Free Gaza, free speech and the showdown at Columbia University

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Despite efforts to quash pro-Palestinian protests on campus, students continue to organise and demand divestment from companies with ties to Israel, as the US witnesses an 'Ivy League spring.'

Despite efforts to quash pro-Palestinian protests on campus, students continue to organise and demand divestment from companies with ties to Israel, as the US witnesses an "Ivy League spring."

In 1997, we shut down the campus with a giant human circle in support of striking workers on campus who were mistreated and underpaid.

In her testimony before the House of Representatives about rising anti-Semitism concerns on campus last week, Shafik looked comfortable engaging in the charade. As the cynical circus played out in the nation's capital, students seized the national and international moment to escalate the struggle to halt the genocidal madness raining down on Gaza.

Has US society stopped to think of the impact of the genocidal violence raining down on Gaza on Palestinian-American students?The Columbia administration's response has been to ignore the students and resort to the age-old trick of

 

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