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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-   
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