Tensions simmer – but don’t boil over – as Columbia students return to campus

Smaller pro-Palestinian protests continue in new semester amid ramped-up security, but chaos of spring has faded

Columbia University students returned to campus this week under the specter of the mass protests that disrupted campus life last semester. But while actions against the Gaza war continue, the first days of class saw little of the last school year's chaos.

On Wednesday, a group of about 30 students gathered for a sit-in protest outside a class Hillary Clinton teaches at the School of International and Public Affairs building, chanting intifada revolution" and Zionists not welcome here".