A lecturer at Columbia University Professor Bassam Khawaja has said that several faculty members are “really furious” over the arrest of more than 100 pro-Palestine protesters who gathered at the school’s campus in New York City. Al Jazeera reports.

Khawaja said that when the university president decided to call the police onto campus, despite the university senate’s objection, many faculty members were “furious”.

“One hundred of us came to and stood on the steps to protest this decision, [and] 54 members of the law school’s permanent faculty wrote to the president objecting to it,” he told Al Jazeera.

“So, there’s quite a bit of anger among the faculty,” he said.

“Anti-Semitism has no place on our campus […] we need to be clear that advocating for Palestinian rights is not itself anti-Semitic,” he added.