Columbia Professors Cancel Classes in Solidarity With Pro-Hamas Activist in ICE Custody
Jessica Costescu and Jessica Schwalb | 10 March 2025 | The Washington Free Beacon
Some Columbia University professors canceled in-person classes on Monday in support of Mahmoud Khalil, the student activist and foreign national whom the Trump administration moved to deport over his pro-Hamas campus organizing. The cancellations—which came amid a pressure campaign from the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter—put the professors at odds with Columbia's provost, who emailed "faculty colleagues" Monday morning to issue "a reminder that faculty must meet all scheduled classes."..