Columbia University identifies 2 more activists who disrupted Israeli professor’s class

Columbia University in New York City says it has identified two activists who disrupted an Israeli professor’s class last week.

Masked anti-Israel activists barged into Professor Avi Shilon’s class on modern Israeli history last week, on the first day of the spring semester, accusing the lesson of fomenting “genocide.” The university said last week that it had identified one of the protesters, a “Columbia participant.”

The university says in a statement that its investigation into the incident has identified two more of the activists. The protesters are not Columbia students, but “from an affiliated institution,” the statement says.

The protesters have been barred from Columbia’s campus and “referred to their home institution for further investigation and discipline,” the university says.