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Columbia faculty hold 'emergency vigil,' urge students to wear mask, skip class to protest Trump
Fox News ^ | 3/24/25 | Pilar Arias

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."

**SNIP**

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: academia; antisemitism; antizionism; columbia; cornell; education; emergency; enemycombatants; faculty; islam; jihad; masks; muslims; palestinians; palestinkians; protest; risalieberwitz; rop; terrorism; terrorists
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To: Libloather
[Columbia faculty hold 'emergency vigil,' urge students to wear mask, skip class to protest Trump]

Brilliant!!! Screaming at the Sky works too!!!





21 posted on 03/25/2025 1:53:10 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Libloather

Failing to go to work or school to protest at your work or school should automatic termination.


22 posted on 03/25/2025 2:00:45 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: minnesota_bound

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/


23 posted on 03/25/2025 2:17:26 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: toddausauras

This mask thing has to be stopped. Not acceptable.

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.


24 posted on 03/25/2025 2:26:06 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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To: All

They’re upset that the federal government won’t continue to subsidize their pogrom .


25 posted on 03/25/2025 2:31:40 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Libloather

Columbia isn’t about education. Its goal is Marxist indoctrination.


26 posted on 03/25/2025 3:23:11 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: Libloather

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.


27 posted on 03/25/2025 3:35:29 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Bureaucratic District "Judges" are the greatest threat to America and Americans.)
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To: Libloather

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.


28 posted on 03/25/2025 3:56:40 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Libloather

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.


29 posted on 03/25/2025 4:05:20 AM PDT by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS )
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To: Tax-chick
Faculty urging students to skip class says everything about the institution’s view of education.

It also says a lot about what those faculty members think about America and Americans.

30 posted on 03/25/2025 4:14:08 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Paladin2

It IS.


31 posted on 03/25/2025 4:23:01 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Masks - the new Swastika


32 posted on 03/25/2025 4:24:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: neverevergiveup

Yes, that too.


33 posted on 03/25/2025 4:39:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong?)
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To: Libloather

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.


34 posted on 03/25/2025 5:23:38 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Freud: projection is a defense mechanism of those struggling with inferiority complexes)
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To: Libloather

Take away Columbia’s accreditation. That will rile things up a bit.


35 posted on 03/25/2025 5:23:57 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud Member of the Anti-Fancy party since March 2025)
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To: Libloather
"...conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department"

Imagine hiring someone with a degree in Middle Eastern studies from Columbia University.

I am sure that will work out just fine.

36 posted on 03/25/2025 5:32:45 AM PDT by JoeVortex (I'm rather enjoying the trips around the Sun I have left!)
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To: Libloather

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.😂


37 posted on 03/25/2025 5:36:47 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Libloather

Fire these professors.


38 posted on 03/25/2025 5:37:45 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Libloather

These “faculty” don’t deserve their title or their jobs, and are what is wrong with our colleges and universities.


39 posted on 03/25/2025 6:16:31 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

> Skip class. Flunk out. Work at Starbucks. <

Same result without the massive student loan debt.

EC


40 posted on 03/25/2025 6:25:40 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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