Columbia University could terminate prominent law school professor, Katherine Franke, over comments showing concern over a university program that allows Israeli soldiers to join campus and attack Palestinian students.
More details:
"Last month, members of the chat, including billionaire Len Blavatnik, held a Zoom call with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, at a time when a pro-Palestinian encampment was taking place at Columbia University in the city.
During the call, attendees spoke about making political donations to Adams, and about how the business leaders could urge Columbia's president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police on campus.
Some members of the chat offered to pay for private investigators to help police during the protests."
this is what our ruling class has decided what will be normal
-aaron bushnell
lots of nypd around columbia right now, they’ve completed surrounded the area and are restricting movement. srg - known for violent arrests - have been spotted mobilising. meanwhile ccny students have been violently assaulted and pepper sprayed by cops. things might escalate tonight
NYPD IN RIOT GEAR ARE ON COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S CAMPUS AND ARE APPROACHING THE HUMAN WALL IN FRONT OF HIND HALL + ENCIRCLED THE GAZA SOLIDARITY ENCAMPMENT
press has been removed from the area and nypd has entered the building. arrests are being made. there is reporting of use of tear gas
God, I hate this country
Lines of police in riot gear enter Columbia University campus
Student protests for Palestine rock US universities and face the armed might of the capitalist state
Won't somebody please think of the windows???
Columbia has locked down the entire campus with massive restrictions on entry.
We want to make it clear to the administration: we will not leave. While our peers remain, so do we.
We are calling on all Columbia affiliates who remain on campus to rally at de-occupied Hind’s Hall at 2pm, and those who are barred from entering campus to rally outside of the gates at 116th and Broadway at the same time.
The uprising of American universities..
Columbia University students named the Hamilton Building “Hind,” in reference to the child Hind, who was killed by the occupation along with her relatives, and then killed the ambulance crew that came to rescue her in Gaza.
[Columbian Gaza Solidarity Encampment, USA]
It’s cool how schools can’t punish pro-Nazi students because of the First Amendment but can mass arrest and suspend anti-war students because what First Amendment?🤔
"Universities, meanwhile, have putative value commitments – to things like free inquiry, open expression, equality and dignity among their students and the pursuit of justice – that are in fact wildly out of step with their real institutional incentives.
Sneering attention from conservatives, after all, is not merely a tedious waste of time, though it’s certainly that; it is also a threat to universities’ relationships with the people whose interests shape their academic policies with more and more bald transparency: their donors."
an update on our comrades at yale: the solidarity encampment only grows as the night goes on!
ONE HOUR AGO: students at yale are also engaging in a solidarity protest with columbia and palestine!