Columbia University suspends students over pro-Palestinian event with 'known' terrorism supporters [View all]

NEW YORK — Columbia University is suspending multiple pro-Palestinian students for an unsanctioned campus event with “known” supporters of terrorism, as the university tries to respond to campus tensions during the Israel-Hamas war, President Minouche Shafik announced Friday.

At least four students currently face disciplinary action in connection with the panel, “Resistance 101,” on March 24, according to student newspaper Columbia Spectator. Another two students who were initially suspended had the discipline reversed, it said.

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According to social media posts, the webinar, which students could view remotely or with a group on campus, featured Khaled Barakat, a Palestinian activist, among other speakers. In the clip, Barakat tells students that his “friends and brothers” in Hamas and Islamic Jihad are looking to “students organizing outside Palestine” as they try to “stop the Israeli aggression and defeat Israel.” “I did not become a university president to punish students,” Shafik said. “At the same time, actions like this on our campus must have consequences.”

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