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While college students on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict say they feel unheard and abandoned, young people who won’t take a stand argue those feelings are also true for them.

He was delivering the Gabriel Silver Memorial Lecture at Columbia University’s World Leaders Forum in New York.  Read more at straitstimes.com.

The war in Gaza has shifted something in the psyche of New York — at workplaces and in restaurants, on university campuses and in playgrounds, over Instagram and along lampposts.

NEW YORK — Columbia University is barring two pro-Palestinian student groups from holding campus activities for the remainder of the fall semester, college officials announced Friday. Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace will lose university funding and the eligibility to hold events on campus. The student groups will need to demonstrate a “commitment to compliance with ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Columbia University has suspended two pro-Palestinian student groups — Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine — saying they violated university policies

The announcement of the suspension comes after Jewish groups and state legislators signed a letter demanding universities withdraw their schools’ recognition and funding for SJP following October 7.

Protesters marched at campuses and through Midtown on Thursday as anger and fear over the war in the Middle East escalated.

American campuses have long been hotbeds of anti-Israel sentiment, but in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacres, some givers are drawing a line at student groups praising the terrorists

NEW YORK — Columbia University has postponed a major fundraising drive in the latest sign that on-campus turmoil caused by the Israel-Hamas war is not only testing the limits of free speech on campus but is also poised to affect the institution’s pocketbook. Columbia Giving Day, an annual event in which alumni and donors around the world are asked to donate to the university, was scheduled for this Wednesday. It was called off last week with no new date announced. Last year, the ev...

The rally by Students for Justice in Palestine faced organized counterprotesters, increased police presence, and limitations to access and assembly.