TO BE CLEAR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS CALLED THE COPS ONTO ITS OWN STUDENTS FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS, ON THE 56TH ANNIVERSARY OF WHEN THEY LAST CALLED THE POLICE ONTO CAMPUS TO ARREST OVER 700 PROTESTING THE VIETNAM WAR & HARLEM GENTRIFICATION ON APRIL 30TH, 1968
Two Columbia University students, both IOF soldiers, sprayed a chemical weapon on peaceful protesters. Skunk spray is used on Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation. It is known to cause nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting.
@Columbia
must take action.
BREAKING: 40+ student organizations at Columbia University announce that they are forming a coalition to make Columbia University to divest from Israeli apartheid after the university unjustly suspends SJP and JVP🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
it's important to still take in Palestinian joy & art. we have to share the grisly images/statistics bc the mainstream media suppresses it, but the constant carnage reinforces a dehumanizing trauma porn & savior complex narrative. reminder: Palestinian existence IS resistance.
BREAKING:
LEAKED audio of Columbia University vice president Gerry Rosberg unable to respond when asked if Palestinians are human.
He stated that this question was “intimidating”.
Acknowledging that Palestinians are human is “intimidating rhetoric” to Columbia admin.
It is unbelievable that students had to conduct their own investigation to identify the soldiers who chemically attacked them on campus & Columbia University is still silent about this hate crime. Is still not offering specific guidance or support. No surprise—They enabled this.
Stink bombs were thrown on columbia university students supporting palestine at today’s rally by z*onists. It is unclear if they are affiliated with Columbia. We are working to identify them, please DM me or
@ColumbiaSJP
if you have info.
This Columbia professor been inciting violence against students of color for weeks without a single word from the university. He has said our groups are pro-terror, must be eradicated, supported the doxxing of students, and repeatedly spread false information on SJP and JVP.
“Is a student organization celebrating a lynching of an African American male free speech? I'm not asking for restrictions of free speech. I'm asking for equal treatment,” says Columbia Business School professor Shai Davidai, who grew up in Israel.
BREAKING ‼️
As of 4 AM this morning, Columbia University students have occupied the center of campus, launching our Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
We demand divestment and an end to Columbia’s complicity in genocide.
Students at
@Columbia
University have suffered potential damage to the lining of their eyes & are going to Urgent Care after Israeli soldier students sprayed them on campus with a chemical weapon. The NYPD was there only to monitor and racialize the protestors. Shame on Columbia.
Every single college campus dealing with this kind of state violence NEEDS to post about it publicly and document it. It doesn’t matter if you have 2 followers or 20k followers on your SJP socials, just post it and we will do our best to boost it. This is unreal.
8 students have been hospitalized so far after a hate crime against pro-Palestinian and Palestinian students on campus two days ago. Still no word from
@Columbia
University.
NEW: I spoke with Columbia students who were chemically attacked on campus.
They've gone to the hospital. Their eyes burn, heads ache, chests hurt. They say administrators haven't reached out to them.
Students allege the perpetrators are tied to the IDF.
for students who want to build encampments, please don’t make your encampments about solidarity with Columbia.
this is about solidarity with Gaza & Palestinian Liberation over anything else. Use us as an example to escalate but we should not be the focus, it’s about Palestine.
Ten students have been hospitalized. Dozens are dealing with medical issues. The perpetrators are still on campus and have swipe card access despite
@Columbia
claiming they are banned. What will it take for
@Columbia
to protect their students?
Two Columbia University students, both IOF soldiers, sprayed a chemical weapon on peaceful protesters. Skunk spray is used on Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation. It is known to cause nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting.
@Columbia
must take action.
PRESS RELEASE:
Columbia University Threatens Students with the National Guard After Refusing to Bargain in Good Faith.
We refuse to concede to cowardly threats and blatant intimidation by university administration. We will continue to peacefully protest.
#cu4palestine
PRESS RELEASE: Last night, Columbia University suspended six students, including a Palestinian student & two jewish students with NO due process as part of an investigation into a campus event about Palestine. These students were evicted & given 24 hours to leave their homes.
BREAKING: BDS VICTORY at Columbia University!! ❤️🔥
Columbia College Student Council has voted to boycott all companies supporting Israeli Apartheid and Genocide.
This boycott impacts over $1 million in student fees.
An SJP organizer, Maryam Alwan, smiling in the face of arrest. When you know you are on the right side of history, there is nothing to be afraid of.
@Columbia
University students refuse to back down!
LEAKED AUDIO:
Columbia University professor Shai Davidai repeatedly berates & harasses a student talking about how they were raped by the israeli military & evicted by Columbia admin.
This professor has been reported hundreds of times & harassed dozens of students.
Dozens of students have given us testimonies of their clothes & hair having the foul smell left even after the initial burst of smells at the protest. The smell only worsens & spreads after being washed. Some students are experiencing nausea & burning eyes, even hours later.
BREAKING: Columbia University wifi and services are being surveilled to provide evidence for a house committee investigation. Students were not warned about this privacy violation.
Do not open any emails/messages you don’t recognize, use a VPN, & download signal.
why do teenage students have to be the bigger person and stay silent when there is a grown man Professor who has made it his life’s mission to harass and call us terrorists and incite violence against us without accountability like I’m actually sick of it
due to hazardous chemical exposure from skunk, one of our columbia university SJP members had to be taken away in an ambulance.
she is experiencing severe nausea, lightheadedness, tightness of the chest, & abnormal heart rate. please pray for her health & a speedy recovery. ❤️
Update: this has now reached 66+ student organizations. The article isn’t updated yet; the coalition is working on a website for the full list! Stay tuned!
BREAKING: 40+ student organizations at Columbia University announce that they are forming a coalition to make Columbia University to divest from Israeli apartheid after the university unjustly suspends SJP and JVP🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
ACTION ALERT:
Sign our petition to tell Columbia University to fire Professor Shai Davidai for his appalling conduct towards students. Columbia administration has treated Shai with impunity, allowing him to bully students freely.
#FireShai
POWER TO THE PEOPLE ❤️🔥 Join us outside our encampment all night long. Bring a friend, blankets, and snacks!! Follow our telegram for updates:
#cu4palestine
Columbia University continues to capitalize on the legacy of Edward Said while siding with the same forces who firebombed his office during his time as a professor. If only he were here to see how far the student body has come: 80+ student organizations standing for Palestine.
SAY IT LOUD, SAY IT CLEAR, LIBERATION IS ALMOST HERE!! ❤️🔥
We stand with all Columbia University students in the encampment and with Palestine!!
#cu4palestine
LEAKED EMAIL EXCHANGE:
Columbia University Professor asks CSSW student to remove Palestine Flag from their zoom name online because it has “caused trauma reactions”.
“Geopolitical emojis” is referring to the Palestinian flag.
and
@BarnardCollege
is the one evicting students & giving them 15 min to retrieve belongings from their own dorms. Dean Grinage and Laura Rosenbury are downright villainous for leaving young women with no housing the same night many of them got out of jail.
As we shame Minouche Shafik let’s not forget these two monsters of
@BarnardCollege
who are targeting student organizers and making teenagers homeless. They’re trying to hide behind Shafik’s shame, but they are just as evil
Barnard deserves just as much shame!
#cu4palestine
Columbia University is where Edward Said taught, a legendary Palestinian Christian academic. Said faced so much harassment that he had bulletproof glass in his office.
To have top level administration say this about Palestinians (w/ Palestinian students in the room) is appalling
PRESS RELEASE:
Columbia University Concedes to Student Demands Issuing Written Assurances of Safety from State Violence. We fear that Columbia is risking a second Jackson State or Kent State massacre.
for press inquiries, email: cuadpress
@gmail
.com
#cu4palestine
Members of NYPD’s “anti terrorism unit” followed
@Columbia
students on the subway attending a peaceful protest. They got on at the 116th stop. More cops got on at each stop & stared at students wearing keffiyehs. When students transferred stations, the cops followed.
Students of color were terrified, many afraid to leave campus today. Many reports of physical aggression and keffiyehs being pulled off. Columbia had NYPD arrest 100+ of their own students for peaceful protesting but can’t handle this? Interesting.
zionist counterprotestors literally climbing columbia’s gates (that they claim to close for student safety) were overheard thanking cops & the cops replying you’re welcome. many members of proud boys outside today & actual christian nationalists & neo nazis.
BREAKING NEWS: Columbia University Admin issuing a NEW WAVE OF SUSPENSIONS for anyone that tries to pick up their confiscated belongings from morningside and 115th.
Student councils have issued a workaround: please read for more info!!!
#cu4palestine
LEAKED EMAIL EXCHANGE:
Columbia University administrator sends a disciplinary notice to a Palestinian student for saying their family was bombed in Gaza.
TAKE ACTION ‼️
Email Ann Thorton & Melissa Begg for this disturbing, discriminatory behavior.
BREAKING: LEAKED PLAN from Columbia University administration for the congressional hearing tmrw. President Minouche Shafik will be testifying.
Columbia admin touts the suspension of students & brags about having NYPD on campus.
UPDATE: Excited to announce we have officially hit 80 student organizations in our coalition in just one week! Columbia students, please mobilize your organizations to join our coalition! We are showing Columbia that the students refuse to be complicit in apartheid and genocide.
BREAKING: 40+ student organizations at Columbia University announce that they are forming a coalition to make Columbia University to divest from Israeli apartheid after the university unjustly suspends SJP and JVP🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
The fact that South Africa’s ICJ proceedings against Israel for the crime of genocide cite that “it is important to place the acts of genocide in the broader context of Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians during its 75-year-long apartheid” is groundbreaking. (1/)
BREAKING: NYPD ARE ARRESTING COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS FOR TREPASSING!! Students are being arrested for building tents for our Gaza solidarity enclosure on Butler lawns. COME OUT ASAP!!
#cu4palestine
our community guidelines for the Gaza Solidarity Encampment!! ❤️🔥 please read before participating or engaging with our encampment. we keep us safe.
#cu4palestine
Columbia SJP & JVP started with the undergrads. The movement has now spread to every single undergraduate & graduate school of Columbia. We hope this is a sign to repressive schools & threatening forces across the country that the more you target students, the louder they’ll get.
Even after we are attacked on campus by Israeli soldiers with a chemical-based weapon, a faculty member continues to incite violence against us. Such emboldenment of anti-Palestinian hatred is precisely what led up to & facilitated Friday’s attack in the first place…
We refuse to accept the mass slaughter of Palestinians as normal or acceptable. As elected officials and media outlets weaponize the concept of “campus safety”, remember that there are no universities left in Gaza.
All eyes on Palestine.
#cu4palestine
PRESS RELEASE: “Columbia wants you to believe we are enemies to protect their genocidal investments, but there is no deeper solidarity”.
- 50+ Barnard & 30+ Columbia University students are suspended
- Barnard students lost dining & housing
#cu4palestine
The university and all external hostile actors should realize that the more they try to threaten and clamp down on Palestinian voices, the louder they will become.
“There have been a lot of death threats. There have been professors at the school who have been calling us terrorists,” says student Maryam Alwan, one of the leaders of Students for Justice in Palestine at Columbia University.
‼️ACTION ALERT ‼️
NYPD has threatened ARREST for Columbia University students who participate in our Gaza Solidarity Encampment. We need everyone on campus ASAP at Butler lawns!!
BRING YOUR FRIENDS!!
BREAKING: Palestinians & allied students filed a civil rights complaint today against Columbia University.
This complaint addresses NYPD arrests of 100+ students peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza & six months of discriminatory treatment.
When students were attacked with chemical weapons by ex israeli military, resulting in the hospitalization of 15 students, Columbia University couldn’t bother to investigate.
@SSIcolumbia
brought a speaker who said cows were more valuable than Muslims & faced no consequences.
PRESS RELEASE:
We are frustrated by media distractions focusing on inflammatory individuals who do not represent us.
We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry and stand against non students attempting to disrupt our solidarity.
#cu4palestine
Media outlets are too busy writing lazy, inaccurate smear campaigns about our organizers rather than reporting on the mass graves being uncovered in Gaza or the fact that there is not a single university left in Gaza. Disgraceful “journalism”.
BREAKING: Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine is suing Columbia University with
@NYCLU
and
@pal_legal
. Columbia unlawfully targeted students and engaged in retaliation against us &
@JVPColumbia
. All students have the right to peacefully protest.
Here is a place where students attempting to speak about Palestine are shut down through various loopholes, with their events subject to asymmetrical processing times, cancellations, and “security” standards. Here is a place where free speech is suppressed.
"Here is a place where students can discover the many complex sides to every issue," says Columbia President Minouche Shafik. Earlier this week, she discussed the University's role in navigating complex world issues.
We would like to remind you that we are a student organization, some of us as young as 18. This is a grown professor who has repeatedly incited violence against students at Columbia University and has accused us of supporting terrorism and tagged the NYPD on posts about us.
Columbia sent threatening emails to 100+ student groups as part of this “investigation”. Columbia is endangering students to boost their public image before President Shafik’s testimony at the April 17th Congressional hearing.
If you are dealing w/ symptoms from chemical exposure (abdominal pain, eye irritation, fatigue, headaches, nausea, stomach upset), we strongly recommend going to campus health or urgent care as soon as possible.
Keep a log of your symptoms w/ dates & times.
Two Columbia University students, both IOF soldiers, sprayed a chemical weapon on peaceful protesters. Skunk spray is used on Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation. It is known to cause nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting.
@Columbia
must take action.
In 1968,
@Columbia
University arrested students protesting against the Vietnam War en masse. In 2024, Columbia has just arrested 108 students calling for an end to the funding of Israeli apartheid and the genocide in Gaza. Has our institution learned nothing from its past?
seriously so nauseating.
@AOC
we do not want your solidarity if you cannot stand in solidarity with Gaza. I am so sick of these two faced unprincipled spineless politicians profiting off the deaths of our people while claiming to care for us. just stop.
‼️URGENT ACTION ALERT ‼️
Columbia University administrator overheard planning to turn on the sprinklers to force students off the lawns we are occupying.
We need students and faculty to show up ASAP!!
#cu4palestine
🚨🚨‼️‼️ACTION ALERT!! COMMUNITY SUPPORT NEEDED!! ‼️‼️🚨🚨
Columbia University wrongfully suspends Pro-Palestine students while cutting off access to food, housing, and healthcare!!
Email admin TODAY & share with friends!
‼️ACTION ALERT ‼️
- 6 hours after the Gaza Solidarity Camp was established, Columbia University admin has mobilized NYPD against students & barricaded entrances.
- We are asking students & faculty to attend today’s teach in!
- Bring your friends! ❤️🔥
#cu4palestine
We are an organization made up of young students of color who are asking for Palestinians to stop being bombed, and for this we are being constantly targeted by an adult white male professor with no sense of how to conduct himself. How is this remotely acceptable?
@Columbia
?
Divestment is not abstract. Columbia is forcing us to feel it is abstract by refusing to disclose their financial investments which are likely considerably worse than the listed companies in this post. We demand that Columbia disclose and divest NOW. (1/)
URGENT: Multiple Columbia University students were among those arrested at today’s protest. Students were arrested for “infractions” such as jaywalking. Bail and Jail support is needed at 1 Police Plaza. Please share with your networks.
PRESS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHT:
Arrested and suspended Jewish students at Columbia University reaffirm their commitment to Palestinian Liberation.
Solidarity with
@JVPColumbia
🕊️
#cu4palestine
‼️URGENT ACTION ALERT ‼️
NYPD is on campus NOW at Columbia University!!! SHOW UP ASAP @ butler lawns to our Gaza Solidarity Equipment!! Bring your friends too!!
#cu4palestine
Students involved served in the IOF. Skunk is military grade, this is not accessible to the general public. It is a mixture of yeast, baking soda & amino acids that smells like raw sewage. Best way to get rid of the smell is a special soap sold to law enforcement.
‼️‼️BREAKING: SciencesPo Paris, the top university in France which hosts a dual degree program with Columbia, has just launched a Gaza Solidarity Encampment. This officially marks the spread of the protests to Europe. So incredibly proud of my peers🔥🇵🇸💪
Columbia University has blood on its hands. Our tuition dollars fund a $12 billion dollar endowment that is invested in weapons manufacturers, military contractors, and more. We are calling on
@Columbia
to divest from the occupation.
‼️EMERGENCY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY RALLY FOR RAFAH ‼️
- Palestinians are trapped in Rafah under constant bombardment.
- Today at the sundial at 4 PM!
- Masks are REQUIRED, we recommend wearing a KN95, KF94, or N95 mask.
- Dress warm & bring hand warmers!!
The fact that commenters insist on playing down the damage that columbia students have experienced: medical issues, permanently ruined clothes, etc is appalling. No student should have to deal with this.
GW SJP also announced a coalition following their suspension. We urge campus SJPs & JVPs across the country to start building coalitions now—not just statements for student orgs to sign, but real coalitions with structure (1/)
Columbia is trying to shove this under the rug. They have offered no financial assistance to impacted students who are dealing with medical bills & having to throw out personal belongings.
Please contact your elected officials about this & continue spreading the word.
horrifying scenes of police brutality from Friday’s peaceful protest (2/2/24). NYPD’s strategic response group was very aggressive. They prevented students from giving speeches, punched women, & tackled people to the ground.
No words can describe the heartbreak and horror. Hisham, Kinnan, and Tahseen, we stand with you and with all Palestinians, whether they are on our campuses or in Palestine. We will not be intimidated.
We are so excited to announce that our divestment referendum has passed with majority student support at Columbia College! Thank you for your support and for voting, we couldn’t have done it without you! Full statement coming soon.
Hear from organizers
@israhirsi
and
@maryamalwan
on the repression of Columbia University and Barnard College and the beauty of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Thank you
@AymanM
!
The Columbia University administration must understand, once and for all, that the more they (now *physically* !) harm their own students and crack down, the more the community will rise up against them. This school feels like an authoritarian state.
BREAKING: Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD)’s referendum PASSED at Barnard College. Students will be able to make their voices heard by voting on divestment from the Israeli occupation. liberation is inevitable ❤️🔥
Please read this as many times as you need to. We don’t need rallies at other institutions saying “We stand with Columbia”. We need you to escalate for the sake of Gaza and take inspiration and tactics from Columbia as needed! Please focus on Gaza!!!
BREAKING:
LEAKED audio of Barnard College President Laura Rosenbury justifying her decision to leave out the Palestinian death toll in a student body email.
Rosenbury did this after Palestinian students at Columbia University lost family members.
For my organizing w/ SJP, I have been doxxed, chemically attacked by IOF soldiers, smeared online, followed by the nypd anti-terrorism unit, gotten brutalized by cops, been suspended, evicted, arrested. I am not exaggerating when I say there is nothing they can do to silence us.
MUST-READ THREAD‼️‼️‼️
Wondering why you should sign this petition to
#FireShai
in support of the Columbia community? Please read this thread, sign, and share. This is only a drop in the bucket of what we have been enduring:
These same counterprotestors have consistently danced, disrupted, and chanted racist things into megaphones at our protests. They laughed and jeered when a student gave a speech about her killed family. Meanwhile, SJP and JVP were suspended for calling for a ceasefire.
Counter with Israel flags playing Twisted Sister’s ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It,’ traditionally understood as a rebellious anthem (befitting for the UAW rally, not counter), recently co-opted by far-right antivaxxers.
The counter has a gleefully entitled energy, dancing & laughing?
The ADL president is comparing a keffiyeh, a garment illustrating the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people, to a swastika.
Bigoted, disgusting behavior towards Palestinian students, many of whom have lost family in Gaza.
It’s time to
#DroptheADL
ADL leader compares a keffiyeh to a swastika. I'm not surprised. But what saddens me is that 6 people sat there and didn't say a word. 0 pushback. Recently Scott Jennings, the most fragile man on CNN, referred to Ilham Omar as Hamas PR and similarly not a single word of pushback.
@Columbia
is the same school where students were sprayed with chemical weapons on campus. 15 students were hospitalized and dozens were injured. Arab, muslim, palestinian, and jewish students were impacted. Where is the response from administration?
and the worst part is that he somehow manages to start literally crying on TV and playing the victim after yelling about how we and Jewish Voice for Peace are the “KKK” and “need to be eradicated” and we’ve just ignored all along but hello?????
@Columbia