At least three university people at Columbia University canceled classes to rally the imprisonment of pro-Hamas Arab advocate Mahmoud Khalil.  ,
Khalil is being deported for spreading racist love and supporting violence. The university members canceled classes despite the dean telling faculty of their commitment to tell.
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” Less than two weeks after Khalil’s Saturday night imprisonment, at least three faculty members — English teacher Joseph Albernaz, philosophy professor Ruairidh MacLeod, and an unknown next — emailed students to withdraw courses or eliminate presence requirements”, reports the Washington Free Beacon.
An email from an unknown Columbia University professor claimed that the school failed to offer “any major protestations” that foreign kids” who might be targeted additional” would be safe. Since many individuals are “afraid to go on or near school, I am closing groups”.
Albernaz sent an email saying,” I cannot see how I can hold a typical class right now under these current conditions, nor how you can be expected to prepare for an exam, so I am cancelling in person class tomorrow and cancelling the mid-term scheduled for Thursday ( everyone will receive an’ A’ on the midterm )”.
Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition, the native Students for Justice in Palestine book, tried to pressure faculty into canceling their lessons. The SJP handed out sample emails for students to send to their professors urging them to cancel class.
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Columbia provost Angela Olinto emailed faculty members to stress that, amid” a stressful time for many on campus”, classes and exams” will continue as usual in person”.
” We want to urge generosity and mutual patience as we navigate this together, especially as students study for their midterms”, Olinto wrote on Monday. ” This is also a reminder that faculty must meet all scheduled classes, as stated in the handbook, and that the provost’s office will announce any unexpected changes to the modality of course offerings”.
Columbia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, sent a university-wide email on Monday attempting to quell concerns about immigration officials on campus. ” I understand the distress that many of you are feeling about the presence of U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) agents in the streets around campus”, Ms. Armstrong wrote. ” I feel it too and am working with our team to manage the response”.
Ms. Armstrong assured that rumors of ICE’s presence on campus were “false” and added that “law enforcement must have a judicial warrant to enter non-public University areas, including residential University buildings”.
She conceded that the university was in a” challenging moment” but reiterated Columbia’s commitment to its core values: “freedom of expression, open inquiry, a wide range of perspectives, and respectful debate”.
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” These are Columbia’s values, they are America’s values, they are essential to a functioning democracy, and we will fight for them”, Armstrong wrote. ” We do this for our students and for our future”.
The SJP is ginning up hysteria about Donald Trump’s stormtroopers sweeping the campus looking for anyone who attended an anti-Israel rally. These professors are helping. If they believe it, they have no business teaching at any school in the United States.
And if they’re lying, they have no business teaching at any school in the United States.
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