Appeasement doesn't Work

Not with Trump and the right wing that is. A blistering article from the Intercept:

"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on Gaza.

In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia Gaza solidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.

The crackdown was just getting started.

There is no appeasing a political force like the Trumpian right.
Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from Barnard College, one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech. Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.

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."

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/

This is all after the University's President was forced to resign because she refused to commit to disciplining or even expelling students for chanting pro-Palestinian slogans that the right wing has decided are "antisemitic" in testimony before Congress. https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-president-minouche-shafik-resigns-2497a023eecdd267f3f9189e9f010fce

(That was real "cancel culture" not the pretend ones right wingers scream about).

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Not with Trump and the right wing that is. A blistering article from the Intercept:

"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on Gaza.

In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia Gaza solidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters ...[text shortened]... 3f9189e9f010fce

(That was real "cancel culture" not the pretend ones right wingers scream about).

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