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Columbia Faculty Recommend Anti-Israel Professor for Middle Eastern Studies Position
The move comes months after the university pledged to ensure ‘balanced’ offerings in its Middle Eastern Studies department as part of a $221 million…
Jonas Du
Columbia Grad Students Get a Reality Check
The powerful United Auto Workers won’t allow a strike on campus if the grad students’ union clings to its obsession with politics.
Jonas Du
Why Grad Students at Columbia May Go on Strike
‘If you look at what the union is doing now, you can see there’s no sane people left,’ says one student about its political fixations.
Jonas Du
Columbia’s Modern Arab Studies Chair Contenders Have One Thing in Common: Hating Israel
The university says it is committed to ‘balanced’ curricula on the Middle East. Their top candidates tell a different story.
Maya Sulkin
What Happened to Columbia’s Antisemitism Monitor?
Insiders say the university failed to cooperate with its own government-mandated watchdog.
Maya Sulkin
Behind the $221 Million Columbia Antisemitism Deal
Hundreds of Jewish faculty, staff, and students, plus two janitors held hostage by protesters, will get payouts: ‘We’ll be watching you.’
Maya Sulkin and Frannie Block
EXCLUSIVE: Student Visa Applicants with ‘Hostile Attitudes’ Will Be Told They Can’t Come to the U.S.
The State Department will start reviewing social media ‘to make America and its universities safer.’
Maya Sulkin
Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities
Foreign countries such as China and Qatar have poured $29 billion into campuses over the past few years. ‘Hostile powers are buying influence on…
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
‘Reminiscent of the KKK’: Columbia Janitors Sue Protesters Who Took Over Hamilton Hall
Mario Torres and Lester Wilson were trapped inside a Columbia building by masked protesters last spring, assaulted, and called ‘Jew lovers,’ according…
Frannie Block
The Godfather of the Campus Intifada
Today’s protesters—at Columbia and beyond—owe their worldview to professor Edward Said, whose obsession with the West blinded him to the reality of the…
Eli Lake
No Deportations Without Due Process
The public deserves clarity on these cases. So we called the State Department.
The Editors
Columbia President Says One Thing to Trump Admin—and Another in Private
In a call with faculty, Katrina Armstrong says the school plans not to stick to some of its agreements with the Trump administration.
Maya Sulkin
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