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Civil rights leaders launch 'UnMaskHateNY' campaign as city grapples with 'alarming' rise in antisemitism
June 27, 2024 | 6:00am"UnMaskHateNY will hold those who engage in this harmful conduct accountable and make all of our communities safer."
Answer us, Columbia and DA Bragg: Why drop rioters' charges?
June 25, 2024 | 5:05pmBragg’s refusal to pursue criminal consequences for most of the pro-Hamas protesters charged with trespassing — claiming a lack of evidence — has broadly undermined trust in our legal institutions'...
NYC activists slam DA Bragg for dropping charges against anti-Israel Columbia protesters
June 24, 2024 | 4:24pmDozens of protesters swarmed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s building Monday to rip him for nixing charges against members of the anti-Israel mob that attacked Columbia University — calling the move...
Three Columbia deans placed on leave over disparaging text exchange during antisemitism panel
June 21, 2024 | 8:08pmThree deans at Columbia University have been put on leave after sending hostile text messages, including a vomiting face emoji, during a panel discussion about antisemitism at a recent alumni...
DA Bragg cuts 'em loose, again
June 21, 2024 | 7:23pmAlvin Bragg just dismissed the cases of 31 of the 46 hooligans charged with occupying Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in April.
Columbia University NYC subway station defaced with bright red anti-Israel graffiti
June 21, 2024 | 2:20pmThe Columbia University subway station was defaced with anti-Israel graffiti in bright red paint this week -- months after protesters occupied the Ivy League campus.
Outrage as Manhattan DA Bragg’s office drops nearly all cases from Columbia University’s anti-Israel protest
June 20, 2024 | 6:30pmNearly all the protesters charged with storming and occupying Columbia University's campus during heated anti-Israel demonstrations won't face criminal charges, Manhattan prosecutors announced Thursday -- drawing outrage from law enforcement...
Columbia prof told students not to watch mainstream media because 'it is owned by Jews': report
June 17, 2024 | 9:33pm“My heart was broken listening to these students and what they were being forced to deal with,” Fuchs told the news outlet.
Second suspect busted in attack on Jewish Columbia University student pelted with rocks: cops
June 13, 2024 | 3:29pmZuhdi Ahmed, 20, of Ossining, was arrested just after 6 a.m. and slapped with multiple charges – including assault and menacing as hate crimes -- in connection to the April...
Here's how Columbia University needs to draw the line between activism and discrimination
June 7, 2024 | 5:18pmThis week, Columbia University settled a lawsuit filed by a Jewish student who claimed the school failed to protect them. Now it's time for the school to educate students on...
Fearful Columbia students who felt 'intimidated' by anti-Israel protests to get 'safety escorts' as part of lawsuit settlement
June 4, 2024 | 7:39pmThe measure resolves a proposed class action filed anonymously by a female Jewish student.
Columbia University alumnus snubs alma mater, donates $260M to Israeli university
June 3, 2024 | 4:54pm"It's a smack in the face of Columbia. It's just the beginning," Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime political consultant and pro-Israel activist, told The Post.
The new campus protest trend? Pop-up summer camp, as anti-Israel group vows, 'We will be back'
June 3, 2024 | 4:21pmPro-Palestine protesters erected another encampment on Columbia's campus and disrupted Alumni Weekend. Now they're vowing to continue a "summer of disruption."
Columbia students set up new anti-Israel encampment on campus during alumni weekend
May 31, 2024 | 8:51pmThe defiant demonstrators -- members of Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine -- set up camp on the Manhattan campus' south lawns alongside a giant white party tent already in...
Thank god, this long and painful commencement season is finally over
May 31, 2024 | 7:12pmWe've made it. We really did it. We have finally reached the last stretch of commencement season — which came after an unusually long encampment season.
Small group of elites are letting small group of college idiots drive policy
May 29, 2024 | 7:11pmThe importance given to the recent anti-Israel student protests at Columbia University, on close inspection, turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
Columbia’s devotion to DEI, Gaza pier doomed from start and other commentary
May 29, 2024 | 6:06pm“Columbia is using an ‘evaluation tool’ . . . that mandates hiring committees assign more weight to DEI than teaching, and to give DEI equal weight to research,” fumes John...
No ‘there’ there in Trump case, Jewish students stand up and other commentary
May 28, 2024 | 5:19pm“There’s just not much to the Manhattan prosecution. The penalties sought are way out of line with the offenses alleged,” and it was “brought by a prosecutor, Bragg, who campaigned...
Ideological growth of a poison Ivy: Columbia's journey from scholarship to activism
May 27, 2024 | 8:10pmThe images of the recent protests at Columbia University have grabbed the attention of the American public: students chanting for a Palestinian state.
English teacher at posh $61K-per-year NYC school resigns after sex abuse claims by her former student
May 26, 2024 | 7:20amA high school English teacher at the prestigious Dalton school on the Upper East Side resigned after being accused of sexually abusing a former student, The Post has learned.