James L. Dohr Professor of Law (retired) at Columbia University, and author of Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition
New York, USA
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Really? After three Palestinian-American students were shot in New Hampshire, you're coming back to doxx and defame our students? Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you.
TOMORROW: The Antisemitism Accountability Project will return to Columbia University (116th & Broadway) at 9:00am. See you there!
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President Minouche Shafik threw me under the bus when she testified before Congress, but I'm still an employee of Columbia University, she's not. Turns out that capitulating to the bullies didn't work out well for her. It never does.
Minouche Shafik Steps Down as President of Columbia University
president.columbia.edu/news/…
ALT Portrait of Minouche Shafik standing in an office with bookshelves in the background, wearing glasses and a professional white shirt with a dark blazer.
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I have filed an ethics complaint against @OuttenGolden, the law firm that I hired to represent me when @Columbia launched an unfounded & politicized investigation of me because I condemned violent attacks ag pro-Palestinian student protesters on our campus.
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Facts: a Columbia student who sprayed peaceful protesters w/ a noxious gas, putting sev'l of them in the hospital, was paid $400,000 by Columbia, yet peaceful protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza now risk having their visas revoked as supporting terror. World upside down.
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Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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"I have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research at Columbia." ccrjustice.org/home/press-ce…
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In my view, @Columbia is a real estate holdings venture that tolerates academic classes as a side hustle. If it actually delivers on the threat to close down the campus & evict students & faculty, then it'll have merely excised the side hustle, revealing its true beating heart.
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The lawsuit filed ag @Columbia this week claims that Columbia has maintained an environment hostile to Jewish students. Peaceful student protests are described as "pro-Hamas mobs" & the evidence of my antisemitism includes that I am teaching a course on the history of Palestine.
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The President of @Columbia lied in her Congressional testimony on Wednesday. Several times. One of those times relates to comments I have made about the safety of our students at Columbia. Consider this a correction and a demand for an apology. 🧵
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My attorney at @OuttenGolden was so appalled by the unethical behavior of the firm, dropping me as a client for political reasons with no notice or explanation, that she quit the firm after being a partner for 24 years.
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I've never, I repeat, never seen a university voluntarily admit that it was violating federal anti-discrimination laws. It was one thing (a very bad thing) for @Columbia's president to capitulate to the zealots at the congressional hearing, but admitting a violation of Title VI?
April 30 statement from Ben Chang, University spokesperson. For the complete statement and further information, please visit the link: communications.news.columbia…
ALT White text on a gray background with an excerpt of a statement from University spokesperson Ben Chang. Please visit the link for the complete statement.
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Law firms bear a duty of loyalty to their clients when they agree to represent them, yet @OuttenGolden “fired” me as a client bec some of its partners were uncomfortable with my support for @Columbia students who had been attacked for supporting Palestinian rights.
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In case you don't know: @Columbia suspended students before a hearing or evidence of misconduct. The suspensions meant they had 24 hours to leave university housing, lost access to dining halls/food & to health care - never mind that they couldn't finish their classes.
Imagine being @Columbia and suspending your students because you think you can cow them into submission; and they release the following powerful statement: "My commitment to Palestinian liberation has only grown stronger."
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@OuttenGolden's own website boasts a commitment to "advance the goals of employees and protect their rights against injustices in the workplace," but they seem to have a Palestine exception to this commitment.
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How @OuttenGolden treated me is part of a larger profession-wide problem, a McCarthy-ite reprisal against anyone who defends the dignity and rights of Palestinians. In job interviews, firms are asking my law students: "Are you, or have you ever been, a defender of Palestinians?"
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How is the @columbia faculty responding to the abduction of #MahmoudKhalil by ICE?
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Leading legal ethics experts have condemned @OuttenGolden for dropping me, a client, "like a hot potato" when the clients' political views made some partners uncomfortable. Ethics experts view the firms' conduct as "contrary to foundational values of our profession."
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Read the ethics complaint, including @OuttenGolden's partners' internal emails instructing that they fire me as a client, and an ethics opinion arguing that the firm's conduct was blatantly unethical, here: drive.google.com/file/d/1PRW…
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For this reason, I felt it was important to link @OuttenGolden’s unethical conduct toward me to a wider problem in the legal profession, borne particularly by my law students.
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My law students are not in a position to publicly challenge law firms’ that punish them for their political views, whether it be calling for a cease fire, or talking about the ICJ’s finding that it is plausible that Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza.
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This is the 2nd time the university cancelled this event - ostensibly on security grounds. I'm standing outside the room where it was supposed to be held, there is no security issue here. Just a bunch of disappointed students who had expected to learn something abt intern'l law.
1 hour before this event with @OmarSShakir of @hrw was to take place at @ColumbiaLaw, the student organizers were told that the event was cancelled by the University, for failure to comply with a new event policy.
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@Columbia cancelled another #Palestine-focused event, this time one organized by Columbia Global Centers in Amman, Jordan. It was scheduled for this Thursday on "Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine”. 🧵1/3
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Unfortunately we have the same problem at @Columbia. The president created an anti-Semitism task force & then appointed a tax law prof who's a right wing zionist, not scholars who study anti-Semitism, to co-chair it. Still waiting for the promised Islamophobia task force ...
Why doesn't Harvard's new antisemitism task force include its own scholars who study antisemitism + Israel-Palestine? Because those scholars won't endorse a crackdown on pro-Palestinian free speech. Which is what big donors demand. jewishcurrents.org/harvard-i…
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My alma mater, @BarnardCollege, has not only abandoned a commitment to academic freedom, it has signed up to be part of the McCarthy-ite thought police. Tragically, this post would get me disciplined at @BarnardCollege.
New faculty guidelines from Barnard College at Columbia University. Professors are not allowed to post signs on their door "that support a geopolitical view or perspective". When talking about "geopolitical views or perspectives", faculty must talk about both sides.
ALT Some examples of activities that violate this community expectation include: Messaging from the president of Barnard College or any division or department supporting a geopolitical viewpoint or perspective while denigrating or remaining silent about an opposing geopolitical viewpoint or perspective. Employees posting signs on their office doors supporting a geopolitical viewpoint or perspective. Employees supporting a campaign for a candidate on their Barnard webpage profile.
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If this is true, I'm speechless. The protesters were still negotiating w/ the administration when Shafik called in the cops, yet the university chose, as it has at every other juncture, to escalate. There was no public safety emergency that justified the violence we saw.
SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.
thecity.nyc/2024/05/02/nypd-…
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When pro-Israeli students spray pro-Palestinian students with skunk water - sending a number of them to the hospital - @columbia President Minouche Shafik issues no public statement condemning the attack on our students.
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A must read: a group of distinguished Jewish faculty at @columbia and @barnardcollege have sent a letter to the University/College leadership raising serious concerns about Columbia's "Antisemitism Task Force"'s second report. Full letter here: drive.google.com/file/d/1EDo…
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Some'll say there's a lot to like abt @JoshShapiroPA as possible VP. Yet there are imp reasons to advise @KamalaHarris to go elsewhere. 1 reason, not noticed by most, is that he robustly defended PA's ban on Medicaid funding for abortion in 2022. The PA S.Ct. rules against him.
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Reflections from @Columbia on what it looks like when a university crosses over to be part of the apparatus of authoritarian power rather than committing to defending its mission.
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1 hour before this event with @OmarSShakir of @hrw was to take place at @ColumbiaLaw, the student organizers were told that the event was cancelled by the University, for failure to comply with a new event policy.
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I don't know how you watch this video and refuse to describe it a genocide. Then Trump suggests that the neighbors should "clean out" the area of Palestinians to make way for development - surely by Israelis. A clearer case of ethnic cleansing is impossible to find.
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I can't overstate how terrified members of our academic communities are now. The video of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student, being surrounded by MASKED ICE officers, cuffed and hauled away shakes me to my core. And then I passed ICE vehicles parked near our campus this morning ...
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We were able to get another sponsor for the event so it will still be on Thursday at 10:30am NY/6:30pm Amman. Please join us if you can. Speakers: Ardi Imseis @ArdiImseis Darryl Li @dcli Shahd Hammouri @shahdhm @ProfKFranke John Reynolds @SeanMac_R
& Nahed Samour. 3/3
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40,000+ Gazans killed since Oct, the int'l community, incl the ICJ, considers it to be a form of genocide, yet the US is doing nothing to end the massive killing of Palestinians, arming Israel instead. This genocide is being treated like climate change, terrible, but oh well.
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The panel promised to be a scholarly conversation abt the legacy of one of the most prominent scholars of our generation: Edward Said. Given that it was fully remote, it posed no security risk (real or imagined) to students on campus who might be uncomfortable w/ the topic. 2/3
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As I said on @democracynow last week: Israeli protesters in Tel Aviv can voice criticisms of their gov't that, if said by faculty or students at @Columbia or @BarnardCollege, would get them disciplined, suspended, or fired.
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Last time I wore a skirt was in 1994 when I interviewed for a teaching job at @UTexasLaw - the skirt didn't work, didn't get the job. The gov't's position in the #AimeeStephens case would allow employers to fire me bec I won't "dress like a girl", a huge retrenchment. #riseupoct8
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Proud to have been 1 among 1,000s at the @jvplive protest today that shut down the Manhattan Bridge in the name of Palestinian life, dignity, and sovereignty, and an end to the genocide in Gaza.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a painful & frank acct of what it must be like to grow up in Gaza living w/ violence personally & toward everyone you love on a daily basis, & says he hopes he would have the strength not to lash out against the oppressor. And this is the racist response:
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Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it. I explain it here: piped.video/shorts/W7Rr7d5Qg…
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“If you grovel before a bully, it just emboldens the bully. [Now] the bully has now become an authoritarian government with the capacity to act on a level that was unthinkable for us a couple of years ago.” theguardian.com/us-news/2025…
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It is such bad form for a professor to insult their students like this. I've been a professor 30+ years, and I both teach and learn from my students. BTW, @Columbia's students didn't protest @HillaryClinton bec they're ignorant but bec they have a reasoned disagreement with her.
Hillary Clinton criticizes pro-Palestinian protests and says many young people she’s spoken to “don't know very much at all about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, about history in many areas of the world.”
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Finally! @OmarSShakir is giving his talk at @ColumbiaLaw. Thank you Omar for your patience with two earlier cancellations of your talk.
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Now more than ever, universities should be protecting & defending their unique role in society as places that can generate and hold engagement with the complex histories and politics that lay below the surface of the current violence in Israel and Gaza. thenation.com/article/societ…
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The door to my office this am: a poster listing the names of faculty and staff killed in #Gaza by Israel since 10/7/23, and the explanation of this action by faculty and staff at @BarnardCollege & @Columbia today. @Fsjp_cbt
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Have any doubt abt the capture of @Columbia by a partisan political project? Here you go. This, while the uni leans into a robust commitment to "institutional neutrality" w/r/t to everything else & dismantles all of its infrastructure protecting ag racism, sexism, homophobia etc.
Interim President of Columbia University Makes a Clear Statement to Minister of Education Kisch: Columbia University Is Fully Committed to Fighting Antisemitism and Ensuring the Safety of Jewish and Israeli Students and Faculty on Campus
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Minister of Education Yoav Kisch met today (Monday) with Columbia University Interim President, Prof. Katrina Armstrong, as part of his visit to the United States. The meeting was positive and focused on combating antisemitism on campus and promoting academic collaborations between Israel and the U.S.
Minister Kisch and Interim President Armstrong agreed on the importance of taking firm action against antisemitism on campus and ensuring that academic institutions do not allow a hostile environment against Jews. The Interim president emphasized her commitment to fighting this phenomenon and noted that Columbia University has already taken significant steps to address the issue.
Additionally, the meeting addressed the expansion of academic and research collaborations between Israel and the U.S., with a focus on scientific and technological innovation and strengthening ties between leading research institutions.
Minister of Education Yoav Kisch:
“The fight against antisemitism on American academic campuses is essential, and I am pleased to see that Columbia University Interim President Prof. Armstrong is committed to this issue and is taking decisive action to eradicate this phenomenon. This is an important step, and I hope other universities will follow her and take responsibility for ensuring a safe environment for Jewish and Israeli students and faculty.”
Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong:
"It was an honor to have the opportunity to meet with Minister of Education Kisch today to speak about our efforts on campus to address and eliminate antisemitism and all forms of discrimination, and to discuss our collaborations on education and research."
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The visit to Columbia University is part of Minister Kisch’s trip to the U.S., which includes meetings with senior government officials, academics, and industry leaders. The goal is to strengthen Israel’s strategic ties in the fields of educational innovation, combating antisemitism, and expanding academic collaborations between the two countries.
- Ministry of Education Communications -
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One reason why @GovTimWalz would make a fab VP pick: @peggyflanagan wd become Gov. She'd be the first Native American governor! Notice how she describes herself in her bio: Anishinaabekwe; mama; partner; child advocate; organizer; beaded earring enthusiast; Lt. Gov of Minnesota.
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I was on @thereidout a couple days ago talking about the protests on the @Columbia campus, and she asked me about how I got thrown under the bus by my president at the Congressional hearing a few weeks ago - check out my response here:
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We tried to deliver our demands to the President, but they locked the doors to Low Library. In my 25 years at Columbia, this is the first time I've seen the President lock out her own faculty.
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So glad this event is taking place. When we scheduled an event honoring Edward Said's legacy last November, organized thru the @Columbia Global Center in Amman, Columbia canceled the event: twailr.com/online-panel-acad…
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Not so fast in 👏🏼👏🏼ing the "Marriage Equality Act", it does not codify the rights secured by Obergefell, but only says that states can't refuse to recognize a valid marriage from another state if the reason is bec of the married person's sex, race, ethnicity, or nat'l origin. 🧵
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Not wanting to be left out of the ADL messaging, @GovKathyHochul condemns calls for genocide that haven't occurred on college campuses, meanwhile we can't get @Columbia to investigate documented cases of racism, sexism, & homophobia by professors in the classroom.
Calls for genocide on college campuses violate New York's Human Rights Law, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, & SUNY's Code of Conduct. We're prepared to take enforcement action if colleges & universities are found not in compliance.
Read my letter to college presidents:
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This is the room at @ColumbiaLaw where an event with @OmarSShakir of @hrw was supposed to be held tonite, unpacking the int'l legal concept of "apartheid", but the university cancelled it at the last minute for "security" concerns.
This is the 2nd time the university cancelled this event - ostensibly on security grounds. I'm standing outside the room where it was supposed to be held, there is no security issue here. Just a bunch of disappointed students who had expected to learn something abt intern'l law.
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Why wd @Columbia faculty object to Columbia opening a Global Center in Tel Aviv, Israel? Why would students protesting on our campus demand that it be closed? 100+ faculty signed a letter to former President Lee Bollinger in 2023 explaining why, as I did on @thereidout.
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Right, and just to clear up any confusion: I won’t serve as the next President of @Columbia University.
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I am so lucky to work at a place (@ColumbiaLaw) that not only "lets" me teach Gender Justice, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, and Critical Legal Thought - but asks me to do so every year. I'll have 65 1Ls and 55 2L/3Ls in my classes this spring. #BuildingaBetterWorld
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@Columbia & @BarnardCollege faculty held a huge protest in front of the President's office today supporting the student groups @ColumbiaSJP & @ColumbiaJVP banned by the University for speaking out for Palestinian rights, and supporting the right to academic freedom.
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Incredible. So much hatred and violence in this world. I hope you are staying safe Alejandra.
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We wrote this, and we mean business. If @Columbia is allowing itself to be captured by interests that aren't committed to our fundamental mission (or are affirmatively seeking to undermine it), we'll take our university back! @Fsjp_cbt columbiaspectator.com/opinio…
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Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, email ckuck@immigration.net & dclaffey@immigration.net piped.video/FS6B8CM8uf4
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I'm so proud to have joined the Board of @pal_legal - please give generously to support their work which is always critically important, but especially so in this challenging time. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
❤️🔥📣This #GivingTuesday, Palestine Legal is excited to launch our end of year fundraising campaign: BOLDER TOGETHER.
🔗 Donate here: palestinelegal.org/donate
📸 Photographer credit: @boundcast on IG
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I believe that student protesters at Columbia disrupted a class yesterday, protesting its content. I also heard that flyers were distributed during the protest that I regard offensive. I will defend students' right to peaceful protest, but not disturbing classes and hate speech.
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Fact: this is what anti-Palestinian racism looks like, stereotyping peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters as terrorists & ignoring actual violence of counter protesters. If you say "it was only fart spray": that was never proven & whatever it was it put students in the hospital.
Facts: a Columbia student who sprayed peaceful protesters w/ a noxious gas, putting sev'l of them in the hospital, was paid $400,000 by Columbia, yet peaceful protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza now risk having their visas revoked as supporting terror. World upside down.
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My response to Mark Lilla's "The End of Identity Liberalism": Making White Supremacy Respectable. Again. - BLARB blog.lareviewofbooks.org/ess…
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Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website @natashalennard, @prem_thakker theintercept.com/2024/06/03/… 🧵 1/4
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The published version of the Columbia faculty letter supporting our students and the principle that situating the war in Israel/Gaza in the history of the region ≠ antisemitism, citing prominent authority for doing so, please go here: docs.google.com/document/u/1…
Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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Normally when you agree to the demands in a ransom note you do so in exchange for something. Not Columbia University. Here's my take: piped.video/ndaogsEXvP0
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Judge Farbiarz just ordered that Mahmoud Khalil be released from immigration detention. Finally.
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Yet when law students quietly read names of Gazans killed in recent months & that action makes some prospective students feel uncomfortable, the President of @columbia issues strong condemnation of the students' expressive conduct.
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The International Court of Justice couldn't be more clear: "the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the régime associated with them, have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law."
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Please join us in supporting our students who are defending the lives and dignity of Gazans, and are then prosecuted/persecuted by their colleges and universities. They pay 10s of 1000s of $$ in tuition to institutions that then bar them from graduating bec of their protests.
Columbia Law Professor @ProfKFranke is establishing a fund at Palestine Legal to defend student protesters in honor of her own lawyer, Kathleen Peratis.
Peratis is representing Franke against Columbia, which is targeting Franke for supporting Palestinian students and allies.
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Make no mistake, there is a larger plan here: my facilitation of a reading group on the history of Palestine is viewed as antisemitic & her teaching about gender fluidity is divisive. An uneducated population is much easier to control/manipulate/rule by authoritarian means.
The firing of a teacher who read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class was upheld Thursday by the Georgia Board of Education. She says the book was about inclusiveness. They say it was a prohibited “divisive concept.” nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news…
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Just to clarify, this action was taken without the permission, and over the objections of, the student leadership of the Columbia Law Review. The Directors posted the paper on the Law Review's website with a disclaimer the student editors did not approve.
The Columbia Law Review's website is back up, no longer "under maintenance." There is a statement from the directors at the bottom of the page. h/t @legalrealist columbialawreview.org/
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Breaking: today ICE detained yet another Columbia student, a student with a green card. Mohsen Mahdawi is a peaceful, moral leader on our campus, and was picked up by ICE simply because he spoke to the suffering of Palestinians. piped.video/_87OBxLDC_Q
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When I was in elementary school girls were not allowed to play full-court basketball because - we were told - our uteruses might fall out if we ran too much. Sports have always been replete with sexism - holding us back from start to finish. Read the imp piece from @transscribe
For @mic, I wrote about the awful investigation into a Utah girl's sex after parents complained the athlete wasn't "feminine enough" after winning a high school championship. mic.com/impact/utah-trans-at…
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Full segment of @democracynow today when Prof Mahmood Mamdani and I discuss the gassing of our pro-Palestinian students at @BarnardCollege and @Columbia, and then our institution's response - not compassion or care but further policing of the students. democracynow.org/2024/1/25/c…
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Union Theological Seminary's Rev. Dr. @SereneJones, such an incredible leader:
Amid student protests over Gaza, one of the first schools to announce a divestment plan is @UnionSeminary in New York, which is affiliated with Columbia University. President @SereneJones explains what motivated the theological school to act, saying it was "not a hard decision."
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This hearing is SO gender-y. The accuser was pretty much apologetic for testifying that she was sexually assaulted, while the alleged perpetrator is so angry he can't control himself.
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If you were just admitted to Columbia - undergrad, grad, any program - and have reservations about Columbia, please PM me.
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Nevermind, um, #Guantanamo, drone killings, Abu Ghraib, fabricating evidence to start a war in Iraq. Should I continue, cause lord knows I could?
Why George W. Bush, the Grim Reaper ofTexas who plunged a lethal injection into 154 Texans, more than any previous governor in modern American history, get to wax poetically at funeral of John Lewis? All of American politics, in life and death, is macabre theater.
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On the heals of a chemical attack by Israeli students on pro-Palestinian students & an admin that brings disciplinary charges against students who read the names of Gazans killed in this war or who hang a Palestinian flag out their dorm window (but not an Israeli flag), now this:
The Committee is expanding its antisemitism investigation to include Columbia University.
@virginiafoxx sent a letter to Columbia University requesting documents related to the university's response to antisemitism on its campus⬇️
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New UCLA Law Review article argues that laws conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism harm Jews - particularly Jews who link such critiques to their religious identity. from @itamann & @lihiy. Thank you for this important analysis. uclalawreview.org/defending-…
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This is very important new news: today Columbia University was given a ransom note by the Trump administration. A ransom note.
The ransom note itself is here: drive.google.com/file/d/12og…
piped.video/rrXAmszIoEs
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In the 1850s images of Black people were posted by marshals seeking to send Black people into slavery under the #FugitiveSlaveAct. Not unsurprisingly this resulted in the kidnapping of free Black people, just to collect the ransom. ICE is doing it the same thing now. Horrendous.
Unprecedented: ICE is launching billboards in Pennsylvania with the faces of immigrants who have been released by local police departments under so-called sanctuary policies.
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The Legal Profession Has Abandoned Palestinians and Their Allies thenation.com/article/activi… @thenation
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"Tis the season of big meals"? Not so much for Columbia's Grad Students, who are striking in order to have @Columbia pay them a living wage. @C_AWDU @SW_Columbia
It's the season of big meals. Columbia's Dr. Lisa Ranzenhofer offers tips for maintaining a healthy mindset toward food and finding support over the holidays. bit.ly/3EL9Pdo
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It appears that 2 things, 1 Harvard’s strong stance resisting Trump’s demands & 2 negative publicity toward Columbia’s potential agreement to similar demands, have resulted in the postponement of any announcement from Columbia re its capitulation to Trump.Let’s see how this goes.
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704 Barnard/Columbia faculty express very strong concerns about @BarnardCollege President Laura Rosenbury aggressively censoring discussion of Israel/Gaza.
docs.google.com/document/d/e…
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Reiterating my take that @CoryBooker's talk-a-thon in the Senate was more stunt than meaningful tactic. Shortly after he stopped talking he voted to send more bombs to the Israeli military to kill Palestinians. Talk is cheap, and how you vote tells us who you are.
NEWS: Senator Cory Booker was among 83 U.S. Senators who voted today to send more American bombs and missiles to the Israeli military as it carries out its intensifying genocidal assault on the indigenous Palestinian population. The U.S. Senate held votes on two resolutions introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders to block $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel, including bombs, bomb components, missiles, and guidance kits. Both resolutions were overwhelmingly defeated, with votes of 15-82 and 15-83, respectively.
In November 2024, Sanders’s similar resolutions gained support from 19 Democrats, but four senators who had voted in favor at that time changed their stance on Thursday, voting “No.”They were Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen (who announced she will not seek reelection next year), and Maine Senator Angus King, an Independent who caucuses with Democrats.
The 15 Senators who voted to block additional weapons for genocide, were: New Jersey Senator Andy Kim, Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono, New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich, Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz, Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Vermont Senator Peter Welch, and Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy.
Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin voted “present” for both motions.
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I am honored to have joined the Boars of Directors of Palestine Legal, especially now, when their work is critically important to preserving and protecting the right to say the word “Palestine”, and acknowledge that Palestinian lives matter.
As institutions grow increasingly aggressive in trying to intimidate and silence Palestinians and their allies, please remember you don't have to talk to cops, you should not consent to a search, and you don't have to let them in without a warrant. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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150+ Columbia/Barnard Faculty have signed a letter supporting our students' right to contextualize the war in Israel/Gaza within the 75 yr occupation of Palestine - insisting that it isn't anti-Semitic to do so. Please read. docs.google.com/document/u/1…
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