Tag: Columbia University

Less than half of the pro-Hamas protesters arrested at New York University last week after refusing to vacate the campus were members of the academic institution, the university said on Wednesday. Of the 133 protesters...

The head of the Anti-Defamation League on Saturday called on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to apologize after she accused some Jewish students of being “pro-genocide” in a statement on antisemitism. “It is patently false and...

A Columbia University student and a leader of the antisemitic protests on campus is seeking to provide “context” to a statement he made that Zionists don’t deserve to live. “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” Khymani James said....

Yale University police arrested 47 anti-Israel protesters for trespassing on Monday morning, as “Gaza solidarity encampments” continue to disrupt college campuses across the country. After the arrests in New Haven, hundreds of students continued to...

Rabbi Elie Buechler, who co-directs the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) for Columbia University and Barnard College, told Jewish students on Sunday to stay home until the campus environment improves. “What we...

Columbia University, which has seen some of the highest levels of antisemitic disruptions on campus since Oct. 7 and the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, announced punishment last week for students who have breached school policy. Four students...

Nemat (“Minouche”) Shafik, the president of Columbia University in New York City, escaped the grilling that the leaders of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania endured when speaking...

Students attending New York City’s Barnard College will need to find ways to express themselves other than affixing photos or messages on the doors of their dormitories. Leslie Grinage, the school’s dean, sent out a letter on...

Anthony Zenkus is a “racial justice, income inequality and climate justice” activist, who was “trained by vice president Al Gore as a presenter in his Climate Reality Project, and has been an organizer with...

The Columbia Faculty Letter, signed with what may look like an impressive long list of faculty personnel, also uses other forms of validation: the claim that many other 'governments and non- governmental institutions' would...