Art Exhibit at Columbia Accuses University of Enabling ‘Genocide’ in Gaza
“On display at the May exhibition was a keffiyeh—a recognizable headscarf widely associated with the 2024 pro-Palestine protests and donned by many student participants.”
The left clearly thinks that saying this same thing over and over again makes it true. It doesn’t.
Campus Reform reports:
Columbia art exhibit accuses university of enabling ‘genocide’ in Gaza
A featured Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) thesis exhibition at Columbia University accused the university of participating in “genocide” in Gaza.
The exhibition, headlined by artist Alejandro Valencia, was on view at Columbia University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery from April 26 to May 24, according to Hyperallergic.
Valencia is described on a Columbia University School of the Arts web page as having earned his MFA in spring 2026. He is currently working as an adjunct assistant professor of visual arts at the university for the summer 2026 term.
A Feb. 2 post by Columbia News details that Valencia curates and displays his own art projects. He previously led other university exhibitions.
On display at the May exhibition was a keffiyeh—a recognizable headscarf widely associated with the 2024 pro-Palestine protests and donned by many student participants. The keffiyeh was meant to reify Columbia’s supposed suppression of pro-Palestine campus activism.
Other art displays included two sharpened pencils pointing at one another meant to show aggressive division over the Israel-Hamas conflict and its effects on Columbia University’s campus, as well as a broken microphone meant to signify how the university has allegedly suppressed pro-Palestinian viewpoints.
In Valencia’s exhibit, another item on display was a speaker that played sounds of bombs, New York city subways, and recordings of protests; which were paired as a means to represent how Morningside Heights, where Columbia University is located in New York City, distorts campus activism.
Campus Reform has routinely monitored anti-Israel activism at Columbia University.
For example, information surfaced back in 2024 revealing several organizations linked to George Soros were paying students and organizers to start protests on campuses like Columbia.
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Part of the palestinian [playbook: a;ways play the victim. By no means have “pro-palestinina” voices been surpressed. Quite the opposite, and we all know it. The only “acceptable” and allowable viewpoint you can hold at Columbia is pro Palestinian, anything else will get you shunned, banned and/or attacked.
I remember the student design contest we had to standardize all the signs in every building of our college.
Restroom. Telephones. Push/Pull. Dining Hall. Quiet Zone. Genocide. Fire Exit.
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