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Columbia Faces Mounting Pressure to Hold Anti-Israel Library Rioters Accountable After Chaotic Campus Takeover

Columbia Faces Mounting Pressure to Hold Anti-Israel Library Rioters Accountable After Chaotic Campus Takeover By: Fern Sidman Columbia University is facing intense scrutiny from Jewish advocacy groups, students, and federal officials after a violent anti-Israel protest erupted inside Butler Library on Wednesday, resulting in the arrest of more than 80 individuals and raising urgent concerns […]

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Columbia U Pro-Hamas Agitator Mahmoud Khalil Calls Himself a ‘Political Prisoner’ in First Public Statement from Detention Center

Columbia U Pro-Hamas Agitator Mahmoud Khalil Calls Himself a ‘Political Prisoner’ in First Public Statement from Detention Center By: Fern Sidman In a powerful open letter released Tuesday, Mahmoud Khalil — a prominent Columbia University anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activist — described his arrest and detention by federal immigration authorities as an assault on his fundamental […]

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Columbia says it expelled some anti-Israel students, revoked degrees, issued multi-year suspensions

(JNS) Columbia University announced on Thursday that it had disciplined students, who occupied the Ivy League school’s Hamilton Hall last spring, including with “multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations and expulsions.” “The return of suspended students will be overseen by Columbia’s University Life Office,” added the school, which is the subject of a federal probe for […]

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Israeli student arrested for Nazi salute at Auschwitz

(A7) An Israeli high school student was arrested on Sunday after making a Nazi salute at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during a school trip to Poland, Ynet reported. The 12th-grade student, part of a delegation from a northern Israeli high school, performed the gesture under the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Sets You Free”) sign […]

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