Two Barnard College students were expelled for allegedly disrupting and protesting a
Columbia University Israel history class, Columbia University Apartheid Divest said.
The alleged expulsions for the January 21 incident, according to
anti-Israel student activist group CUAD, would represent the first official expulsions of Columbia affiliate students for pro-Palestinian campus protests. In response, CUAD said on X/Twitter, it would organize a week of activism from Monday until Thursday.
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“When uninvited visitors enter classrooms with the intention of interfering with learning – let alone when they target specific courses, communities, or individuals – they betray the very principles of intellectual exchange that underpin our community,” said Barnard College President Laura Ann Rosenbury.