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| Police and activists clash on Atlanta campus amid Gaza protests - BBC News | Police and activists clash on Atlanta campus amid Gaza protests - BBC News |
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| Bernd Debusmann Jr | |
| Reporting from Columbia | |
| I just spoke to Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar, a vocal critic of Israel whose daughter was suspended from Barnard College last week after being arrested at a demonstration. | |
| In response to a question from the BBC, Omar said she believes it was Columbia's move a week ago to authorise police to clear the encampment that ultimately led to the spread of the protests nationwide. | |
| "This is a movement that started with only 70 students," she said. | |
| "And because Columbia University decided to crack down on them and violate their first amendment, this has now spread nationally and internationally." | |
| She spoke after apparently leading a prayer with protesters on Columbia's campus. | |
| Some of the demonsrators held up towels to obscure BBC reporters' view of what was happening. | |
| In 2019 the congresswoman apologised after tweeting that US support for Israel was "all about the Benjamins baby", a slang term for $100 bills, a post that drew accusations of antisemitism. | |
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