Columbia’s long been run more like the vast business empire, than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the HudsonIt was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine. That is what the gagging of protesting students, and now the gagging of faculty, was always meant to lead to. While partisans of the Israeli-American mass slaughter in Gaza may have been offended by their protests, large numbers of the students whose rights of free speech have been infringed upon via draconian punishments were themselves Jewish.Many of those faculty members who are about to be deprived of academic freedom and faculty governance, and perhaps fired, are themselves Jewish, indeed some are Israelis. If it were ever really about discrimination, the university would have taken action against the ceaseless harassment of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students and faculty, and their allies and supporters, instead of endorsing and enabling it.Rashid Khalidi ...
According to Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University, acting more like a business empire than an educational institution, has silenced protesting students and faculty under the guise of combating antisemitism, while the real aim was to suppress pro-Palestine voices. The author contends this action protects the false narrative justifying Israel's actions in Gaza and reflects a racist dehumanization of Palestinians.
