Columbia Faculty for Justice in Palestine Announce Boycott of Commencement Until Demands Are Met
“halt all disciplinary proceedings against students, including lifting suspensions”
It seems like everyone on the left has a list of demands these days.
The Columbia Spectator reports:
Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine announce boycott of Commencement, other events until demands are met
Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College announced new demands around 3:15 p.m. on Friday at the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” calling upon faculty to stage an “academic boycott of all events” and boycott Commencement until demands are met.
The coalition demanded that the University halt all disciplinary proceedings against students, including lifting suspensions; comply with Columbia University Apartheid Divest’s divestment proposal to the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing; remove the New York Police Department from within and directly outside the Morningside campus; and reinstate Columbia’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.
“FSJP-CBT, Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College, is appalled by the police action against peaceful students on campus on Thursday, April 18, 2024,” a member of FSJP-CBT said, announcing the demands. “In solidarity with our students, faculty, within Columbia, Barnard, Teachers College, and students and faculty around the world, we ask for the following immediate actions.”
The demands come on the heels of mass arrests of 108 individuals who participated in the Wednesday encampment. As of Friday afternoon, dozens of individuals continue to occupy the South Lawn.
FSJP-CBT also announced its “broad support” of a “no confidence vote” against University President Minouche Shafik, General Counsel Felice B. Rosan, Chief Operating Officer Cas Halloway, and board of trustees co-chairs David Greenwald, Law ’83, and Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94.
“Our faculty governance just got thrown under the bus,” Neferti Tadiar, professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard and a member of FSJP-CBT, said in an interview with Spectator.
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Cancel their student visas, and deport the crazed extremists.
Tough cookies. They’re going to need a bigger jail.
Let them stay home or spout their garbage on their own time
I’d ask them “Promise?”. The presumption that it makes any difference if they attend or not is a post card for academic lunacy.
Fire them all for cause, with complete loss of benefits.
At my alma mater, the college would boycott their paychecks, benefits and access to college property—and them.