Columbia Janitors Held Hostage by Anti-Israel Mob Settle With School for Undisclosed Amount
"filed complaints against the school over their chilling experiences of being trapped by an anti-Israel mob and forced to scrub swastikas"...
"filed complaints against the school over their chilling experiences of being trapped by an anti-Israel mob and forced to scrub swastikas"...
“While the administration extracted a lot of meaningful concessions, maybe all it could, most of those concessions involve Columbia agreeing to follow the law, which it already is obligated to do.”...
"an agreement the university said will restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants the Trump administration had threatened to withhold"...
“Our institution must focus on delivering on its academic mission for our community.”...
"Trump administration officials and officials from Columbia are expected to meet next week at the White House, the source said."...
"It is the right thing to do for our students, and it is undeniable that the current situation at Columbia is untenable."...
"I can confirm that I have decided to leave Columbia and that the university's failure to take the anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American protests seriously is the reason."...
"Mamdani told The Times that aside from those college forms, he doesn’t recall ever identifying as Black or African American."...
"We need to get somebody from the middle east [sic] or who is Arab on our board"...
"accompanied now by private security"...
"Our democracy cannot very well function if individual judges issue extraordinary relief to every plaintiff who clamors to object to executive action."...
The judge's injunction won't "go into effect unless and until the Petitioner posts a nominal bond in the amount of $1."...
"was also arrested next to the campus in December 2024 for one of the three attacks against Jewish people of which he stands accused"...
Columbia "acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students, thereby violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." DoEd can't pull accreditation itself, which means there is unlikely to be any consequence to Columbia, which is acting like it already has...
"You see, we have our own people everywhere"...
"conduct that could constitute discriminatory harassment"...
"demanding freedom for Palestine and protesting the detainment of student activist Mahmoud Khalil"...
"The chants continued for nearly 30 seconds."...
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