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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

“Columbia's capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry+learning into a shadow of its former self AN ANTI UNIVERSITY a place of fear+loathing, where faculty+students are told from on high what they can say+teach, under severe penalty” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

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As scholars of genocide, we demand an end to Israel’s atrocities | Open letter

Within weeks, 400 colleagues joined our organization. We say: it is not too late to save lives. End the genocide now

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Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

On Monday 17 March, I will go on strike. Not just to protest these unprecedented budget cuts that will severely damage academic education and teaching, but also because they are clearly motivated by a growing resentment and distrust of academic institutions and the academic freedom they uphold.

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