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Since Hamas’ initial attack on Israel, we have seen thousands of students across the nation harass Jews, set up tents on campus grounds, and take over buildings in the name of Palestine. Now, Columbia University is cracking down on those responsible for the chaos.
Columbia University cracked down on dozens of students who participated in the anti-Israel encampment and a recent takeover of a campus library, where protesters injured at least two public safety officers and vandalized the building.
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Sources familiar with the matter told The Christian Post that over 70 students of the New York City-based institution are facing consequences, with about 80% of them receiving suspensions, expulsions or degree revocations. Most of those suspended received two-year suspensions.
The disciplinary measures are related to the Butler Library disruption on May 7 and an anti-Israel encampment organized in protest of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza following the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
Columbia University confirmed in a Tuesday statement that the University Judicial Board had issued sanctions following an investigation by professors and administrators on the panel. Those who received the steepest punishments were “given multiple opportunities to leave Butler Library during the disruption and refused,” the source added.
The university could not release the disciplinary results of individual students, but it disclosed that sanctions from Butler Library include probation, suspension, degree revocation and expulsion. Suspensions from the university range from one year to three years, according to the statement.
“Our institution must focus on delivering on its academic mission for our community. And to create a thriving academic community, there must be respect for each other and the institution’s fundamental work, policies, and rules,” Columbia University said in its Tuesday statement.
“Disruptions to academic activities are in violation of University policies and Rules, and such violations will necessarily generate consequences,” the university continued. “The speed with which our updated UJB system has offered an equitable resolution to the community and students involved is a testament to the hard work of this institution to improve its processes.”
The disciplinary crackdown comes several months after President Donald Trump’s administration cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants to the university.
Following these cuts, the university announced that it had taken steps to better address Jewish hatred, such as including the definition of antisemitism into its anti-discrimination policies.
Columbia University did not immediately respond to The Christian Post’s request for further comment about the situation.
The anti-Israel encampments at Columbia University garnered media attention last year as reports surfaced of protesters harassing Jewish students. Last April, Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of the campus’ Orthodox Union-Jewish Learning Initiative, even advised Jewish students to return home until the campus environment improved.
In April 2024, demonstrators broke into and took over Hamilton Hall. They broke windows and barricaded themselves in to prevent authorities from entering.
On May 7, dozens of anti-Israel protesters stormed the Butler Library, resulting in the detainment of at least 80 people. Acting Columbia President Claire Shipman said in a statement at the time that the university had no choice but to request help from the New York Police Department to quell the situation.
“Sadly, during the course of this disruption, two of our Columbia Public Safety Officers sustained injuries during a crowd surge when individuals attempted to force their way into the building and into Room 301,” Shipman stated. “These actions are outrageous.”
According to footage of the protest shared on social media, multiple keffiyeh-clad demonstrators yelled chants and pounded on drums in the campus library. Another video shared online shows an anti-Israel protester wearing a keffiyeh spray-painted “Learn From Palestine” on the library shelves.
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This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Alex Kent/Getty Images.
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These schools have taken huge amounts of money from Arab “donors” and set up chairs infested with propagandists. These revisionists push the myth of a “Palestinian” people thrown out of their ancestral lands by the “conniving”
Jews when, in fact there has never been a nation of Palestine (the land in question was a backwater
part of the Ottoman Empire until after World War I, inhabited by Arab squatters and blow-ins who no other Arab country wanted in their borders., as well as Jewish residents hoping to avoid mass extermination in Eurpe. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, an Arab savage was passionately pro-Nazi and wanted to raise an army of Bosnian muslims and set up concentration camps for local Jews. By 1948 “Palestine” was 55%
Arab and 45% Jewish and
the proposed 2 state
solution was accepted by
the Jews and refused by
the Arabs, even though the Arabs were offered East Jerusalem, the gem of the area, The arabs left to await a successful invasion of the new state of Israel which ended in the first of many Arab defeats. The so-called Palestinians are not legitimate refugees, they are people who voluntarily left Israel hoping for its destruction. No one in the area wants them in their borders because they are a basically savage people and they also serve as a false means of garnering international support against Israel. By the way, Israel is the ancestral home of the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Jacob (sorry moslems, the idea that the inheritance passed through Ishmael and Esau is a lie perpetuated by the false prophet Mohammed two thousand years later). It was Jewish land for 1500 years until it was colonized…yes colonized by the Romans. All this history to make a point. Columbia and other schools have played the part of the harlot and sold their cowardly, dishonest souls for money. No settlement against them would be too harsh.
Thank you for your accurate history lesson, Don! Amen!!
There had better be very serious laws passed and enforced about safety on college/university campuses. There should have never been that much disruption and disrespect for Jews or any other group. The Constitution allows PEACEFUL protest. Not what happened at Columbia and other universities. There needs to be people on call 100’s if necessary to quell that nonsense AS SOON AS it gets dangerous.
How sad that perhaps the only reason this has happened is because of financial repercussions, YHVH, You alone know their hearts, but I pray You would deal with them in regard to making decisions according to what is righteous and just, not what is expedient or beneficial financially. The moral fiber of many of our colleges and universities is lacking, because they no longer adhere to Biblical truth. Again, give parents impetus to choose wisely if they are the ones footing the bill for higher education – there are worthy institutions that uphold Godly values. Please bless them with excellent support, staffing, and faculty.