"We want to gather to celebrate the incredible accomplishments of the Class of 2025—and to stand fiercely in solidarity with those who were denied the chance to cross this stage. We want to honor our peers who have been silenced, displaced, or harmed by the institution."
gofund.me/8b362ae1 #Barnard
Last night, Columbia's president responded to the rumors that she'd agreed to hand over the university to the Trump administration. While other universities are fighting back, Columbia continues to be willing to give up more and more independence. youtu.be/Hh6b86WKu4M
Image of protest with a speaker on the Columbia sundial surrounded by people holding protest posters.
Image of protest with a speaker sitting surrounded by people holding protest posters.
Image of protest with a speaker and a person holding a megaphone
Image of a group of people in regalia and white coats holding signs that say e.g. Columbia Fight Back.
Scenes from our demonstration today urging the Columbia Board of Trustees to protect our patients, students, research and teaching.
Hands off our university!
RIGHT NOW:
Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, & faculty are calling on the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump admin’s assault on students, research, teaching, and patients.
@cuimcstandsup.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social
"According to the Barnard chapter of the @aaup.bsky.social, students have more rights in a New York City criminal court than in a Barnard conduct hearing, since they now lack the right to legal representation within the college’s disciplinary process." #FreePalestine #JusticeForStudentProtestors
Why are Barnard and Columbia terrified of what The Free Beacon says about us, but indifferent to In These Times and Truthout?
inthesetimes.com/article/colu...
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The Attack on American Education, from our Perspective as Teachers College Faculty docs.google.com/document/d/e... (Teachers College is the T in CBT) 🇵🇸 🎓
Brilliant, tragic rendering of just this problem from Nadia Abu El-Haj
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
"Khalil has denounced antisemitism in the past. There is evidence that members of the pro-Israel lobby went out of their way to ask the government to arrest and deport Khalil... And there is evidence that the day before his arrest, Khalil wrote to the CU administration requesting its protection."
"There is no evidence that Khalil committed any illegal act. [Columbia Interim President] Armstrong might have mentioned that."
www.thenation.com/article/soci... by @columbiauniversity.bsky.social professor @brucerobbins.bsky.social
"The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government."
www.aaup.org/news/cowardi... From our friends at @aaup.bsky.social.
A sentiment we can get behind
"We will not allow a white supremacist president and his party to claim the mantle of Jewish safety as they shred the Constitution and spin outlandish legal theories to justify the suppression of dissent and the brutalization of those who oppose war and apartheid."
"agenda. Trump’s claim that this atrocity “combats antisemitism” is insulting. We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and Neo-Nazis.
"in association with a university would deal so ignorantly with language and truth. But more than that, I am ashamed, as a Jewish person, that this kind of slander has found such currency in some parts of the Jewish community, in service of the deeply racist and antisemitic Trump
" a broad and diverse movement of courageous young people standing together against the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, funded by our tax dollars? Call your friends in the government and send the feds to their door. As an educator, it disgusts me that anyone who wants to be taken seriously
"Call them a terrorist and call the cops. Don't like their views? Call them antisemitic and get them expelled. Don’t like that your Jewish colleague has the chutzpah to say “free Palestine?” Report him for Jew hatred to the university task force. Don't like seeing
"After what I’ve seen over the last year and a half, I’m not sure they’re wrong. Anti-Palestinian groups have spent all year casually leveling the most dangerous accusations on the flimsiest of grounds and members of our own community have repeated them. Don't like seeing a keffiyeh?
"They are betting that when you hear Mahmoud’s name, or the word “Palestinian,” the parts of you that make you a thinking and rational and caring person will switch off, and you will believe the worst about him, and you will turn a blind eye to these grave violations of his rights.
"It is unreasonable, intolerable, unconstitutional. So why do they think they can get away with it? The Trump administration is betting that Americans will happily look the other way as one more Palestinian is victimized here on American soil.
"in his work as an advocate and a negotiator, as someone committed to the peaceful resolution of difficult situations and conflicts. He is a consummate diplomat in his disposition and character. What the Trump government is doing to Mahmoud is obscene.
"When I step down from this podium, I will publish these remarks, in order to protect...from inevitable attempts to misrepresent them. Mahmoud, as the student negotiator, took these same risks and more. Mahmoud is a man of decency, honor, and kindness. He has distinguished himself,
"safety, and freedom with your face uncovered and your name declared. You can be sure you will be harassed, doxed, terrorized. People will try to get you fired from your job. For speaking here, I will receive a new round of death threats, slander, complaints to my employer.
"where threatened no one. As I watched the police action unfold in horror, I received a request to speak at an emergency press conference alongside Mahmoud, who had just been asked to negotiate on behalf of the encampment. It is always dangerous to speak in public for Palestinian rights,
"The last time I spoke at a press conference was April 18, 2024. That day, NYPD officers in crowd control gear entered our campus for the first time in decades and carried off dozens of students who were peacefully and quietly encamped on one of the enclosed lawns in front of our library,
Columbia Associate Prof Joseph Howley speaks in defense of Mahmoud Khalil & about the months-long campaign to mischaracterize student protest on campus as antisemitic, whereas students were protesting the genocide in Gaza and asking Columbia to divest from war funds. x.com/cityascanvas...
It has nothing to do with Jewish safety and everything to do with anti-Palestinian racism and crushing political dissent. Mahmoud deserves to be free.
We see you U. Maine. Solidarity!