(Jewish Group) Columbia University affiliate expels students for class disruption, pro-Palestinian protest

Barnard college, an affiliate of Columbia University in New York, reportedly expelled two students last week for disrupting a session of the class "History of Modern Israel."

The Barnard students, both seniors in their last semester of undergraduate studies, banged on drums while chanting "free Palestine'' and distributed flyers with the phrase "CRUSH ZIONISM" and a depiction of a boot over the Star of David, according to Jewish Insider.

A Columbia University student was also involved in the protest and has since been suspended and barred from campus, the university said in a press release last month.

The history course is being run by Columbia, and the disturbance occurred on the first day of spring semester classes for both schools, according to the student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest.

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