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From: screw.israel@splcenter.org

A notorious professional protester with past ties to multiple
controversial anti-Israel efforts was spotted among the rioters who broke
into a Columbia University building and occupied it this week, according
to police.

Lisa Fithian, 63, was captured in footage taken outside Hamilton Hall — an
academic building on the Ivy League’s Morningside Heights campus that
protesters, some of them masked, stormed the around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

A lifelong agitator, Fithian in the mid-2010s was raking in $300 per day
training unions and other activist groups in the basics of demonstration
and disruption, Mother Jones reported in 2012.

She has frequently thrown her energies behind pro-Palestinian causes — and
even celebrated her birthday earlier this month in Istanbul, Turkey, where
she was “training the participants on the next Flotilla to Gaza in the
coming week,” according to an Instagram post.

“It is long past time for this violent Israeli Occupation to end,” Fithian
said in a 2018 profile for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

“This hateful Israeli occupation of Palestine is not only doing harm and
causing death for the Palestinians, it is harming the water, the land and
the soul of the Israelis,” she insisted, adding that a “global wave rising
for justice will not cease until Palestine is free.”

https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/professional-protester-lisa-
fithians-past-ties-to-anti-israel-work/

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