It’s going to be an interesting Alumni Weekend at Columbia University, where pro-Palestine student protestors have once again reestablished an encampment on the school’s lawn.This comes after the NYPD cleared out the protest encampment at the start of May,

Pro-Palestinian protesters returned to Columbia University’s campus on Friday evening to retake the school’s South Lawn just weeks after dramatic action by the NYPD to clear the grounds. Protesters returned to the lawn for the first time in weeks with a number of tents and banners in the middle of the university’s alumni weekend.

Roughly 100 Columbia University students and alumni launched a “Revolt for Rafah” encampment on Friday night. Student protesters say their protest is a direct response to the Rafah massacre and a recent Washington Post article exposing a group of wealthy elites who used their power to influence New York City Mayor Eric Adams into using the police to quash student protests at Columbia University in April.

The embattled president is facing growing dissent from faculty over her handling of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus and the involvement of police.

Just weeks after police stormed a student-led occupation at Columbia University, a cohort of protesters set up a new camp on the same lawn Friday during an alumni reunion, calling on college graduates to withhold donations until Columbia divests from Israel.

In response to Israel’s campaign in Rafah, students at the school began another tent village to disrupt alumni weekend.