Columbia protesters refuse to discuss taking down tents as negotiations continue | 26 April 2024 | The organizers of the anti-Israel[i war with Gaza] encampment at Columbia University are refusing to consider taking down the tents until the administration makes progress on some of its demands. "We are not actually negotiating on the state of the encampment as of now," Columbia University Apartheid Divest negotiator Mahmoud Khalil told The Post Friday afternoon. The encampment was on its tenth day Friday, as the university's leaders seemed to backtrack on its demand for the students to clear off the campus lawn by that morning following an extension from Wednesday at midnight. Speaking to The Post on Friday, Khalil said the students were not given a new time limit for getting off the lawn.