#ColumbiaUniversity expels, suspends and revokes degrees of 22 students

The move comes after #Trump demanded several changes to be instituted at the university in return for federal funding

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 14 March 2025 19:58 GMT

"Columbia University leadership made a series of concessions to the Trump administration on Thursday following an extraordinary letter that listed nine demands it expected the university to make if it did not want its federal funding to be pulled.

On Thursday, the university announced it was expelling, suspending and revoking the degrees of 22 students following last year’s Hamilton Hall protest, fulfilling one of the nine demands issued in a letter from the Trump administration to Columbia."

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Columbia University expels, suspends and revokes degrees of 22 students

^{Syma Mohammed (Middle East Eye)}

BREAKING: #MahmoudKhalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention

#Khalil will likely stay at notorious #ICE facility in Louisiana until at least March 17.

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Jason Paladino
Mar 13, 2025

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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention

Khalil will likely stay at notorious ICE facility in Louisiana until at least March 17.

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Very important recording. Evening with #FrancescaAlbanese #UN special rapporteur on the Occupied
Palestinian Territories and #OmarBarghouti founder of the #BDS movement

youtube.com/watch?v=h_etuTJThB…

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#Israel Presses Ahead With Raids in the #WestBank

At least 10 people have been killed in the raids, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Dozens have been arrested, #Palestinian officials told the Wafa news agency.

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]

By Lara Jakes, Fatima Abdul Karim, and Hiba Yazbek
Jan. 22, 2025 Updated 8:58 a.m. ET

“The #Jenin battalion of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an armed group loosely affiliated with #Fatah, the political faction that controls the #PalestinianAuthority, said in a statement...that its fighters were engaged in “fierce clashes” with #Israeli forces in several areas of Jenin and had detonated explosive devices.”

nytimes.com/2025/01/22/world/m…

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Over 125,000 March in #London Against #Israel's #Gaza Genocide

"All of you here are beacons of hope in this darkness," said one demonstrator in a speech to the massive crowd.

From #CommomDreams
Jon Queally
Nov 30, 2024

commondreams.org/news/london-p…

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Over 125,000 March in London Against Israel's Gaza Genocide

^{jon-queally (Common Dreams)}

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
Why #Israeli leaders admit if they were #Palestinian they would fight for freedom

Joseph Massad
16 September 2024 16:24 BST
#JosephMassad is professor of modern #Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, New York.

Despite their colonial racism, many prominent #Zionist figures have acknowledged that if they were Palestinian, they would have fought for their homeland

middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra…

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Why Israeli leaders admit if they were Palestinian they would fight for freedom

Despite their colonial racism, many prominent Zionist figures have acknowledged that if they were Palestinian, they would have fought for their homeland

^{Middle East Eye}

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in USA]

How we’ll keep fighting genocide after Election Day.

jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2024/1…

#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#WestBankUnderAttack
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
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#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
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How we’ll keep fighting genocide after Election Day. - JVP

While we don’t know what will happen next week on Election Day, we know that our commitments don’t change.

^{Sarah Burch (Jewish Voice for Peace)}

from #ShutItDown4Palestine

Childen's Day — Shut It Down for #Palestine
Children’s Days of Action
November 7-10, 2024

shutitdown4palestine.org/child…

#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#WestBankUnderAttack
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
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I've seen this around social media a few times, and I wanted to share it.

#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#WestBankUnderAttack
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics #MiddleEast
@palestine @israel

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
WestBank: Armed settlers attack #Palestinians on first day of olive harvest

Palestinian villagers say this was the ‘most brutal’ assault they have ever endured

middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba…

By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 6 October 2024 12:35 BST

#WestBankUnderAttack
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
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#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Israel #Palestine #politics #MiddleEast
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

West Bank: Armed settlers attack Palestinians on first day of olive harvest

As the olive harvest season began in Palestine, Hasem Salama took his family to their land in the al-Lubban al-Gharbi village, northwest of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

^{Fayha Shalash (Middle East Eye)}