Pro-Palestine protesters at Columbia Uni ignore deadline to disband
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Pro-Palestine protests have been taking hold at university campuses across America.Yesterday, students at Columbia University, where the movement first started, were given a deadline to dismantle their encampment by the university's president. The deadline has now been extended as protesters refuse to back down so what can we expect next? Guest: Bassam Khawaja, Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic, at Columbia Law School 
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