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At Columbia, the president, Nemat Shafik, known as Minouche, had to call the police on campus to dislodge pro-Palestinian students from their camps and from university buildings where they had no business, Hamilton Hall in particular. About a hundred of them had been arrested: this somewhat disconcerted them, having been raised in the absence of contradiction and unable to accept being accused of harassing those they believe to be responsible for or approving of the war in the Middle East and who have only the "fault" of being Jewish.