Ahead of Congressional Testimony, Columbia President Cracks Down on Student Advocacy for Palestine
Columbia, Vanderbilt, and Pomona College all seriously disciplined students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza this month.
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Columbia, Vanderbilt, and Pomona College all seriously disciplined students protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza this month.
“The suspensions happened immediately and it was without any due process.”
“There’s a very good chance that they will fire me,” said Katherine Franke, a tenured professor who has defended students protesting for Gaza.
The students said police trained guns on them and refused to provide their names or badge numbers.
At least seven schools have reached an agreement with students around investment transparency and exploring divestment from Israel.
The school later told staff it had provided the Trump administration with personal contact information for faculty members.
A complaint to Connecticut’s attorney general says Yale’s endowment is also violating its own investment ethics policies.
As Trump targets his critics on the left, Sunrise says it needs to battle authoritarianism to protect the climate.
It’s illegal to deport people for political speech, but that’s exactly what ICE is trying to do to this Palestinian Columbia student.
By moving the campus activist to a new jurisdiction, ICE disrupted court proceedings and limited his legal access, his attorneys say.
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