Columbia and Barnard staff members published an open letter demanding the University cease its “targeted firings of Columbia University and Barnard College workers for their participation in the movement for a free Palestine and divestment from Israel.” The letter has amassed over 350 signatories from students and other University affiliates as of the afternoon of […]

On the morning of Columbia’s first day of Fall 2024 classes, more than 100 student protestors formed a picket in front of the 116th Street gates. Columbia University Apartheid Divest described the protest as opposing Columbia’s investments in the bombs falling on Gazan universities and contributions to “scholasticide” in Palestine.

Students rally outside President Shafik’s house for the semesterly primal scream to protest the April 30 arrests. Read live updates here.

The University addresses the April 30 arrests. Read live updates here.

At 4 am on Wednesday, April 17, Columbia students constructed a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in protest of the University’s response to pro-Palestinian students. Protests began at 10 am on Wednesday and continued through Thursday, overlapping with the time of Minouche Shafik’s testimony before Congress regarding antisemitism at Columbia.