November 15th, 20240NEW YORK CITY — Columbia University has agreed to pay $395,000 to one of two Jewish students who were suspended in January after spraying student demonstrators with a foul-smelling substance during a pro-Palestine campus protest.
The incident occurred during a Jan. 19 rally organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a...
September 6th, 20240NEW YORK — On Tuesday, two arrests were made as pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside Columbia University, just as students returned to class for the fall semester.
The NYPD put up barricades and anyone entering the campus was subject to an identification screening.
A university spokesperson released the following...
May 8th, 20240Pro-Palestinian protests demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from companies linked to Israel have spread across U.S. universities in the two weeks since Columbia University administrators called in police to dismantle an encampment on their New York City campus.
Below is a timeline of significant events in the biggest wave of...
May 6th, 20240The mass protests at dozens of U.S. universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about anti-Semitism.
Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting, risking their own futures and very safety, because of some pathological hate for the Jewish people. They are doing so in a complete...
April 19th, 20240NEW YORK — Police officers arrest more than 100 people following a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University. According to law enforcement officials, protesters were arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal trespass. They'd camped on the lawn in efforts to stand as the "Gaza solidarity Encampment", according to reports.
Mayor...
January 27th, 20240
Protesters at Columbia University were allegedly sprayed with a hazardous chemical while attending a pro-Palestinian “divestment now” rally on Low Steps on Friday, Jan. 19, according to nearly two dozen students who reported a foul smell, physical symptoms or property damage after the protest.
The Columbia Spectator...
April 8th, 20210DEARBORN HEIGHTS — 18-year-old Zaharaa Altwaij, a senior at Crestwood High School, has been accepted to three prestigious universities.
Altwaij received acceptances to Harvard, Yale and Columbia.
With an intended major in mind, Altwaij said she applied to see what was out there.
“My intended major is biomedical...
