- The Columbia University janitors who were held hostage during the violent takeover of a campus building last spring are suing their alleged captors for battery, assault, and conspiracy to violate their civil rights.
- The suit alleges that over 40 Columbia students and âoutside agitatorsâ held the janitors against their will, assaulted and battered them, and derided them as âJew-loversâ and âZionists.â
- The âoccupiersâ named in Torres and Wilsonâs lawsuit include leaders of Columbiaâs most vocal anti-Israel groups, such as the Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace. Read More