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Columbia punishes 22 students for pro-Palestine protests, activist group says
A campus activist group is now saying that the university has suspended, expelled or revoked degrees from a total of 22 students.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) said Columbia and affiliated Barnard College have expelled a total of nine students, describing the move as the “most number of expulsions ever issued in university history”.
“Columbia ‘s extreme reaction is a sign that the administration has lost all control of the narrative, desperate to still defend their genocidal record,” CUAD said in a post on X.
The action comes amid the continued detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student and green card holder arrested by US immigration authorities over his involvement in pro-Palestine campus protests.
BREAKING: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS JUST SUSPENDED, EXPELLED, AND REVOKED DEGREES FROM 22 STUDENTS FOR PROTESTING GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE
— CU Apartheid Divest (CUAD) (@ColumbiaBDS) March 13, 2025
Columbia union president among nine expelled over Palestine activism
The Student Workers of Columbia (SWC) union says its president Grant Miner is among the nine students expelled by the university.
In a statement, SWC said Miner was “expelled without evidence for participation in Palestine solidarity activism, which was in response to Columbia’s financial investment in US-backed Israeli genocide”.
SWC added that Miner’s expulsion “comes the day before we start bargaining” with the university’s administration over staff contracts.
It accused the university of escalating “retaliation against students, faculty and staff for pro-Palestine protest” in order to “appease the Trump administration”.
The White House withdrew some $400m in federal funding to Columbia this week, accusing it of failing to protect Jewish students during the campus protests last year.
