Posted on 03/24/2025 10:55:05 PM PDT by Libloather
A group of people continued marching and circling around the main gate of Columbia University on Monday afternoon, banging loud drums and chanting, "Long live the intifada."
Their actions come shortly after Columbia University professors held what they called an "emergency vigil" in response to the college's agreement to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department following demands from the Trump administration.
The group gathered outside the university's gates on 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, holding signs that read "defend democracy," "defend teaching" and "Columbia, fight back."
Though the arrest of prominent anti-Israel activist and legal permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil by federal immigration officials was mentioned, activists used the opportunity to speak about numerous grievances with the school.
"Now, the Trump administration is attacking Columbia as a target to coerce other universities as well to fall in line with the authoritarian regime of the Trump administration," Risa L. Lieberwitz, professor of labor and employment law at Cornell University, said during the news conference.
She added that one of her international graduate students is being "hunted right now by federal immigration authorities."
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Earlier this month, the Trump administration pulled $400 million in research grants and other funding over how the university handled protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. In order to consider restoring those funds and billions more in future grants, federal officials demanded nine separate changes to the university's academic and security policies.
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Failing to go to work or school to protest at your work or school should automatic termination.
Federal taxpayer dollars should be pulled from every school in the country. Only a handful of colleges take no federal money, in order to preserve their freedom and independence: https://deanclancy.com/a-list-of-colleges-that-dont-take-federal-money/
This mask thing has to be stopped. Not acceptable.
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Well actually anyone still wearing a mask self identifies as a leftest.
We have our red baseball caps, they have the mask.
Please, all leftest continue wearing your smelly old mask.
They’re upset that the federal government won’t continue to subsidize their pogrom .
Columbia isn’t about education. Its goal is Marxist indoctrination.
Columbia needs to be shut down. We attacked Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 because they were terrorist headquarters and training areas. Now, Columbia has taken that job. The least we can do is just the joint down and deport all the terrorists programming the low I.Q. idiots there.
Faculty urging students to skip class says everything about the institution’s view of education.
Hey, parents: Your children can skip class for free, you know.
Well, fire them.
That has to be against the rules of the university and for their employment.
Time to get rid of the feminist lesbians that have destroyed the university system.
It also says a lot about what those faculty members think about America and Americans.
It IS.
Masks - the new Swastika
Yes, that too.
It’s obvious that any instructor who encourages students to skip classes must be immediately fired. This ought to be a key Trump policy for resumption of any grants to any university.
Take away Columbia’s accreditation. That will rile things up a bit.
Imagine hiring someone with a degree in Middle Eastern studies from Columbia University.
I am sure that will work out just fine.
Columbia university is afraid of losing their federal grift, but they can’t control the activist legions they helped to create.
Let them have their protests, that just brings the end even faster.
Just like the dim party they have not learned a thing.😂
Fire these professors.
These “faculty” don’t deserve their title or their jobs, and are what is wrong with our colleges and universities.
> Skip class. Flunk out. Work at Starbucks. <
Same result without the massive student loan debt.
EC
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