Tag: Columbia University
Columbia University reaches settlement in federal Jew-hatred lawsuit
The agreement, reached Feb. 27, resolves claims brought by Students Against Antisemitism, SCLJ and a majority of the student plaintiffs in Students Against Antisemitism, Inc. et al. v. Trustees of Columbia University in the...
ISGAP Rejects Columbia University’s Denial of Findings on Qatari Funding and Calls for Full...
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) rejects Columbia University’s dismissal of ISGAP’s research into undisclosed Qatari-linked funding and has called on the University to publicly disclose all foreign-sourced funding,...
Jewish employees of Columbia eligible for settlement money, federal agency says
Andrea Lucas, who heads the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, told the Columbia Daily Spectator, a student paper, that Jewish employees at Columbia University are eligible to receive money from the commission’s...
Columbia University lays off 180 after Trump cuts federal grants
Columbia University is laying off 180 employees following the loss of $400 million in federal funding, cut by the Trump administration in March over the school’s failure to address campus Jew-hatred, the university announced on Tuesday.
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Trump admin seeking judicial consent decree at Columbia over Jew-hatred
The Trump administration is seeking to put Columbia University’s agreement to combat antisemitism under the oversight of a federal judge, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Lawyers in the Department of Justice’s antisemitism taskforce are reportedly seeking...
Can progressive-dominated institutions that enable antisemitism be saved?
Faith in humankind and its ability, despite missteps and temporary detours, to march on an inevitable path toward progress rests at the heart of classical liberalism. However, American institutions such as universities, which were...
Trump’s war on woke universities is essential to fighting antisemitism
In demonstrations at Columbia University and Trump Tower in New York City, as well as on the op-ed pages of liberal newspapers and websites, leftist anti-Zionists headed to the barricades this past week, both...
Columbia says it expelled some anti-Israel students, revoked degrees, issued multi-year suspensions
Columbia University announced on Thursday that it had disciplined students who occupied the Ivy League school’s Hamilton Hall last spring with measures including “multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations and expulsions.”
“The return of suspended students will be...
Democrats still wobbly on antisemitism
As the Trump administration takes an aggressive stand against antisemitism by withdrawing $400 million in grants from Columbia University, seeking to deport a pro-Hamas leader of campus protests at Columbia in the United States...
Federal agents arrest former Columbia student, who led protests
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, coordinating with the U.S. State Department, arrested Mahmoud Khalil, who completed his graduate studies at Columbia University in December, "in support of President Trump's executive orders prohibiting antisemitism,"...