Tags: student protests

The Case Against Mahmoud Khalil: How The Israel Lobby Fueled a Campus Crackdown

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Palestinian activist involved in organizing at Columbia University, is the result of more than a year of pro-Israeli think-tank propaganda and lobbying efforts to tie the students to Hamas and erode free speech protections in the United States.

Anne Applebaum of the Atlantic Magazine & Columbia’s Pulitzer Board advocated killing Palestinian journalists

Columbia, which manages & awards the Pulitzer prize, put someone who advocated killing Arab civilians in a position of power, helping determine who in journalism is worthy of its highest award, and creating an atmosphere on campus that makes clear to its Palestinian students that they are unworthy of normal protections under the laws of war.