University Professors Are Losing Their Jobs Over “New McCarthyism” on Gaza

Columbia University professors demonstrate outside the Columbia campus demanding the release of students, in New York City on May 1, 2024. Hundreds of people were arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses as police on May 1 extended a crackdown that included clearing out demonstrators occupying a building at Columbia University in New York. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

As brutal police repression sweeps campus encampments, schools have been cutting ties with pro-Palestine faculty members without tenure.

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