of our community jeopardizing our ability to meet the priorities of University Community and the hateful language being displayed has no place on our campus. As far as commencement is concerned, that is a few weeks on may 17th. About what to do to make sure there is safety. At this point, it doesnt seem like g. W. Is anywhere near the university of Southern California in los angeles which canceled their commencement over Safety Concerns. The university of Southern California as well. They were denied a Graduation Ceremony because of covid. Now they will be denied the same thing because of these protests. Thank you. Sandra joining us now as a student at the University Of Michigan and president of wolverine for israel. Thank you very much for joining us. I want to put this up on the screen a map show where the protests are happening on campus all over the country right now. A number of states and universities has been growing by the day. The number of arrests made, 900 since april 18th. 275 arrests on saturday alone. None yet done your campus. Can you tell us what jewish students have been experiencing there . Thank you very much for having me. It is very difficult for jewish students. Seeing language like antifado revolution. It brings strict fear to us. If we think about, what happened during the first and second, violent uprising against our friends and family. We feel like we are being targeted and seeing other messaging and players that have been handed out that glorify october 7th. We have seen flyers that one of the leaders of hamas. We have seen flyers that say death to america. On the website called greek rank which focuses on the sororities and we have seen very antisemitic rhetoric where there is one post that suggested something it should be turned into a gas chamber. That is taking an extreme to the point where it is not safe for students. Its ruining the campus atmosphere. Sandra can i back to something youve said about the pamphlet circulating on campus . I ask you this question in the context of not hearing anything formal from the president. He had a member of congress leading into a speech last week talking about how these are peaceful protests at the students are entitled to preop you have provided us with multiple pamphlets that have been circulating on your campus that glorify october 7th and hamas. Yes, yes, that is correct. Most pamphlets are being passed around on our campus. It is deplorable to see that. It is really frustrating that the University Administration is not standing up for what is morally right and educating students and correcting against this disinformation. It pains us deeply. We all have friends or family by a degree of separation. Some have no degrees of separation. They were kidnapped or killed or we know someone who is directly impacted by the events of october 7th. Seeing that glorified is deplorable. Sandra what about the bottomline basics of protecting students and ensuring their safety . I know that you said that you have been spent on just for being jewish. Yeah, absolutely. There was a time 2 or so weeks ago. I was walking with my friend, myself, and a rabbi. We were spat out. Its incredible we are seeing slowly escalating Violence Toward the jewish students, towards the proisrael students. Yesterday they had a massive rally in which the antiisrael students at the encampment brought in a whole variety of nonstudents to basically occupy the entire center of campus area. One of the speeches, they talked about how zionists should feel uncomfortable on campus. That is absolutely not how it should be. Zionism is the jewish right to selfdetermination and their ancestral homeland. It is wrong to be saying that. It is very disappointing to h hear. To see and hear what you have to say on their College Campuses and fearing for your own safety and so many others as well. We will certainly circle back and check in with you. We hope the situation gets better. Thank you. Weve got some breaking news. John The State Department now, briefing about the potential for sanctions against an idf unit that we were speaking about last week. And consultations and engagement with the government in israel. They have submitted Additional Information as it pertains to that unit. Throughout those conversations consistent with the memorandum of understanding that we have about the government of israel that was entered into in 2021. When conclusions are made under actions that fall under the auspices of the foreign resistances act, we are required to consult with officials from the government of israel. That is ongoing. We are engaging with them in that process. We will make an ultimate decision when it comes to that unit, when that process is complete. I would also want to note that the Remediation Standard is consistent. It is the same for all coun countries. When we ask of Host Governments in that situation is effective steps being taken taken, consistent with in their processes and systems to bring perceptive parties to justice. As it relates to the process, that is all of the update we will have for now. We will continue to engage with the government on that and have more to share. There doesnt seem to be a sense of urgency in the meantime. Is there a concern for a Palestinian Civilians exposed to these units . To the timing . I would 100 dispute the premise of that question. This is a deliberate process. It is a detailoriented process. It is a rigorous process. It is easy to sometimes want things to happen as quickly as possible. It is more important to ensure that these processes are happening in the most robust and rigorous rate possible. We are ultimately dealing with facts and we want to make sure that we can follow the facts and make sure we are appropriately engaging with appropriate stakeholders, including in this case, the government of israel. There is a clear process on this that we intend to follow. That is the same process for determining these things. The standards of which are consistent with all countries. I just want to follow up on what you have been saying about the standard being a typical process that you follow. And remediation being standard across the board. What is the Remediation Sta Standard . That is the point i was making. The standard of remediation is that these respective countries take effective steps to hold the Accountable Party to justice. That is different on a country by country basis. Im not going to be prescriptive of that on here including in this incident. Then it is not standard if you are saying it is different on a country by country basis. And a standard in the sense that we expect to see remediation. Each country in which we have a Security Relationship is different. There are different protocols and procedures in place and those respective countries. They can speak to about Accountability Measures they have. So you wont speak to about the process you are expecting to play out is how long. Correct, absolutely. Im not going to get into you t. Im sure we will have more to share in the time ahead. The secretary said 10 days ago that a determination of the front with israel had been made in that we would see results. I am wondering if the determination he made 10 days ago is this determination that you guys are making public or if the change due to engagement with israel. The gross violations of human rights. As it relates to this one particular unit, this process continues to be ongoing given this Additional Information that we are engaging with the government of israel, consistent with the memorandum of understanding that we have with them. No answer as to if it is changed. The determination, 10 days ago. What we were speaking of is the gross violations of human rights. That is what the secretary was alluding to. I will say that this process with the government of israel is ongoing as it relates to this one unit. Just to clarify where we are for the u. S. Government has concluded 5 different israeli units committed gross human rights violations. All of those units can continue to receive u. S. Arms, weapons, ammunition. 4 of those instances, we have seen remediation of those violations. That is of course what we expect of partners. Beyond that as it relates to this 50 unit, that is a process that is still ongoing. Since you have given me the opportunity, when we are talking about the law, what we are talking about is a unit with restrictions. John the deputy spokesperson that The State Department talking about the potential for sanctions against idf units who they accuse of gross human rights violations. The United States does. In particular was unit. It is an Orthodox Jewish unit operating in the west bank called the Netzah Yehuda battalion. It was believed that sanctions were going to be leveled against that unit. The Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu came up full force against that. It sounds like there were some Remediation Efforts that were put in place. They got 4 of the units out loud. They are still looking at the Netzah Yehuda battalion unit, sandra. It looks like they will not sanction them. Sandra we are going to take a quick break and have more on this information and more from The State Department as the briefing is ongoing. We will continue to monitor it. John. 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