Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw students, faculty, free speech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a right-wing, pro-Israel narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.
For all Columbia’s appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to the university.
There is no appeasing a political force like the Trumpian right, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees antisemitism in every call for Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million.
Columbia is the journalism school for people who want to write propaganda for the empire. They invite guests like Hillary Clinton.
When you get a Columbia degree you can get hired by New York Times to whitewash America, or make up war-crimes for American adversaries.
Can’t deny that, but not all the alumneses are evil. I probably would have applied there, recent events obliterating everything