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New York — Columbia University backed off late Thursday from an overnight deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon an encampment there as more college campuses in the United States sought to prevent occupations from taking hold.
Police have carried out large-scale arrests in universities across the country, at times using chemical irritants and tasers to disperse protests over Israel’s war with Hamas.
The office of New York-based Columbia University President Minouche Shafik issued a statement at 11:07 p.m. (0307 GMT Friday) retreating from a midnight deadline to dismantle a large tent camp with around 200 students.
“The talks have shown progress and are continuing as planned,” the statement said. “We have our demands; they have theirs.”
The statement denied that New York City police were invited on the campus. “This rumor is false,” it said.
A student, identifying herself only as Mimi, told AFP she had been at the camp for seven days.
“They call us terrorists, they call us violent. But the only tool we actually have are our voices,” she said.
Student protesters say they are expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, where the death toll has topped 34,305, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.
More than 200 people protesting the war were arrested Wednesday and early Thursday at universities in Los Angeles, Boston and Austin, Texas, where around 2,000 people gathered again Thursday.
Riot officers in the southern state of Georgia used chemical irritants and tasers to disperse protests at Emory University in Atlanta.
Photographs showed police wielding tasers as they wrestled with protesters on neatly manicured lawns.
The Atlanta Police Department said officers responding to the school’s request for help were “met with violence” and used “chemical irritants” in their response.
The spreading protests began at Columbia University, which has remained the epicenter of the student protest movement.
Free speech?
The protests pose a major challenge to university administrators who are trying to balance campus commitments to free expression with complaints that the rallies have crossed a line.
Pro-Israel supporters and others worried about campus safety have pointed to antisemitic incidents and allege that campuses are encouraging intimidation and hate speech.
“I’ve never felt more scared to be a Jew in America right now,” said Skyler Sieradsky, a 21-year-old student of philosophy and political science at George Washington University.
“There are students and faculty standing by messages of hate, and standing by messages that call for violence.”
Demonstrators, who include a number of Jewish students, have disavowed antisemitism and criticized officials equating it with opposition to Israel.
“People are here in support of Palestinian people from all different backgrounds… (compelled by) their general sense of justice,” a 33-year-old graduate student at the University of Texas, Austin, who said he was Jewish and gave his name as Josh, told AFP.
U.S. ally Israel launched its war in Gaza after the Hamas attack on October 7 that left around 1,170 people dead, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Hamas militants also took roughly 250 people hostage. Israel estimates 129 remain in Gaza, including 34 presumed dead.
Coast to coast
At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 93 people were arrested for trespassing on Wednesday, authorities said they were canceling events at the May 10 graduation ceremony.
The ceremony, which usually attracts 65,000 people, made headlines this month when administrators canceled a planned speech by a top student after complaints from Jewish groups that she had links to antisemitic groups. She denied the charge.
At Emerson College in Boston, local media reported classes were canceled Thursday after police clashed with protesters overnight, tearing down a pro-Palestinian encampment and arresting 108 people.
In Washington, students from Georgetown and George Washington University (GW) established a solidarity encampment on the GW campus Thursday.
Protests and encampments have also sprung up at New York University and Yale — both of which also saw dozens of students arrested earlier this week — Harvard, Brown University, MIT, the University of Michigan and elsewhere.
California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt said its campus could remain closed into next week due to protesters occupying buildings.
On Sunday, U.S. President Joe Biden denounced “blatant antisemitism” that has “no place on college campuses.”
But the White House has also said the president supports freedom of expression at U.S. universities.
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A ransomware attack on a Swedish logistics company Skanlog severely impacted the country’s liquor supply.
Skanlog, a critical distributor for Systembolaget, the Swedish government-owned retail chain suffered a ransomware attack. Systembolaget has a monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages containing more than 3.5% alcohol by volume. It operates stores across Sweden and is responsible for the retail sale of wine, spirits, and strong beer.
“It affects about 15% of our sales volume. Wine and liquor most of all,” Sofia Sjöman Waas, a press officer at Systembolaget, told Euronews Next. “We are accustomed to handling small to large scales of disruptions even though they are rarely on this scale,” Waas added. “We have many other items delivered to us as usual via other distributors. Therefore, there will continuously be many alternatives available at our stores,”
Mona Zuko, Skanlog’s chief executive, attributed the cyber attack to a North Korean ransomware gang.
“We have been centrally attacked by a cyber attack, which has caused our entire system to be down until we can fix it and get it back up,” Skanlog’s Swedish CEO Mona Zuko told local newspaper Dagens Industri.
“Our systems, including our central business system, have been affected by the attack. We use a Microsoft financial system, and an inventory system called Dynaman which is critical to our operations.”
Due to the cyber attack’s impact on the logistics company, the media reported it may be difficult to get hold of alcoholic beverages this weekend. Skanlog spokesman warned that certain alcoholic beverages could be sold out within a few days.
SCMagazine reported that Systembolaget, in response to Skanlog’s uncertainty about restoring its operations, plans to implement a backup procedure to address potential delays in deliveries. This decision comes as a precautionary measure to ensure continuity in the distribution of alcoholic beverages.
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Soiled rivers and seas, and huge dividends for shareholders: this is how water companies massage their figures
So that’s how they do it. I’d been wondering how, when more sewage has been entering our rivers than ever before, some of the water companies have managed to improve the ratio of the sewage they treat v the sewage that pours untreated from their storm overflows into our rivers and the sea. Now we know.
It’s called “flow trimming”. Sounds innocuous, doesn’t it? What it means is that sewage is diverted into rivers and ditches upstream of the water treatment works. By reducing the amount of sewage entering the works, the companies can claim to be dealing responsibly with a higher proportion of it.
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