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Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
OPINION: The US green card is a privilege, not an inalienable right
By Jonathan Harounoff
Many of those who have passionately defended Khalil have been so conspicuously silent on the 59 hostages, writes Jonathan Harounoff
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
March 12, 2025, 7:34 pm
OPINION: The US green card is a privilege, not an inalienable right
Many of those who have passionately defended Khalil have been so conspicuously silent on the 59 hostages, writes Jonathan Harounoff
By Jonathan Harounoff
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
March 10, 2025, 5:20 pm
ICE arrests Palestinian protest leader at Columbia, in sharp escalation of campus actions
Jewish groups and leaders immediately spoke out both in favour and against the arrest
By Ben Sales (JTA)
Pic; JTA/Pool
March 5, 2025, 5:34 pm
Trump threatens to pull funding from campuses that allow ‘illegal protests’
The threat came after his administration said it was considering stopping more than £39 million in federal contracts with Columbia University
By Ben Sales (JTA)
Protesters outside Columbia University, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress)
July 9, 2024, 9:07 am
Columbia removes 3 deans over text exchange deriding concerns of campus antisemitism
A fourth dean who was involved in one of the text exchanges apologised and likewise acknowledged that the conversations “call to mind antisemitic tropes.”
By Luke Tress (JTA)
Columbia University student protesters camped on campus to call for divestment from Israel, April 28, 2024. (Philissa Cramer)
May 13, 2024, 4:01 pm
OPINION: Why I WILL be attending Columbia University this September
'When individuals and groups from both sides engage with each other about our collective future, magic can happen and bridges are built', writes Josh Drill
By Josh Drill
Israeli professor Shai Davidai outside Columbia University, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)
April 23, 2024, 10:09 am
Israeli professor barred from entering Columbia University campus
Shai Davidai tried enter the university’s main campus to hold a “peaceful sit in” in the area of pro-Palestinian demonstrators who have occupied the campus lawn since last week.
By Luke Tress (JTA)
Columbia University (Wikimedia Commons)
April 7, 2019, 11:17 am
US professor says Israel is almost identical to Islamic State
Professor in the uni’s Department of Middle Eastern studies, Hamid Dabashi, was criticised after making the claims on Facebook 
By JTA
Ofir Dayan
October 2, 2018, 5:10 pm
Israeli UN envoy’s daughter called ‘murderer and terrorist’ on US campus
Dani Dayan's daughter Ofir claims she's been targeted by BDS groups at Columbia University
By JTA
Bernard Lewis
May 23, 2018, 12:40 pm
Leading Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis dies at 101
Just 12 days before his 102nd birthday the Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University passes away
By JTA
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