Jewish students shelter in NY college library as demonstrators pound on doors, shout ‘free Palestine’

Jewish students in a library at Cooper Union college in New York as demonstrators outside pound on the doors and chant 'Free Palestine,' October 26, 2023. (X sreenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Jewish students in a library at Cooper Union college in New York as demonstrators outside pound on the doors and chant 'Free Palestine,' October 26, 2023. (X sreenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A group of Jewish students take shelter in a library at Cooper Union in New York as a group of demonstrators loudly chant “free Palestine” outside.

In video from the college, the Jewish students can be seen in the library as those outside pound on the doors and repeatedly shout, “free Palestine.”

According to New York police, the Jewish students were safely escorted from the library.

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