Can an Israeli and a Palestinian restaurant coexist peacefully in the shadow of Columbia University?

Can an Israeli and a Palestinian restaurant coexist peacefully in the shadow of Columbia University?

In the fall of 2023, in response to protests following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and Israel’s invasion of Gaza, Columbia University closed its wrought-iron gates. Since then, the Ivy League school in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood has rarely left the news cycle. With the encampments, student occupation of Hamilton Hall, police in riot gear, congressional hearings on campus antisemitism, and ICE arrests of student activists, Columbia has…