The drums have been beating for nearly a fortnight at Manhattan’s Columbia University, the noise reverberating around the campus of one of America’s most prestigious seats of learning.It is energising some students and academics but putting others on edge, for the drums are the accompaniment to ceaseless chants about the virtues of the Palestinian cause and the wickedness of ‘colonial’ .Protesters insist they are demanding only peace in and an end to the humanitarian crisis there, and complain that anti-Zionism shouldn’t be confused with anti-Semitism. However, many of the slogans and placards tell a very different story: ‘Brick by brick, wall by wall, Israel will fall’; ‘There is only one solution, intifada revolution’; ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ and ‘By any means necessary’.
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