{"id":9725,"date":"2025-03-14T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2025-03-14T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:35:07","slug":"columbia-university-punishes-pro-palestinian-protesters-who-occupied-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/columbia-university-punishes-pro-palestinian-protesters-who-occupied-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia University punishes pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University said on Thursday it had doled out a range of punishments to students who occupied a campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests,&nbsp;<em>Reuters<\/em>&nbsp;reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Columbia University\u2019s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, has called the administration\u2019s concerns legitimate and said her institution was working with the government to address them. Campus protests and pro-Israel counter-protests have drawn allegations of antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university said in a statement on Thursday that its \u201cjudicial board determined findings and issued sanctions to students ranging from multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university, citing legal privacy restrictions, did not release the names of students who were disciplined, nor did it say how many students faced punishments, which the students can appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The union representing Columbia student workers, UAW Local 2710, said in a written statement that its president, Grant Miner, was among the students expelled, just one day before contract negotiations with the university were set to begin, a move the union called \u201cthe latest assault on First Amendment rights \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A university spokesperson said they had no comment on the union statement. Columbia was the epicenter of anti-Israel protests that hit several U.S. college campuses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University said on Thursday it had doled out a range of punishments to students who occupied a campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests,&nbsp;Reuters&nbsp;reports. Columbia University\u2019s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, has called the administration\u2019s concerns legitimate and said her institution was working with the government to address them. Campus protests and pro-Israel counter-protests have [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}