Columbia’s attempt to try to “unprofessor” Proffessor Bruce Robbins

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Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster Columbia professor @BruceRobbins6 reveals new details about Columbia’s attempt to try to unprofessor him, to “thrown to the lions” in a new interview with @MiddleEastEye: @BruceRobbins6: “Students brought charges against me last spring, basically because I invited my class to visit the encampment on April 22nd…the circumstances were quite special because the …

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Jewish student from Columbia U expelled and fired from his job

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Last week, I was expelled from @Columbia for protesting the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. As president of @SW_Columbia, Columbia’s student workers union, I was also fired from my job. The Trump administration is pushing their narrative. Here’s the real story. Thousands of students across the country have been exercising our First Amendment rights to oppose …

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The Intercept: The Far-Right Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport

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© THE INTERCEPT has published an article on the Israeli group named Betar, written by John Valdez. Betar U.S. said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.” February 6 2025, 10:22 a.m. Article keypoints: On January 29, 2024, a vigil was held in New York …

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Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston: Teaching about Palestine is not antisemitic.

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On February 10, 2025 Elsa Auerbach, Professor Emerita at the UMass Boston, delivered a powerful speech at the MA Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism in defiance of the Commission’s recent attempts to silence teachers from educating students about anti-Palestinian racism. Professor Auerbach, a JVP member, and daughter of Holocaust refugees, spoke to the Commission’s continued repression …

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Documents reveal UC Davis spent $175,000 to erase pepper-spray incident from Internet

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9 May 2024 Written by Jason Pham and Alyssa Vandenberg – for the California Aggie campus@theaggie.org UC Davis nearly doubles strategic communications budget following string of negative incidences against the university’s image According to documents obtained by the Sacramento Bee, UC Davis spent at least $175,000 trying to repair its image following an incident in Nov. …

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Switzerland’s Bern University to ‘reorganize’ the Institute of the Study of the Middle east

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Sean Wallis @SeanAWallis – 26 April TL;DR Statement on the ISNO website The Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO) in its current form is closed and the academic field is reorganized Based on the findings of the report from the administrative investigation of the Institute for the Study of …

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