The Columbia University announced on Thursday that it had come up with a number of punishments for students who had occupied a campus building during Propalestinian protests last spring.
The announcement was given a week after the government of US President Donald Trump announced that it had canceled 400 million US dollars in federal granting and contracts in response to the bad reaction of the Ivy League School to anti -Semitism on campus.
The Interim President of Columbia, Katrina Armstrong, has legitimate the concerns of the government and said the university was working with the government to address it. Protests and pro-Israeli counter-protests on the New York campus have made allegations of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and racism.
On Thursday, the university announced in an explanation that its judicial authority “sanctions against students, that of several years of suspensions, temporary final returns and shifts, range from the school of the school in the school last spring.
The judicial authority consists of students, faculties and employees selected by the university’s Senate.
The university, citing statutory data protection restrictions, neither published the names of disciplined students nor how many students were confronted with punishments that the students can recruit.
The union, which represents the student workers of Columbia, Uaw Local 2710, said in a statement that his President Grant Miner was one of the proven students just one day before the contract negotiations with the university, a move by the union called “The recent attack on the rights of first change”.
A spokesman for the university had no comment on the Union declaration.
Columbia was the epicenter of anti-Israel protests that met several US college campus.
The demonstrations began after the Hamas attack on Israel began in October 2023 and the subsequent US Israeli attack on Gaza Strip and then supported US attacks on Gaza. The demonstrators demanded that the foundations of the university sell by Israeli interests and that US military support in Israel, among other things, ends.
The Trump government swore a serious approach to what it calls Pro-Hamas demonstrators.
At the weekend, federal immigration agents arrested the Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the protests of last year’s campus, who wants to deport the Trump government. The government said that his detention was the first of many to carry out it. The deportation of Khalil was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.
