“Students feel afraid.” The Columbia crisis worsens as unrest persists and tensions remain high.

Every US university is experiencing this. Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School who is Jewish, told the group of pro-Israel demonstrators that “Jews are not safe anywhere on college campuses.”

Last Monday, representatives from Columbia said that Davidai was the subject of a harassment probe. According to CNN, Davidai has never specifically attacked students—only “pro-Hamas” student organizations and academics.

On Monday, a few more Columbia faculty members gave brief addresses on campus endorsing the student protests and denouncing the previous week’s suppression.

Professor of Columbia history Christopher Brown remarked, “The president’s decision to send riot police to pick up peaceful protesters on our campus was unprecedented, unjustified, disproportionate, divisive and dangerous.” “In Columbia history, Thursday, April 18, 2024, will be regarded as a shameful day.”

Tensions extended to NYU and Yale

According to The Yale Daily News, the independent college newspaper for the university, at least 45 people, including some students, had been arrested at Yale University after police barred entrances in response to a protest at Hewitt Quadrangle & Beinecke Plaza on Monday morning.

“On the third night of their continuous encampment, pro-Palestine demonstrators demanding Yale divest from military weaponry manufacturers set up tents at Beinecke Plaza, where law enforcement has assembled,” the Yale Daily News said.

Reports state that the Yale Daily News journalists were also threatened with arrest if they remained in the plaza.

For further information, CNN has contacted the administration of Yale University, the Yale Police Department, and the New Haven Police Department in Connecticut.

On Monday, pro-Palestinian demonstrators numbered in the hundreds outside NYU’s Stern School of Business, while some pro-Israel students were across the street waving Israeli flags.