Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

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The police raid against Columbia students that followed the next day can be seen as an extension of the policy of appeasement and preemptive compliance with the anti-Palestinian, anti-student Republican right that Shafik adopted in her testimony.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/19/far-right-columbia-university-student-arrests

 

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Columbia, Free Speech and the Coddling of the American Right

The previous day, Shafik had prostrated herself before the bad faith brigade that is the Republican-led House of Representatives. In testimony before the House’s education committee, Shafik seemed determined to avoid the fate of two other Ivy League presidents whose shaky performances led to their ousters. She intimated that she would not hesitate to discipline pro-Palestine professors and students for speech, and suggested that using the contested chant “from the river to the sea” could be cause for disciplinary action on its own.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/opinion/columbia-protests-israel-gaza-crackdown.html