Tag: Columbia University
Yale police arrest 47 anti-Israel protesters as ‘Gaza solidarity encampments’ spread
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...
Columbia-Barnard rabbi tells Jewish students to stay home for safety
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 suspends four students for holding event featuring PFLP member
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...
Columbia university president to testify about campus antisemitism
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...
New policy at Barnard bans decorations on dorm-room doors
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...
Palestinians ‘punished’ for German, US crimes, says Columbia, Adelphi lecturer
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...
“University” arguments and the Palestinian-Israeli reality
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...
Columbia University suspends SJP, JVP chapters
Columbia University released a statement announcing consequences for student chapters of two organizations leading organizing protests across the country in support of the Hamas terrorist organization that rules the Gaza Strip.
Gerald Rosberg, senior executive vice president...
Columbia University students to vote on BDS referendum
Students at Columbia University in New York City are scheduled to vote this week on a referendum over whether the school should “divest its stocks, funds and endowment from companies that profit from or...
May 7, 1912: Columbia University approved plans to award the first Pulitzer Prizes on...
Columbia University approved plans to award the first Pulitzer Prizes on this date in 1912, one year after the death of Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-born Jewish journalist and newspaper publisher who left a $2...