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The school announced discipline Tuesday for two pro-Palestinian protests but did not specify how many demonstrators had been punished.
The university is also committing not to meet with its most prominent pro-Palestinian group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, nor any affiliated groups,
Hearings in cases over Trump's efforts to deport protesters and pull Harvard's federal funding were both held in a Boston courthouse on July 21.
Columbia University on Tuesday announced it has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism. The move is part of significant campus reforms the institution is making ahead of a possible funding deal with the Trump administration.
Acting Columbia President Claire Shipman announced the university will rely on a definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance , or IHRA. That definition has been criticized by Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, Amnesty International and an array of other groups as conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.
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T o do the same thing over and over and expect a different result is one definition of insanity. According to Robert Shibley, a special counsel of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), it’s also Columbia University’s approach to addressing anti-Semitism on campus.
As Trump exploits disdain for antisemitism to execute his own personal crusade against higher education, his laser focus on Jewish students and faculty becomes exploitive in and of itself.
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Harvard University may create a conservative center for scholarship to promote “viewpoint diversity” as the Ivy League school grapples with Trump administration allegations of campus antisemitism and being too liberal, according to a report.
The university plans to offer additional anti-discrimination training in partnership with Jewish organizations. Some other measures could prove controversial.
The US says the UN's culture and education body is promoting "divisive social and cultural causes" - a claim the agency denies.