Students who were seated at the Millstein Library on March 5.
(Lara-Nur Walton)
The Colombian College University Barnard gained three students in less than two weeks. On February 21, the school sent two participants of the rally for allegedly destructive a course on the history of modern Israel who taught Avi Shylon as well Former IDF soldiers. The last expulsion issued on February 28 is the first directed on the participant Hamilton Hall The profession, which took place on April 30 last year.
It First time in 57 years that the university kicked anyone on the protest, and Only official expulsion Related to Israel’s war in Gaza. The Colombian University of Apartheid deprives that this string of severe punishments is “completely unprecedented”, noting that the last expulsion of non -violent political protest took place in 1936 when Robert Berk Burke Berke was lined up for rallying Against Colombia’s ties with Nazism.
Latest recorded expulsions for non -dead demonstrations were in 1968When students fought against the Vietnam War and Harlem Harlem Harlem, occupying buildings and accepting the dean. Even then, acting President of Colombia Andrew W. Carder performed “Maximum locking” in cases of nearly 400 arrested and restored More than half of the suspended students.
In the following years, 1972. 1985. 1987. 1996and 2016Students are engaged in the estate, multi-storey absorptions and blockades on public concern-including US foreign policy, South African apartheids, racism on campus and university associations with fossil industry, not suffering the same disciplinary results. Indeed, the punishment of these previous activists, who participated in such forms of protest, as pro-Palestinian demonstrators, included disciplinary warnings either forced to write letters or led to a decrease in charges. No consequences were approaching the seriousness of the expulsion facing the protesters.
“Students have the right to protest in all institutions, including academic ones, especially if these Central Liberation Actions urge universities to get rid of genocide and warming,” said Cuad Press Nation. The Colombian University did not respond to a comment request.
To Barnard “I countless times said that he voiced my opinions and upholding what I know as true and good” one of the students who face expulsion – Note. “The fact that my removal happened so unfounded, simply because I believe that the Holocaust of the Palestinian people is definitely wrong, completely destroyed the illusion of what I thought was that Barnard was.”
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In response to the expulsion of Colombia, A National petition Barnard collected more than 120,000 signatures to recover expelled. The actions on the campus were also recruited accordingly. Kuad spent an excess of an hour seat February 26, approximately 100 Barnard and Colombia students who require the university to abolish expulsions, provide amnesty for disciplined for their proletinian activity, hold a public meeting between activists and administrators Barnard, and cancel college in college opaque Disciplinary procedures. During the seat that took place outside the office of Barnard Dina Leslie Grell, the demonstrators reported that they were physically attacked “truly aggressive” public safety staff.
Students left the seat “Only after Barnard agreed to agree on expulsions”; However, the organizers claim that the school was “restored on these conditions 25 minutes before the negotiations began the next day.” The next day, Kuod gathered a protest university protest, which once again called for Barnard to overcome the expulsion.
On March 5, dozens of students organized a seat at the Milstein Library, rethinking it “Dr. Hus Abu Sofia Liberated Zone” in honor of the director of the Gazana Hospital, which Israeli military arbitrarily detained In December 2024, the violation was a continuation of the action on February 26, which called for the restoration of exiled prolongs. Before getting into one hour, the Barnard administrators, including the Executive Vice President on Strategy and Chief Administrative Director Kelly A. Murray, and the vice-president of the society and success throughout Aj Oronstein-disabled “final” disciplinary messages in which they reported to the participants.
The activists continued to disrupt the leaflets and threw the flakes into the trash. “The university has never been an exception … for the students of the -Sanists. Even if hundreds of reports were made with indisputable evidence,” said one of the activists from the bull.
In January 2024, two Israeli students sprayed chemical On solidarity in gas that led to several hospitalization. No one was lined up. Instead they both were rejected for 18 months and in April one of two criminals sued 395 000 Dollars Payment by settlement.
About 4:50 eveningAmong the AS suspicious bomb danger And the shedding shower, the New York Police Department moved to the campus Barnard, pushing the members of the press and Arrested nine seat Participants.
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Kuad connects the recent acceleration of such punitive measures against Propestinian activists on Friday US Department of Justice on Friday Justice announcement What will visit 10 campus colleges that have “survived anti -Semitism cases since October 2023.” Colombia reported that according to Trump Executive orderThis would be one of the universities of the Federal Operational Group on Dr. Anti -Semitism.
“Colombia and Barnard are terrified Billionaire donors Because they are afraid to lose funding, “said Kuad’s press.” Barnard transferred an exception to one of the students only a day after the Ministry of Justice announced that she plans to visit the campus as part of a fake investigation into Palestine’s protest. “
After the university was informed about the quick visit of Doj, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services and General Services Administration announced The fact that the operational group on anti -Semitism also considers the possibility of stopping work orders for $ 51.4 million between the Colombian University and the Federal Government, while introducing more than $ 5 billion in federal grant commitments.
Against the backdrop of students’ pressure and government pressure, President Barnard Lisa Rosenbury wrote n-an ED during Chronicle of Higher Education Claiming that on February 26, her “line in the sand” was sitting and pledged to remove “from our community of those who refuse to share our values, inclusion and perfection in their studies.” The article states that student activists “exploit conflict in the Middle East to try to break our campus community … apart.”
In response, Kuad wrote that the prompt Red Rosebury “dinner on the deaths of thousands of Palestinians who financially abandoned the abandonment of our university to deprive weapons and Israeli corporations.”
In addition, “she evicted dozens of students last spring,” Kueda said, expanding the role of the college’s president in the destabilization of the campus, eliminating the excess 50 activists Barnard ‘ Access to education, food, housing and medical care through a temporary suspension. “Her readiness to demonize the participants of the action, the requirements of which were simple transparency in the disciplinary process, which failed to remove … their classmates … must concern current students and graduates.”
According to Kuad, “dangerous precedent” and embody “dangerous precedent” and embody “The exception of Palestine“Freedom of speech. In light of the prolonged presses of Israel on gas that most recently include fatal blockade Humanitarian aid in the besieged lane and violation From the alleged ceasefire, Kuad says that “students still believe that this is a duty to fight for free Palestine and implemented different methods of evading Colombia’s repression” to continue the fight.
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