Category: Columbia University
‘I Have No Idea, To Be Honest’: Columbia Encampment Organizer Mahmoud Khalil Says It’s Unclear Whether Hamas Targeted Civilians on Oct 7
Columbia University encampment leader Mahmoud Khalil said in an interview that it’s unclear whether Hamas targeted civilians in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel. Hamas is widely understood to have done so.
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‘I F—ing Hate This University’: Columbia Student Workers Union Erupts Over Anti-Semitism Task Force’s Recommendation To Hire Middle East Professors Who Don’t Hate Israel
After Columbia University’s anti-Semitism task force recommended hiring faculty members who were “not explicitly anti-Zionist”—the task force’s final report noted that there are no such professors who are full-time and on tenure track—an official group chat for the Ivy League school’s student union erupted, screenshots exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Members compared Zionists to racists and fascists. The chair of the union’s board said, “I f—ing hate this university.”
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Columbia Tries To Distance Itself From New Pulitzer Board Member After Free Beacon Report
Columbia University attempted to distance itself from the Pulitzer Prize Board’s newest member, Harvard professor Vijay Iyer, after a Washington Free Beacon report revealed his strident anti-Israel activism and membership in a faculty group that published an anti-Semitic cartoon.
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Columbia Vowed To Expel Khymani James, Who Fantasized About ‘Murdering Zionists.’ He Could Return This Fall.
Columbia University encampment organizer Khymani James, who has fantasized about “murdering Zionists,” could return to campus this fall, even though the Ivy League university promised he would be expelled.
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Harvard Professor Known for Anti-Israel Activism Joins Columbia’s Pulitzer Board
A Harvard professor who is one of the campus’s most hard-line anti-Israel activists is joining the board that doles out Pulitzer Prizes.
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Columbia Taps University of Wisconsin Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin as Fourth President in Two Years
Columbia University has selected University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin as its next president, according to three people familiar with the decision. Mnookin, the former dean of UCLA School of Law, will be Columbia’s fourth president in two years.
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BREAKING: Columbia Taps University of Wisconsin Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin as Fourth President in Two Year
Columbia University has selected University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor Jennifer Mnookin as its next president, according to three people familiar with the decision. Mnookin, the former dean of UCLA School of Law, will be Columbia’s fourth president in two years.
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Columbia Journalism School Faculty Endorse Minnesota Anti-ICE Activism
A statement signed “The Faculty of Columbia Journalism School” denounces what it describes as “increasingly aggressive government suppression of political speech throughout the country, including on our own campus, as well as the administration’s violent efforts to quell Constitutionally protected protests in Minnesota.”
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Guest Column: I’m Also a Victim of Zionist Aggression and Islamophobia. Where Are My Encampments?
In 2024, I watched and cheered as American students risked their lives to stand on the right side of history. They skipped meals, slept in tents, and boycotted exams. In the course of this honorable struggle, they transformed the manicured lawns of America’s finest universities into moral battlegrounds, the epicenter of a globalized intifada.
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Norman Podhoretz, a Grateful American
It is one of my favorite stories, told in Norman Podhoretz’s 2000 book My Love Affair with America—a tale for which I told my friend Norman, who died this week at the age of 95, I am eternally grateful, as it features so often in my sermons:
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