Tag: Columbia University
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...
70-plus faculty members thank Columbia university president for battling BDS vote
More than 70 Columbia faculty members have signed a letter thanking university president Lee Bollinger for expressing opposition ahead of an undergraduate student referendum next month calling on the university to divest from companies doing business in Israel.
The 74...
Columbia celebrates anti-Semitism
There are very few Jews in Malaysia. I know because I checked with the intelligence community—or at least, looked it up in the CIA World Factbook. But my point is that even though Malaysia...
Pro-Israel Columbia student questions Malaysian premier about Holocaust denial
A member of the college campus group Students Supporting Israel confronted Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad during his controversial Columbia University speech on Wednesday about the leader questioning the number of Jews killed in...