Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Stage Sit-in at Barnard Over Expulsions

Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators barged into Milbank Hall on Barnard College’s Manhattan campus on Wednesday and staged a sit-in over the expulsion of two students who interrupted a class on Israel, sparking a showdown with Barnard’s administration. The masked protesters pushed past a security guard as they entered the building about 4 p.m., video that they shot showed, with the goal of occupying the area outside Dean Leslie Grinage’s office.

A college spokeswoman said in a statement that the protesters had “physically assaulted a Barnard employee, sending them to the hospital” as they entered the building. A Police Department spokesman said that a 41-year-old man had been taken by ambulance to Mt. Sinai Morningside Hospital at 4:08 p.m. complaining of “pain about the body” and was in stable condition.