Mondoweiss spoke with Columbia student Zainab Khan who witnessed the chemical attack on pro-Palestine protesters. “After the other day, I totally believe that an IOF soldier could physically harm one of our protesters or, God forbid, even kill them.”
On January 19, a protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza was attacked by counter-protesters using the chemical agent, known as “Skunk.” The university bears full responsibility for all violence against the pro-Palestine movement on campus.
The Columbia University Apartheid Divest Coalition demands President Minouche Shafik stop demonizing Palestine advocacy on campus and end Columbia’s complicity in the Gaza Genocide.
A statement by 18 Columbia University deans amounts to a new norm prohibiting Palestinian political aspirations in favor of privileging a politics of feeling to protect those who feel threatened by Palestinian freedom.
Michael Arria talks to Ryan Grim about The Squad vs. the Israel Lobby, and students at Columbia University fight pro-Palestine censorship.
More than 40 Columbia University student groups have formed a coalition to demand the school divest from Israeli apartheid. The move comes just days after the university suspended Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace from campus.
The New York Times focuses on pro-Israel Jewish students’ unfounded concerns over protest slogans rather than the fact Palestine solidarity organizations are being banned on campus.
Columbia University announced it is suspending the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for the remainder of the fall term.
Columbia University’s plans to open a learning center in Israel is being criticized by faculty members.
In an article characterizing pro-Palestinian campus activists as “strident” and given to hatred and orthodoxy, the New York Times leaves out any substantive, visceral description of the crimes that motivate these activists: recent apartheid declarations by a leading Israeli human rights group and the Columbia College student body.