From Jewish Students: Protecting the Free Speech of our Peers

As concerned Jewish students at Columbia and Barnard, our points of view are wildly diverse. Some of us identify as zionist, anti-zionist or somewhere in between. Some of us proudly support every demand put forth by JVP and SJP while others openly disagree. Where our vast array of perspectives coincide is in the knowledge that Columbia University’s and Barnard College’s vilification and censorship of some beliefs - but not others - not only threatens the safety of the students holding these beliefs but the sanctity of university life as a whole. That is why we are writing this letter to unequivocally condemn the censorship of pro-Palestine speech, which has now escalated into the suspension of SJP and JVP.

We applaud the bravery of JVP, SJP and others who continue to express their views even in the face of unprecedented censorship attempts, both by the university itself and by fear-mongering watch dogs such as the company behind the doxxing trucks, Accuracy in Media. Furthermore, we recognize that for people in both organizations — Jewish and Arab alike — this is a time of unbearable grief, and having empathy for one another should be at the forefront of our community’s consciousness. The university administration should be the leading example of this collective empathy in a time of unfathomable personal catastrophe, but instead they’ve chosen to feed into and exacerbate our division.

In the administration’s attempts to paint Jewish voices as a monolith, they have contributed to the pinning of Jewish life and liberty as inherently at odds with Palestinian liberation. It is this division that not only fuels the escalation of “charged tensions” on campus, but also weakens the primary goal of Columbia as a university: to facilitate global change through open, and at times controversial, dialogues and inquiry about our world’s most pressing issues. To completely censor the two most prominent student organizations representing the Palestinian perspective, one of whom is explicitly Jewish in nature, is to stunt all Israel/Palestine discourse through intimidation and violation of our academic freedom.

We as Jewish community members explicitly condemn the silencing of pro-Palestinian student voices because we feel this action has been unjustly taken in our names. We ask the administration: how can you claim the censorship of non-violent protests is out of concern for our safety while also being silent when neo-Nazis have infiltrated campus, yelling things like “F*ck the Jews” and comparing Judaism to White Supremacy? Why has the Anti-Doxxing Working Group – created in response to the trucks that are openly targeting Arab, Muslim, and BIPOC students, threatening their academic and career futures as well as their most basic bodily safety – still not responded to the more than 30 complaints it has received? Why has an antisemitism task force been created from the top-down with no student input and no equivalence for our peers facing Islamophobia and Anti-Arab hate? And why has the task of covering the names of our peers on these trucks been taken on by student group chats, largely made up of Jewish students who feel we must put ourselves in harm's way to proclaim that this is not what we represent? With these actions and inactions, you are not supporting your Jewish community against antisemitism – you are scapegoating us in an attempt to censor dissent. In the process, you are also fueling the rise in Islamophobia and hate that is actively endangering our peers.

It is also worth noting that the bedrock of JVP and SJP’s alliance has been the founding of Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Regardless of where we as individual Jewish students may stand on divestment, it is troubling to see our university conflate the criticism they’re facing with the recent upsurge of antisemitism many of us are experiencing. When you allude to recent and historical threats to the Jewish community to justify the silencing of students critical of your university – a large faction of whom are Jewish themselves – you are effectively cowering behind our grief and weaponizing our trauma. In doing so, this administration has shown that their priority is not truly protecting the Jewish community, but rather stifling pro-Palestine voices critical of the institution itself.

Freedom of speech serves to protect every individual regardless of which way the pendulum of institutional power swings, and to threaten that on college campuses is to threaten the most basic of our rights. That is why we as Jewish students at Columbia/Barnard denounce this attempt to capitalize on fear and campus polarization. Instead, we call on all our fellow students to stand up for the freedoms of pro-Palestine student activists regardless of how you situate yourself in this crisis – starting with the signing of this letter. We also ask the Columbia Administration to immediately end the suspension of these student groups, and to ensure that any working definitions of antisemitism make space for and protect legitimate criticism of Israel and Zionism. No group’s safety can come at the expense of another’s and a threat to any group’s expression is a threat to us all.

Signatures:

Nitsets: Barnard/Columbia Yiddish Student Journal

Naomi Walthour

Barnard ‘24

Nina Kapstein

Barnard ‘25

Makayla Gubbay

School of General Studies ‘25

Gabriela Buntman Orozco – JStreet

School of General Studies ‘25

Is Perlman

Columbia College ‘25

Mira Kux

General Studies ‘25

Jacob Kimbarow

General Studies ‘25

Chloe H.

General Studies ‘24

Judy Goldstein

Barnard and Jewish Theological Seminary '25

Kendall P.

Barnard College '24

Leila O’Rourke

School of General Studies ‘24

Isabel (Izzy) Lapidus

Barnard College ‘24

“As a Jewish student on campus, I am deeply disappointed by the University’s attempts to selectively censure free speech on campus. This is not what any of us believe in and we demand an immediate apology and reinstatement of JVP and SJP.”

Ruth W.

Barnard College ‘25

Sally K.

Barnard College ‘26

Rebecca C. – Housing Equity Project

Columbia College ‘2

Manjistha Lakhotia

BC 24

“We should be able to protest the over 10K people who have died. if we don’t, then we would be dishonoring not only the Palestinians, but also the hundreds of thousands of people who have died across the global south for US interests.”

Dore Fish-Bieler

Columbia General Studies ‘25

Laura Julia F.

Barnard College '26

Hannah C.

Barnard College ‘27

Jesse L.

Barnard College '25

A. B.

Columbia General Studies ‘24

Simon Feisthauer Fournet

Graduate School of Journalism '24

Maya L.

Columbia College ‘27

Sophia R.

Barnard College '26

Tanvi K.

Barnard College ‘25

Luka P.

Columbia College ‘24

Elisheva Malomet

JTS/GS ‘24

Amanda C

Barnard '25

Sarah Borus

Barnard College ‘25

Micah G.

Barnard College ‘27

Margaret A.

Columbia College ‘27

Aliza Abusch-Magder – Beit Ephraim

Columbia College ‘24

Anne S. – Housing Equity Project

Barnard ‘25

Suki G.

Columbia College ‘25

Anne O.

Barnard College ‘27

Suki G.

Columbia College ‘25

Anne O.

Barnard College ‘27

Sylvie Bergquist – Housing Equity Project

Barnard College ‘26

Tali B-C. – Housing Equity Project

Barnard College ‘25

“As a Jewish student who is grieving and scared, and who also supports the right of her Palestinian peers to voice their grief and their fear, I feel completely discarded by my school community.”

Ainhoa Petri-Hidalgo

School of General Studies ‘24

Lea S.

Barnard ‘26

Pramit Ghatak – Club Bangla

Columbia College ‘27

“Protect the freedom of speech for students of color on this campus. Are we really going to be suppressing Palestinian and Jewish voices during this time of crisis?”

Victoria Fernandez

Teachers College ‘24

Ben Boven

General Studies ‘25

Smita B.

Teachers College '24

Eres D.

SEAS ‘27

Suma C.

Teachers College ‘25

Miranda Y.

Barnard ‘27

Ana H. — Reproductive Justice Collective

Barnard ‘25

Ani H.

Columbia College ‘25

Kristina D.

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences '27

George W.

Columbia College '27

J. K.

Teachers College ‘25

Abigail Rabbitt

Barnard college ‘27

Victoria Dadet

Graduate School of Arts & Sciences ‘24

Gabby L. – YDSA

CC ‘26

“I find the suspension of these groups to be a direct attack on the academic freedom and political organizing that Columbia claims to foster in its student body. These protests were peaceful, and that the University, while neutral on its face, is being weaponized in application in deeply insidious ways. I hope the University will reflect on its actions and to be on the right side of history as an administration, rather than just taking credit for your students’ activism when it’s politically and economically convenient.”

Lexy P.

SEAS ‘25

Raquel C. – Students for Justice in Palestine

SEAS ‘26

Sophie J.

Barnard College ‘27

Anya C.

Barnard College ‘27

Amna S.

Teachers College ‘25

Zayd A .

General Studies ‘25

Benjamin V.

General Studies ‘24

Hayden C.

Barnard College ‘27

Erika Lopez

Columbia Law School '24

Maya G.

Barnard '25

Carolina M.

General Studies '25

Jingying L. – AZINE

Barnard ‘25

Estella M.

Barnard College '27

Emily W.

Barnard College '26

M. A.

Teachers College ‘27

Sreoshi Sarkar

Barnard ‘24

Mohammad Jamal – Columbia Muslim Students Association

Columbia College '24

Jacob G.

GSAS ‘24

Lucy Davis

General Studies ‘24

Chris

Columbia University

Sarah A.

Barnard

Sophia S.

Barnard

Maeve C. – Student-Worker Solidarity

Columbia University

Andrew Timberg – Student-Worker Solidarity

Columbia University

Charlie H.

Columbia University

Roxanne Z.

School of General Studies ‘25

Haven Capone

Barnard ‘25

“If we do not stand for each other’s voices and hearts, we stand for nothing.”

Nour Suleiman

Teachers College, '24

Margaret Cavanaugh

Barnard College ‘25

A. H.

Columbia College ‘25

Louise Rosler

Teachers College ‘25

Leah Goryachkovsky

GS’24

Sarah B.

Columbia Engineering ‘25

Yonel Gonzalez

CC 2025

Abby Jack

Barnard College ‘25

T. R.

Barnard College ‘24

Laura Durante

Barnard College ‘24

H.S.

Barnard College ‘24

D.W.

Barnard College ‘26

Esther Park

Barnard College ‘25

Joyce J

Barnard '24

Serena D.

Barnard College ‘25

Sarah M.

JTS/GS '25

Stephanie Y.

Teachers College, Columbia University ‘25

Molly Stahl

Barnard College ‘24

Sabrina Sakhai

Barnard College ‘25

River Smith

Columbia College ‘25

Melinda Troyka

Teachers College ‘27

Julianna Lozada

General Studies '24

Madeline Abramson

Barnard '24

Jada Li

Barnard College ‘25

I.I.

Barnard College ‘26

Aharon Dardik – J Street U Columbia, Jews for Ceasefire

School of General Studies, '26

Ismael Hammoudi

Teachers College, Columbia International & Comparative Education Department ‘24

Rose C.

Barnard College and the Jewish Theological Seminary class of 2026

Georgia F.

Barnard/JTS ‘26

Anna Yokote

Barnard College ‘23

Nina Prunet-Sharma

Barnard College ‘25

Rachel B.

Barnard/JTS 2026

“Over the past month it has been hard to express many overlapping identities at once. It’s important to allow difficult conversations to happen on campus and the administration has hindered this important part of education. Whether you agree with Zionist clubs, anti-Zionist clubs, or no affiliate groups at all, it’s important that all of these positions are represented.”

Sophie Carman

Barnard College ‘25

“My Jewish identity is at the forefront of all my activism, and I stand wholeheartedly against the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza. I have been so grateful for a space on campus for Jewish activism because as activists for the cause we fight against the notion that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are one in the same. I am disappointed and appalled that president Rosenbury equated anti-Zionism and antisemitism in a public statement, as it conflates being Jewish to being in support of the Israeli government and is a rhetoric the United States weaponizes to claim moral superiority as it sends billions of dollars in military aid to Israel while neglecting the well-being and safety of Jews in America.”

Lilja Hanson

Barnard ‘25

Olivia Mitchell

Barnard College ‘23

Kendall Bartel

Barnard College ‘25

Grace N.

Barnard College ‘24

S. G.

Barnard ‘27

Erin Adams

School of Social Work ‘25

C.S.

GS '25

Juliette Gobin

School of Social Work ‘25

Sophia S.

Barnard ‘27

Morgan Durbin

Columbia School of Social Work '25

Malaika S.

School of Social Work ‘25

Flora Sugarman

School of Social Work ‘25

Nathan R.

School of Social Work ‘25

Alice Bai

Barnard College '26

Sacha Toberoff – Columbia Hillel

Columbia College ‘26

“Banning these organizations does not protect the religious Jewish community, it makes us feel less safe. By limiting free speech of one group you endanger the free speech of all.”

Harris Cooksey

School of Social Work ‘24

Siobhan (Rowan) Meacher

Schools of General Studies '24

“It is harmful to the students of Columbia to undergo racist censorship for speaking out about the injustices of the world powers.”

Querida D.

School of Social Work ‘25

Sophia V.

Teachers College ‘24

Lena Westlund

General studies ‘25

Elias Coerver

Columbia College ‘25

Sophia Sorid

Columbia College '26

Sydney Hertz

Barnard College '25

Isabella V.

Barnard ‘24

Rose B.

School of General Studies, ‘25

“The silencing of student voices on Columbia's campus right now is one of the most egregious offenses an institution claiming free thinking can do. I am so unbelievably disappointed and yet not at all surprised.”

Zachariah Smart

School of Social Work ‘24

Anna S.

Columbia College ‘24

Chloe Allan

Barnard College ‘27

Laura F.

General Studies ‘23

Lauren Subramaniam

Columbia College ‘25

“‘Columbia is home to a vibrant, curious and welcoming community of students and faculty, drawn together from every walk of life and corner of the world to live and learn in a truly global city. We are dreamers, changemakers and risk-takers dedicated to exploring new ideas and embracing a sweeping sense of possibility. It’s where you can ask big-picture questions, have high hopes and form high ideals. It's a chance to imagine—and to be part of—something greater.’ - Columbia University Admissions Website”

Jonathan D.

TC Columbia ‘27

Sophie Anderson

Barnard College ‘25

Sabrina R.

Barnard College ‘26

Rose Leveen

Jewish Theological Seminary and General Studies ‘24

Anika Strite

Barnard College ‘26

Milene Klein

Columbia College ‘24

“Never again and not in our name. We must stand together in solidarity and support.”

Danika Kello

Barnard College ‘27

Gabriella Gregor-Splaver

Columbia GS ‘24

V. L.

Barnard College ‘23

Lyla Guthrie

Barnard College ‘27

A. A

Barnard College ‘25

Mazen Khalil

Columbia College '27

I. T.

Barnard College ‘25

Maya Passman

Barnard College ‘24

Emani Fung

Columbia College ‘25

Katherine Z.

School of General Studies ‘24

Banks C.

Teachers College ‘23

Frances Kassouni

Barnard College ‘27

Althea Cohen

Columbia College ‘25

Emily L.

Barnard College ‘24

Ben R.

Columbia College ‘26

Taylor Michl

Teachers College ‘27

Griffin Fadellin

School of General Studies, ‘25

C. G.

Barnard College ‘25

C.C.

Barnard College ‘25

“Don’t silence your students.”

Mazen Khalil

Columbia College ‘27

Layalee Ramahi

Climate School '24

Isabel Blankfield

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, ‘29

Tamara Rasamny, Climate School ‘24

A. A., BC '26

S. O. General Studies ‘24

Lucia R. Barnard College '24

Joah R, School of Professional Studies ‘24

LS Barnard

“The university’s actions have been so appalling I am considering transferring.”

Gabriela Carramaschi Columbia College ‘25

Sophia D.

Barnard College ‘24

Janelle Matias – Barnard-Columbia Abolition Collective (BCAC)

Barnard College ‘24

Savannah W.

GS ‘24

Bryan Leni

Barnard 2024

Ian Hunt

Climate School '24

“Banning action from JVP and SJP not only hinders your students' rights, but also drives them to demonstrate outside of Columbia in less safe environments.”

Sara Alsalem

School of Arts ’23

Prentice Jones

Barnard College ‘24

Twyla Frid Lotenberg

Barnard College ‘26

Amelia F.

Barnard College '25

Caitlin Huntsman

Barnard College '25

Jessica O Yang

School of Social Work ‘24, Mailman School of Public Health ‘24

Fatima Khan

Columbia College ‘27

Myriam Joseph-Schilz – Housing Equity Project

Barnard College ‘25

Alina Johnson

Barnard College ‘25

C.O.

Barnard College ‘25

M.S.

Barnard College '25

Ayesha Kabir

Teacher’s College ‘25

“I am signing because I am and will always be on the side of the oppressed. I am signing because I am against apartheid and genocide and the war crimes of Israel and I condemn my university for not embodying their values through their continued support of an oppressive, Zionist regime that is killing thousands of men, women, and children. I am signing because my people have experienced genocide and were not supported by the United States in their liberation and this country has long established a historical precedent for not caring when someone who looks like me is killed.”

Shadé Jaiyeola

Faiza Chowdhury

Columbia College ‘25

S.C.

Barnard College '25

Lev Brunner

Columbia College ‘22

M. S. Barnard College ‘25

“There is nothing hateful about requesting a ceasefire; this a fight against hate, a fight for humanity, and silencing our voices will not change that. Jewish safety and Palestinian liberation are not mutually exclusive!!”

Alma A.

CC ‘27

Diwa Bhusal

Barnard College ‘25

F.T.

Barnard College '24

Zayna Syed

Climate School, 2024

Cami Touloukian

Teachers College '25

Palmer P.

Columbia College '27

Zainab J.

School of Social Work, School of Public Health ‘24

Maybelle Keyser-Butson

Barnard College ‘26

Emujin Tsogtjargal

Barnard College, '27

M.Y. – Azine

Barnard '25

Franziska Lee

Columbia College '24

Sadia Sharif – Azine

Columbia College ’23

Solby Lim

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences ‘24

Ben Fu

Columbia College '25

Mason Holliday

Barnard College ‘25

Ashna G.

School of Social Work ‘25

“None of us are free until all of us are free.”

Faith Kim

Barnard College '26

Sofía T.

Barnard College ‘25

“‘Life is a right, not collateral or causal’ - Suheir Hammad”

M.D.

CC ‘25

Samantha Haj

School of Social Work ‘24

W.K.

SEAS ‘23

Nyah Ahmad

Barnard '24

Maimuna Islam – Club Bangla, CUAD

Barnard ‘25

“Barnard, grow a spine and learn how to protect your students when they are showing you how to be brave!!!!!!”

Cameron Jones

Columbia College '26

Pranathi S.

Barnard College ‘24

S. J. X.

Columbia College '24

P.T. – Students for Justice in Palestine

School of Engineering and Applied Science ‘26

Daniel Lam

GSAS 24

Nazira D.

Barnard ‘25

Naomi Miller

Barnard College ‘27

Duan – Azine

Barnard College '23

“Speaking out against oppressive government structures & the ways that the western world has disregarded human life elsewhere is not something to be censored.”

Aiden Cloud

Columbia College '25

Eva Salmon

Barnard College ‘27

Anjali Vishwanath

School of Social Work and School of Public Health ‘25

Zoe Foshee

Barnard College ‘27

Leilani Mendez

Barnard College ‘25

Nina Havivi – JVP Alum

Barnard College ‘20

Isabel Seward – Housing Equity Project

Barnard College ‘26

Asrah Rizvi

Barnard College ‘24

Lucy Onderdonk

Barnard College '26

Muna A.

Columbia College ‘25

Evelyn Reyes

Columbia College ‘24

Isabel Stern

Barnard College ‘24

Aimar Rosario

Barnard College ‘25

Jannat H.

Barnard College '24

Thais Pena

Barnard College ‘25

Menal S.

Barnard '24

Avita Flores

Barnard College ‘24

“Freedom of speech is essential for a functional academic environment.”

K.S.

Barnard College ‘24

G.H.

Barnard '24

Ana Rico

Barnard College ‘24

Catalina M. G.

Columbia College '25

G.Q.

Columbia School of Social Work '25

Anika K.

Columbia College '25

Jacqueline Yu

Columbia College '24

Meredith Kol Balfour

Barnard college ‘24

Anishka Y.

Barnard College '24

Fiona Cho

Barnard '24

Genesis Vanegas Calvo

Columbia College '24

Bingqian Wang

Barnard College '26

Sophie Brous

School of Social Work ‘25

Panu Hejmadi

Barnard ‘24

“This is not merely a problem of free speech, but a crisis in our very imaginations of freedom.”

Hannah S.

Barnard ‘25

Linda Tang

Columbia College '26

T.W.

SEAS '24

A.T.

School of Social Work ‘25

Eddy Zhang

SEAS ‘25

James L.

School of Social Work ‘25

Amy Zhang

Barnard College ‘23

L.S.

Columbia GS ‘25

Shay O.

Columbia College ‘26

Rachel Burns

Barnard College ‘24

Madeleine C.

Columbia College ‘25

Grace Wang

Barnard College ‘25

G. F.

Barnard ‘25

Maia Laitinen

Barnard College ‘24

Noam Brenner

School of International and Public Affairs 2025

S.C.

School of Social Work ‘25

LSV

Barnard College ‘24

Grace L. – Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Barnard College ‘24

Isabella G. B.

Barnard College ‘25

G.L.

SIPA ‘24

E.G.

Columbia College ‘25

Sofia M.

Columbia College '25

Marisol Ramirez-Buckles

Barnard College ‘26

Melissa Thapa

Teachers College ‘24

Samaya Mansour

Teachers College, Columbia University

Watson F.

Columbia College '25

K.O.

Columbia College ‘25

Brenda Gonzalez – BCAC

Columbia College ‘26

Danielle B.

School of Social Work '25

J.M. – CSSW 4 Palestine

School of Social Work ‘25

“Columbia school of social work is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians. Silencing students and professors advocating for a ceasefire stems from white fragility and white supremacy. Anti Zionism is not Anti-Semitism.”

Bryson Carter

Teachers College '24

School of Social Work ‘25

Briana Sapini

School of Social Work ‘25

Teachers College ‘25

JCL

Barnard College '24

Sultana Sadruddin – TCSU

Teachers College ‘24

“Your silence on genocide is shameful and I bet y’all will make a Center to study the Palestinian genocide in thirty years when no one remembers you condoned it.”

Maeve Daley

Barnard College '25

Elena S.

Barnard College ‘24

C.Z.

Teachers College '25

Brandon Murphy

School of Social Work, 2025

Dani R.

Barnard College ‘25

Rachelle Fishbin

Teachers College '25

Aviva Michaeli

Teachers College ‘24

Talha Arif

VP&S medical school ‘26

Anjana Peddireddi – Housing Equity Project

Columbia College ‘25

T. Chang

Columbia GS ‘24

“Speaking up for the oppressed and vulnerable is dangerous only if you are the oppressor.“

Noga R.

Barnard/JTS ‘27

Ece Doğramacı

Barnard College ‘25

Liliannie Ortiz

Barnard College ‘25

S. L.

Barnard College '26

Johannah King-Slutzky,

GSAS ‘25

Ashling L.

Columbia College '26

Ariel Sheffey

Columbia Law School ‘24

Ibrahim Adnan – Students for Justice in Palestine

“Still not sure why columbia is silencing pro-Palestinian voices.”

Caroline M.

Columbia Law School '26

L.L

Columbia College ‘25

Laura K.

Barnard College ‘25

Estephany H.

Teachers College ‘24

Habeeba Mansour

Barnard College ‘23

Kevin Mahoney – Columbia Sunrise, International Fellows Program, Former Department Representative for SEAS Graduate Council, former Columbia Democrats Group Leader

SEAS '23

“As someone who has been active in government and adjacent roles, it is disheartening to see free speech be discouraged on campus. Columbia should stop acting like a private corporation and restore itself as a changemaker for social advancement and the free exchange of ideas within an environment where students are physically and psychologically safe. The administration's act perpetuates Islamophobia, antisemitism, and hate - the administration needs to act in the interest of its students and community, not its shareholders and the public image that neoliberal corporatists want for the University.”

Fox Williams

Columbia College ‘25

Layla O.

Barnard College ‘26

Ilan Cohen

Caroline Shimeall

Barnard College '23

Zoe Ann Dansdill

Climate School '24

“The quiet violence of silencing voices through intimidation and defamation goes against the supposed spirit of academic institutions like Barnard and Columbia. To have administrations so clearly ignore this practice, and in many cases be taking part in it themselves, is a scary and dangerous reality. I am ashamed of my alma mater, Barnard, and my current university, Columbia, for their refusal to adequately protect the freedom, safety, and voices of their pro-Palestinian students.”

N.R.

Barnard '26

Joy van Hasselt

School of Social Work ‘24

“As a PIC abolitionist, harm reduction advocate and freedom fighter for all minority and marginalized people, I am exhausted by this administration's lack of critical thinking, curiosity and care in a moment where we are all looking for leadership in how to move forward together. It disgusts me to hear and see leadership utilize law and order rhetoric to silence students of dissent. This despicable level of ignorance is elevating—not mitigating—real threats to campus safety. If this does not change, it will be a history that University will not be able to white wash.”

J. D.

School of Engineering and Applied Science '27

Brenley Markowitz – Progressive Jewish Law Society

Columbia Law School ‘26

“Statements like these are exactly what is needed right now to heal tensions on campus and protect students affected by this crisis. Thank you!”

Maya B.

Columbia College ‘25

Daniel Fu

Columbia College ‘25

Nick Newsome

CC ‘24

A.K.

Barnard College, ‘24

S.H.

School of Social Work ‘24 – CCSW

“By silencing students who stand for equality and Justice you are emboldening the power structures and individuals who have been harassing and violently attacking the marginalized. We often wonder when historical tragedies happen how people let it go on? This is a testament to Columbia because not only is it letting it go on, but it is funding the weapons, and silencing the students standing against all forms of oppression. History will not judge this school well. It is time to change its actions and stand for justice.”

T.T.

Barnard College ‘25

S.Q.

Columbia College ‘25

Charlotte Biocchi

GS, '24

Paula D.

School of Social Work ‘25

Tal B.

Barnard ‘26