The article criticizes Columbia University's administration for its response to recent events involving Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestine protest leader arrested by ICE. Following the Trump administration's freeze of $400 million funding, the university's interim president, Katrina Armstrong, issued a vague statement addressing campus antisemitism while failing to mention Khalil's situation. This has sparked dissatisfaction among students and faculty, who feel the administration's response lacks courage and clarity. Demonstrations against the university's complacency reflect a growing unrest and a call for stronger advocacy in defending marginalized voices on campus.
This two-pronged assault-first the funding freeze and then Khalil's abduction-seems to have left Columbia's administration petrified and speechless.
An email to faculty by its interim president, Katrina Armstrong, vowed to work with the federal government to deal with antisemitism on campus.
Students may have been expecting something more from their president than a rote assurance that she feels their pain.
The administration is choosing complicity over courage in the case of Mahmoud Khalil.
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