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#columbia

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RememberUsAlways

The university's Judicial Board (UJB) issued sanctions to students that ranged from "multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocation and expulsions", the school said in a statement on Thursday.
#Columbia
A campus-wide email sent indicated the university issued these sanctions against dozens of students, the BBC's US news partner CBS reported.
#freepalestine
#alleyesonrafah
#genocidejoe
#genocide
#zionist
#falseflag
bbc.com/news/articles/c0rz4eqx

Student protesters move supplies from outside Hamilton Hall, where students at Columbia University barricaded themselves to protest in support of Palestinians
www.bbc.comColumbia University suspends and expels pro-Palestinian students who occupied buildingThe university disciplines protesters after a threat from US President Donald Trump to withhold funding.
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DrALJONES

Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.

Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"

Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.

aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730

#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .

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zionist thug at columbia encampment
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DrALJONES

Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.

Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"

Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.

aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730

#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .

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zionist thug at student encampment
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Heretical_i

300 barged. Looks to be a few thousand barger backers.😎

'...organizers and supporters of the group (Jewish Voice for Peace) risked arrest Thursday as they assembled in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, demanding the release of #ColumbiaUniversity graduate #MahmoudKhalil.'

"Jewish-Americans and Allies Occupy #Trump Tower Demanding Release of Mahmoud Khalil"
scheerpost.com/2025/03/14/jewi #Columbia #deportation #freespeech #Palestine #palestinians #gaza #genocide @palestine

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Aaron

On March 7, the fascist rulers of the US cancelled $400m in grants & contracts with #ColumbiaUniversity.

On March 8, lawful permanent resident & green card holder Mahmoud Khalil was temporarily disappeared/ illegally detained by ICE for his lawful speech.

By March 14, #Columbia expelled students & revoked degrees for anti-genocide protesters & further ICE repression of speech occurred.

Columbia was a test case showing that supposedly-upstanding US institutions will bend the knee to #fascism.

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Diligence Jones

Columbia FUBAR'd the Gaza protests by treating protesters like criminals and making them vulnerable to absolutely illegal detention (as we see in the Khalil case);

They prematurely aligned with law enforcement, so now they can't/ won't intervene when ICE/DHS oversteps.

They cooperated with that sham of a Senate hearing, and now they're getting their funding yanked, and the government wants to make them a propaganda arm.

Good job, #Columbia. You're fucked.

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Joshua Holland

This piece quotes offensive statements made by other Gaza protestors but not a single word uttered by Khalil. And certainly no deeds.

A curious omission given her thesis that while his views are odious they’re nonetheless protected by the first amendment.

#khalil #fascism #trump #columbia #gaza #media
thebulwark.com/p/mahmoud-khali

www.thebulwark.comMahmoud Khalil Has Rights, DammitI can’t defend what he said, but I defend his right to say it.
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Anthony
From the Harvard Crimson:
Over the last week, the Trump administration has cancelled $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University and $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University.

So far, America’s leading universities have remained virtually silent in the face of this authoritarian assault on institutions of higher education. That must change. Harvard must stand up, speak out, and lead a public defense of our freedom to speak and study freely.
Columbia made an attempt to pre-emptively please this administration, and they were still made to suffer. That's how this works. Laying low and/or cooperating does not help:
Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Columbia’s leadership made repeated concessions to right-wing critics, only to be the first to come under attack.
From https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/14/enos-levitsky-harvard-columbia-trump/ (be aware: the title evokes the Holocaust, which in this context is not great).

#USPol #Universities #Columbia #authoritarianism #HigherEducation #education #maine
www.thecrimson.comFirst They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard CrimsonWe must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
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Weltschmerz à Gogo

Several years ago, there was a whole public debate in the US about whether or not the universities where Richard Spencer got his BA and MA should revoke those degrees. That discussion particularly focused on the University of Virginia, where he got his BA and where the Unite the Right tiki torch march took place, threatening and intimidating a number of then-current students on campus. This is also the same Richard Spencer who has repeatedly been recorded on video giving Nazi salutes, who was infamously caught on tape using all kinds of racist and antisemitic language while ranting about the failure of Unite the Right, and who told his supporters to “party like it’s 1933” after Trump was elected the first time.

An array of college administrators across the country shot down the idea citing a “slippery slope”, academic freedom and whatnot.

Any one of those administrators who now fails to speak out against the revocation of Columbia grads’ diplomas for protesting on campus should lose their jobs and become permanently unemployable. They clearly don’t actually care about antisemitism or academic freedom and they aren’t at all concerned about a slippery slope. They just care about their careers and sucking up to whoever’s got more power than they do.

apnews.com/article/columbia-un

#Columbia#academia#antisemitism
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PrivacyDigest

#AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says

A new study from #Columbia #Journalism Review's Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with #generativeAI models used for news searches. The research tested eight AI-driven search tools equipped with live search functionality and discovered that the #AI models incorrectly answered more than 60 percent of queries about news sources
#cjr #cjrstudy

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-

A dartboard with only a few darts hitting it, with many misses beside it.
Ars Technica · AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study saysBy Benj Edwards
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Chuck Darwin

As the Trump administration’s effort to deport #Mahmoud #Khalil sparks legal battles and demonstrations,
#Columbia #University announced Thursday that it has
👉revoked degrees from some other pro-Palestinian campus protesters.
A campuswide email reported by The Associated Press says that “the Columbia University Judicial Board determined findings and issued sanctions to students
ranging from multiyear suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring.”
commondreams.org/news/columbia

Common Dreams · Columbia Yanks Degrees From Pro-Palestine Protesters Amid Outrage Over Khalil Arrest | Common DreamsThe impacted students and graduates are accused of participating in the occupation of a university building that protesters renamed in honor of a child killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
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Sam Chavez

Breaking News: Khalil Mahmoud is suing Columbia University.

He is listed amongts Columbia and Barnard students in a lawsuit against Columbia University to stop the release of student records and private information to the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

This is the canary in the coal mine. Every decent person should reject the GOPs suppression of free speech.
#khalil #columbia #PalestinianRights #antisemitism #1stAmendment

storage.courtlistener.com/reca

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Paria sans portefeuille

"The obvious reason the #Trump administration is making an example of #Columbia is the #GazaProtests of last spring, which began on Morningside Heights and spread at warp speed around the nation. But the government is also using its anti-Palestinian crackdown as an excuse to fulfill another one of its cherished goals: to crush the influence of prestigious universities."

thenation.com/article/society/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #ColumbiaU #PalestineSolidarity #USpol #USpolitics #StudentProtests @palestine

The Nation · Columbia Is Betraying Its Students. We Must Change Course.The administration is choosing complicity over courage in the case of Mahmoud Khalil. It’s time for the faculty to demand a new path.
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