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Fast Forward ICE arrests Palestinian protest leader at Columbia, in sharp escalation of campus actions
Jewish groups and leaders immediately spoke out both in favor and against the arrest
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Fast Forward Barnard clamps down after bomb threat clears pro-Palestinian protest in library
At least nine protesters were arrested at the scene as dozens of NYPD officers entered the library. The bomb threat was deemed not credible.
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Fast Forward Trump threatens to pull funding from campuses that allow ‘illegal protests,’ endorses mask ban
The threat came after his administration said it was considering stopping more than $50 million in federal contracts with Columbia University over its “ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students"
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Fast Forward Former antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt says she turned down Columbia job
“I will not be used to provide cover for a completely unacceptable situation,” Lipstadt wrote in The Free Press
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Fast Forward Colleges fare better on average as ADL grades them on antisemitism for a second time
The higher grades come as the Trump administration trains its sights on colleges with anti-Israel protests
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Fast Forward Barnard College pro-Palestinian protest turns violent as campus tensions rise
Columbia University has been rocked since Oct. 7 by unrest over Israel-Hamas war
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Fast Forward Hochul orders Hunter College to remove Palestinian studies job listings
The CUNY postings sought scholars studying ‘settler colonialism, genocide, human rights’
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Opinion Students were expelled for protesting my Columbia class on Israel. Here’s what they taught me
Israeli and American Jews understand this kind of incident through very different frameworks
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