On Tuesday, September 29, Mahmoud Khalil (SIPA ’25) celebrated the launch of his new book, No Land to Stand on: Notes from Detention. He and Donziger discussed Khalil’s life before Columbia, as well as his experiences in detention and his current lawsuits against Columbia University and the United States Government. 

On Tuesday, a group of Jewish demonstrators held a protest on Low steps, condemning the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil and affirming that “immigrants are welcome here” amid ICE presence around Columbia’s campus.

Palestinian activist and Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil was detained by ICE on Saturday in what appears to be one of the first enforcement of President Trump’s policy targeting international students involved in anti-war protests.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest held a protest in the Milstein Center lobby on Wednesday, March 5. Demonstrators expressed a number of demands, including the reinstating of three expelled students and a public meeting with Barnard President Laura Rosenbury and Dean Leslie Grinage.

On Monday, March 3, Barnard President Laura Rosenbury published an op-ed in The Chronicle Of Higher Education addressing recent student protests and student expulsions. Rosenbury shared the op-ed in an email to the Barnard community on Tuesday, March 4.

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.