I'm in favor of a healthy debate over tactics, but it needs to include this history.

columbia university admin threatened immediate expulsion for students occupying hind hall but couldn’t expel the students who attacked us with chemical weapons, despite hospitalizing 15 people.

Columbia still has its official website up lionizing the protesters of 1968 who occupied university buildings to protest the Vietnam War until the NYPD, in Columbia's own words, 'stormed' campus, creating a 'fallout that dogged Columbia for years.' news.columbia.edu/content/new-pe…

UNC cancelled all classes. USC cancelled graduation. CCNY cancelled its food pantry. Columbia cancelled EVERYTHING. As rachel h h 🌹 put it, “no medical appts, no studio or practice space. no lectures, no concerts. just the pure administrative university & its disciplinary power.”

In the spring of 1985 we padlocked the front doors of Hamilton Hall, renaming it Mandela Hall, and encamped on the steps for three weeks. Columbia divested from South Africa in the fall of 1985.

The school that administers the Pulitzer Prizes will not be allowing press on campus 🥴

All very bad. But we shld catch on to the fact that how much a country spends on its own defense budget is irrelevant to Trump. Why wld he give a crap about that? Totally irrelevant to him. Not money in his or his govt's pocket. It's transactional. He wants obedience, favors.

Over 800 arrests at college campuses in solidarity with Palestine. So far.

As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of billionaires, is language. Language has been deployed to mean the exact opposite of what it really means when they talk about democracy or freedom.

—Arundhati Roy

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Note—this was all *before* the encampment protests began:

Is Columbia safe for Jewish students? We talked to a billionaire alumnus who lives in Massachusetts and a 35 year-old antisemite who’s unaffiliated with the university.

These kids are so much better than the soul-dead lunkheads who rule America.

Laying out the welcome mat for snipers while suspending students. The American university is fundamentally broken.

How do you go back to school after they brought out snipers on you?

This is virtually the only honest head that has appeared on this topic lately.

Wow! Hamline University in MN may be the first University to grant amnesty to the student encampment for Gaza and even granted the students a meeting with the president of the University and the chair of the board of trustees to hear their demands for the school's divestment.

I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

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They want you to believe the Chair of the Philosophy department is the threat to western values and not the masked, armed man brutalising her for expressing anti-war sentiment