This petition protests the refusal of the state of Israel to permit entry to Professor Katherine Franke of Columbia University. Franke arrived to meet with Israeli and Palestinian colleagues. She was interrogated for 14 hours before being sent back to NY and told she was barred from entry. We adamantly oppose the creation of a Columbia Global Center in Israel, particularly, though not only, because many members of the Columbia community would be denied entry to Israel because of their speech, or their academic and political work. This denial is in violation of Columbia’s core values, and Columbia must similarly deny to support, through association, such actions.