Columbia to open learning center in Israel despite faculty outrage

Columbia University is establishing a new learning center in Israel.“The state of Israel, through formal and informal law, policy, and practice, refuses to abide by international human rights laws and norms both domestically and in its treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories,” she wrote on Feb. 16.

Netanyahu returned to office last fall after being the first Israeli prime minister to face corruption charges for bribery, breach of trust and fraud.Franke cited “substantial concern about the power of donor money” in the university’s decision to move forward with the center, saying it violated the “principles of faculty governance.”

“For a country its size, Israel has an unusually rich infrastructure of universities and other scholarly, cultural, religious, scientific, technological, legal, and artistic resources that have intellectual connections to every school at Columbia University,” a letter authored by political science professor Ester Fuchs reads.

The statement of support was also signed by Columbia Journalism School’s dean Nicholas Lemann, Columbia Law School’s dean emeritus David Schizer and law professor Matthew Waxman.

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