"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

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/...

"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

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.

Boosting now that the crowdfunding site is working better. #FreeMahmoud

“The university is prohibiting Jewish students from accessing a public part of campus—in the name of antisemitism. Where is the office of institutional equity? Where’s the task force on antisemitism?”

www.youtube.com/live/GScvlP4... Community leaders and advocates hold a press conference after federal immigration authorities arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who played a prominent role in Columbia University’s student protests, at his university-owned apartment Saturday night.

We are raising urgent funds to support Mahmoud Khalil and his family, a dedicated advocate for Palestinian rights and a recent graduate of Columbia University’s MPA in Development Practice program. chuffed.org/project/just... If you prefer Venmo: venmo.com/u/FreeMahmou... 🇵🇸 #JusticeForMahmoud

This evening, Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis came together to demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. We will not be silent about this outrageous assault on free speech. We will not be silent in the face of an authoritarian takeover. #FreeMahmoud

"Institutions, inside & outside higher ed, might want to think carefully about their stance of self-protective silence in the face of a government that covets the unchecked power of authoritarianism. Anything could be the next Columbia in the ongoing quest to scare us all straight."

"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw students, faculty, free speech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a right-wing, pro-Israel narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety."

Barnard & Columbia AAUP released a statement on the carceral reaction to a peaceful protest. "Yesterday’s decision represents the culmination of the last 18 months, during which President Rosenbury has implemented rule after rule to chill freedom of expression and to undermine due process." 🇵🇸 🎓

Barnard, reinstate our students! 🇵🇸 🎓

Note the scare quotes

FSJP-CBT (Columbia Barnard Teachers College): We unequivocally condemn the violence police action on Barnard’s campus today.

Prof @illdottore.bsky.social writes, in a letter to the editor: "Regarding the accusation that I consider the exclusion of Jewish students from campus spaces a “rightful form of protest”—I do not hold this position, nor does the author provide any evidence of my doing so. It is mere libel." 🇵🇸 🎓

“If academic freedom in teaching & in scholarship can be overridden by the dicta of politicians & administrators, then the right to learn will not survive our present moment.” Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson’s full letter to Governor Hochul on CUNY interference here: www.aaup.org/news/governo...

Columbia spends millions on campus security while faculty and staff are threatened with budget cuts, hiring freezes and austerity and students face ongoing harassment and surveillance. We all want the gates opened and the private security removed. Sign the petition and share. bit.ly/CUopenthegates

www.columbiaspectator.com/city-news/20... “There’s also an overwhelming sense that the restrictions are #stupid, that they don’t protect Columbia. … The lead plaintiff’s 96-year-old mother really should not be turned away when she wants to go for a walk across campus,” Golick said. 🇵🇸 🎓

"These actions must be understood, and vigorously resisted, as part of the new administration’s wider assault on American universities as sites of open inquiry." 🇵🇸 🎓 1/a bunch

The lawsuit goes on to say that the university disregarded “its established disciplinary procedures to unlawfully persecute the plaintiffs based on their protected status and speech,” and that “the University engaged in extreme and outrageous behavior that exceeds all bounds of decency.” 🎓 🇵🇸

From our downtown colleagues 🎓 🇵🇸

Facts: a Columbia student who sprayed peaceful protesters w/ a noxious gas, putting sev'l of them in the hospital, was paid $400,000 by Columbia, yet peaceful student protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza now risk having their visas revoked as supporting terror. World upside down.

“The aforementioned disciplinary cases have remained in progress for two hundred and sixty-two days after the protests in question, a gross violation of the Rules of University Conduct,” the template reads. ... 🇵🇸 🍉

"What we are seeing on our campus is not just an abuse of the process, but is of multiple forms of anti-Palestinian racism." 🇵🇸 The video is three minutes long. Give it a watch!

The American Historical Association Council vetoed the membership's widely supported "Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza."

In a statement on Friday, the @ccrjustice.bsky.social, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, called the end of @katherinefranke.bsky.social's Columbia career “an egregious attack on both academic freedom and Palestinian rights advocacy.”

This is truly shameful of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. They fired @katherinefranke.bsky.social. @aaup.bsky.social stands with Professor Franke and against this repression of pro-Palestinian speech. academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...

Statement from Columbia law prof Katherine Franke on her termination/retirement "I have come to the view that the Columbia U administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research." 🍉

"SEIKALY: We just won a very basic resolution to oppose scholasticide & 15 months of genocide at the Am Historical Assn. We won it in a landslide. And this moment makes me feel like, despite the fact that...for the last 15 mos I have watched the obliteration of my people, the future is still ours."

Let's gooo

There's a good chance your library catalog is made by an Israeli company.

🇵🇸 Resolution passes 428-88! Whereas the US government has supplied Israel with the weapons being used to commit this scholasticide; Therefore, be it resolved that the AHA, which supports the right of all peoples to freely teach and learn about their past, condemns the Israeli violence in Gaza ...

12/22 is the final day of the online auction ending at midnight? Proceeds go to the CUNY Comrade Support Fund that aids the immediate and long-term needs of comrades who are facing job loss, job insecurity, doxxing, housing insecurity, loss of health insurance, severe injuries, legal fees, etc. 🇵🇸 🎓

No libraries left in Gaza: study-in at NYPL organized by CUNY4Palestine www.instagram.com/p/DD2IAkAJ9iu/

Story is worth reading though not least because it features one of our students who’s doing really important work. But you can see the seams between where they’ve grudgingly used a source’s wording about their views and where house style kicks in. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/u...

🇵🇸 Our letter to the Columbia Alumni Association on doxxing, harassment and slander of our members on 12.17.24: "We are a concerned group of faculty and staff with different affiliations, including the Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) and other allied groups. ...