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NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University announced disciplinary action Tuesday against students who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the Ivy League school’s main library before final exams in May and an encampment during alumni weekend last year.

A student activist group said nearly 80 students were told they have been suspended for one to three years or expelled. The sanctions issued by a university judicial board also include probation and degree revocations, Columbia said in a statement.

The action comes as the Manhattan university is negotiating with President Donald Trump’s administration to restore $400 million in federal funding it has withheld from the Ivy League school over its handling of student protests against the war in Gaza. The administration pulled the funding, canceling grants and contracts, in March because of what it described as the university’s failure to squelch antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

adopting a new definition of antisemitism

Damn. Talk about unclear patch notes. Im assuming "antisemitism" now means "antiisraelism".

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In classic Israeli doublespeak, the IHRA definition of antisemitism states that criticism of Israel is not antisemitism... But actually it is.

IHRA starts off with valid points such as Holocaust denial. Then suddenly

"Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor."

"Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis."

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Current Israeli policy is like that of the Nazis in that both are genocidal. It's insane to call this true statement antisemitic.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Are you denying the Nazis their Reicht to self-determination on Polish land?! That's anti-white Racism.

[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

Or anti-genocide.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck you, Columbia. Can't wait to see you go down.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago

A shameful move from Columbia here.

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn't sound Ivy League to me.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

There goes your journalism school

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I find this part more upsetting than them paying out 200 million. Honestly though, if I was hiring, I'd probably value "I got kicked out of Columbia for standing up for what I believe in" as a plus.

And this is why my child will not be considering Columbia for college. Their mailings go straight to the trash.

Fuck all Abrahamic religions