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Columbia University interim president Katrina Armstrong on Tuesday strongly denied a Wall Street Journal report which said that she privately told faculty that school officials misled the Trump administration to believe that they had accepted its conditions for restoring $400 million in federal…
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The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and three of its local chapters have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to halt deportation proceedings involving expatriate pro-Hamas activists enrolled in American institutions of higher education, arguing that the allegedly seditious…
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As it unfurls, the saga of Mahmoud Khalil—the Columbia agitator picked up by immigration enforcement last week—looks less like a complicated immigration-law dispute and more like something out of a John le Carré novel. But inspect the details, and Khalil’s…
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The field of modern Middle Eastern studies was born at Columbia University in the 1970s under the influence of Edward Said, the prominent Palestinian-American literature scholar and political activist. Now, the discipline as it currently exists may die there, too,…
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Isra Hirsi, the daughter of “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), championed a fundraiser supporting Mahmoud Khalil, the student activist and foreign national facing deportation by the Trump administration over his pro-Hamas campus organizing. The online fundraiser was launched after ICE…
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Columbia University has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring and temporarily revoked the diplomas of others who have since graduated, officials said Thursday. The university said in a campus-wide email that a…
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The Trump administration yanked roughly $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University on Friday, citing the Ivy League school’s noncompliance with anti-discrimination laws. A federal antisemitism task force — convened by President Trump and including the Departments of Justice, Health and…
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The first full month of the Trump Administration has proven consequential for addressing BDS and antisemitism. Universities and corporations continue to adjust their operations to appear in compliance with Executive Orders regarding DEI and discrimination, but lawsuits and expressions of…
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A Columbia University instructor who defended last spring’s illegal pro-Hamas encampments canceled his classes Thursday so students could attend an anti-Israel protest—one day after radicals stormed a campus building at Columbia’s sister school, Barnard College. A source with knowledge of…
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Left-wing radicals have made a habit of chanting “death to America” and “glory to the resistance” led by Iran and its terrorist proxies. The First Amendment protects their right to do so, and it should. But it doesn’t protect them…
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