Columbia University quad was never public — can close anytime despite local outrage, NYC says
The Big Apple supports Columbia University in the war to keep the gates closed. City lawyers said Ivy League schools should be allowed to block the public from their beloved community spaces on the Morningside Heights campus. “It’s always been private property,” Rachel Moston, a senior adviser to the City Department of Justice, argued in […]
FLASHBACK: Dems defend Harvard, Columbia from Trump funding cuts, despite backing same legal precedent in 1983
Democrats are now defending elite universities like Harvard and Columbia from threats to federal funding and tax-free positions, as they allegedly violated public policy, despite once defending the same legal precedent. The left defended the 1983 Bob Jones University vs. US ruling. At the time, Democrats agreed with the federal government’s claim that institutions engaged […]
ICE agents snatch anti-Israel Columbia protester Mohsen Madawi during his US citizenship appointment
Immigration agents caught anti-Israel Columbia University protesters while they were appointed to obtain US citizenship in Vermont on Monday. Mohsen Madawi, a Palestinian student from the West Bank, spent 10 years in the United States and obtained a green card before being detained in the US Office of USCIS (USCIS) in Burlington. According to Intercept. […]
Anti-Israel Columbia University Protester Arrested by ICE
An anti-Israel protester from Columbia University was arrested Monday by US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents at Vermont’s Immigration Bureau. Mohsen Madawi, student leader of anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, was later arrested. arrival According to Intercept, the Office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Colchester, Vermont. According to the outlet, in the aftermath […]
Bernie Sanders, Democrats decry arrest of another pro-Palestine Columbia protestor
Lighting up the Greenlights Deportation incident against Mahmoud Khalil Former federal prosecutor Neema Ramani joins Fox & Friends Weekend to break the legal ruling, move forward with deportation proceedings against Mahmoud Khalil and share updates on the case of the Menendez brothers. Another Palestinian-Columbia student protester was detained by federal immigration authorities in Vermont on […]
Protesters rally in Times Square calling for release of anti-Israel Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil
Anti-Israel demonstrators marched in Times Square on Saturday night to protest the arrest and imprisonment of Colombian graduate student Mahmoud Khalil. Animated Khalil supporters withstanded the rain in Midtown, chanting and displaying signs including “Free Mahmoud Khalil Now!”, “Missing our Student's Hands”, and various other slogans. Controversial anti-Israel advocate Linda Sarsool spoke at the event […]
Columbia U Must ‘Comply’ to Regain $400M in Canceled Funding
Columbia University “must adhere and comply with the public agreement to crack down on anti-Israel protests if Ivy League schools want to reclaim $400 million in cancelled funding, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Tuesday. When asked by a reporter, McMahon replied, “What if it becomes clear that Colombia does not meet its requirements and that […]
Federal officials blocked from seeking arrest, deportation of Columbia student
Immigration authorities have been ordered by a federal judge to stop efforts to arrest Columbia University students who worked in Palestinian demonstrations. US District Judge Naomi Buchold issued the restraining order Tuesday, a day after the student filed the lawsuit. Yoon Zeo Chung, who has been living in the United States since she was seven, […]
Columbia University pushed by Trump administration to commit to campus deal
Columbia's interim president reportedly has publicly doubled her commitment to implementing mask bans and other policy changes by the Trump administration. Katrina Armstrong, interim president of the university that fought, issued a public statement on Tuesday, replied with regrets about the “confusion” and acknowledging her claim that the Trump Order's policy changes were “real.” However, […]
Sanders slams Trump for trying to deport Columbia student: 'You can't exile political dissidents'
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has condemned the Trump administration's attempt to deport Columbia University students who participated in the pro-Palestinian protests on campus. “You can't exile political dissidents, you're not in the US,” Sanders wrote. Tuesday's post x. His comments came hours after a federal judge ruled that 21-year-old legal permanent resident, Yoon Zeo Chung, […]