Recentering Palestine, reclaiming the movement
The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition is a collective of Palestinian student organizers who wish to reclaim the pro-Palestinian student movement and recenter Palestine at Columbia University.
The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition is a collective of Palestinian student organizers who wish to reclaim the pro-Palestinian student movement and recenter Palestine at Columbia University.
To President Shafik: “We write as Jewish faculty of Columbia and Barnard in anticipation of your appearance before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on April 17, where you are expected to answer questions about antisemitism on campus. Based on the committee’s previous hearings, we are gravely concerned about the false narratives that frame these proceedings to entrap witnesses. We urge you, as the University president, to defend our shared commitment to universities as sites of learning, critical thinking, and knowledge production against this new McCarthyism.”
Columbia initially suspended six students on Wednesday night, but lifted two suspensions on Thursday.
We, as a community, need to celebrate that the administration finally backtracked from its blatant attempt to suppress academic freedom.
Interim University Provost Dennis Mitchell’s announcement came after numerous students said they were sprayed with a foul-smelling chemical at a Friday rally.