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Columbia University On Thursday, they announced that some students who occupied a campus building last spring during anti -Israel protests threaten a number of punishments, including expulsion and stop.
The announcement occurred when the ivy league institution was in dispute over the student’s arrest and cancellation of more than $ 400 million in federal grants Trump administration Due to his “inaction before the persistent harassment of Jewish students.”
Punishments, which include “long-term suspension, temporality withdrawal and expulsion related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring,” were issued by the Colombian University court.
Student participants of the rally lie in the camp near the entrance to Hamilton Hol on the University Haradok of Colombian University on April 30, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, pool)
“As for other events that took place last spring, UJB decisions have recognized previously imposed disciplinary penalties,” the school said. “Return of suspended students will oversee the Colombian university service.”
The punishments come into force after the appeal period, the administrator of the school said on Thursday.
Colombia was subjected to intense lifting Anti -Semitism on campus After Hamas’s attack against Israel on October 7, 2023.
In February, the Committee on Education and the Labor of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the intermediate President of Colombia Katrina Armstrong and the chairman of the Soviets, which listed the anti -Semitic incidents, which stated what happened in the campus since the fall of 2024 semester.
Student participants of the rally march around their camp on the Colombian campus on April 29, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
The list includes a hobby of Hamilton -Hall, the persecution of Jewish students and a violation of Israeli history.
In August 2024, three Columbia University deans resigned the exchange of texts, which “anxiously affected ancient anti -Semitic trails”.
Susan Chang-kim, Vice-Decan and Chief Administrative Director; Matthew Patashnik, Deputy Dean for Supporting Students and Family; And Kristen Croc, the dean of Students’ students, everything went down.
Members of the anti-Israel Mafia invaded Hamilton Hall at the Colombian University on April 30, 2024. On Thursday, the school announced that some students who participated in the occupation of the building would be punished. (Alex Kent/Getti Image)
In the same month, the President of the Colombian University Minis Shafik left the post after several months of criticism, taking into account her appeals with protests on campus, many of which turned into contractions between anti -Israelis demonstrators and police, as well as anti -Semitism in the campus.
Armstrong issued a letter on Friday in response to the Trump administration, which reduced federal grants at school.
Anti -Israeli agitators organized camps on the campus of Colombian University. (Getti Image)
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“When I accepted the role of a temporary president in August 2024, I knew that Colombia needed to be dropped from the previous year and chaos of camps and protests on our campus,” Armstrong wrote. “The university also needed to recognize the damage to our Jewish students who were aimed, persecution and made you feel dangerous or unwanted in our campus last spring.”
