The tent-camps and building takeovers may have ended last spring when students returned home for summer, but the start of a new academic year means all of these activists are back and are once again trying to influence their peers. That will be more difficult at Columbia and NYU after Instagram deleted the accounts of two pro-Palestinian student groups.
Columbia University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine said on Monday that its Instagram account had been removed. The group said on X that it had 124,000 followers and that a new Instagram page it set up was also quickly taken down.
A day later, the People’s Solidarity Coalition at New York University said its Instagram page had been suspended.
Anti-Israel activists around the city lashed Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, accusing it of unfair treatment. Columbia SJP said it had been…
