Columbia president weighs new limits on protests after months of unrest on campus
After five months of controversy and protests, Columbia University’s president appears poised to restrict demonstrations on campus at New York City’s only Ivy.demand that the university divest from Israel, and recommended the president impose new limits on campus demonstrations.
The developments indicate a realignment toward “university neutrality” occurring throughout the Ivy League, experts said. Students on all sides of the ongoing conflict in Israel and Gaza continue to criticize the administration for not doing enough to make them feel safe. A lawsuit filed in February on behalf of pro-Israel students described Columbia as “one of the worst centers of academic antisemitism in the United States.”
“We’ve been seeing policy change after policy change, especially this semester. The repression has been bad,” said Maryam Alwan, a leader of Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine and a fourth-year student at the university. “It makes me feel completely erased, they don’t want us to exist at all, with or without demonstrations.”
A separate report by the Task Force on Antisemitism, which recommended new limits on demonstrations, criticized pro-Palestinian protesters’ conduct. Shafik convened the task force as protests rocked the campus in November.
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