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The Godfather of the Campus Intifada
Today’s protesters—at Columbia and beyond—owe their worldview to professor Edward Said, whose obsession with the West blinded him to the reality of the…
Eli Lake
No Deportations Without Due Process
The public deserves clarity on these cases. So we called the State Department.
The Editors
Columbia President Says One Thing to Trump Admin—and Another in Private
In a call with faculty, Katrina Armstrong says the school plans not to stick to some of its agreements with the Trump administration.
Maya Sulkin
Lawsuit Targets Anti-Israel Campus Leaders for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ Hamas
Complaint alleges student organizations are providing ‘material support’ to terror groups.
Maya Sulkin
Alan Dershowitz: Mahmoud Khalil Deserves Speech Rights, Not Sympathy
The anti-Israel green card holder’s behavior may be constitutionally defensible, but it’s still morally condemnable.
Alan Dershowitz
Fight Club: Should Mahmoud Khalil Be Deported?
Hussein Aboubakr Mansour says the Columbia student’s deportation is just and necessary. Eli Lake believes it sets a dangerous precedent for free speech.
Eli Lake and Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Tells Columbia How to Get Its $400M Back
Ivy League college told to ban masks, expel or suspend students who promote Jew-hate, and put a department under ‘academic receivership’ for five years.
Frannie Block and Maya Sulkin
Both Left and Right Are Wrong About Mahmoud Khalil
Anyone who says the law is obvious here is not telling the truth.
Jed Rubenfeld
The ICE Detention of a Columbia Student Is Just the Beginning
A White House official says that Mahmoud Khalil posed a ‘threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.’ And that…
Gabe Kaminsky, Madeleine Rowley, and Maya Sulkin
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
Maya Sulkin and Gabe Kaminsky
Deborah Lipstadt: Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia
I was Biden’s antisemitism envoy. I had been considering an academic appointment at the Ivy League institution. Not anymore.
Deborah Lipstadt
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