Mamdani fetes anti-Israel Columbia activist at Gracie Mansion

Mamdani fetes anti-Israel Columbia activist at Gracie Mansion

Mahmoud Khalil, who led Columbia University undergraduates in actions in support of Hamas, was arrested by U.S. federal agents last year.The post Mamdani fetes anti-Israel Columbia activist at Gracie Mansion appeared first on JNS.org.

Columbia’s anti-Israel grad student union makes big demands, prepares to strike

Graduate student unions are relatively new: they weren’t around when I was in graduate school in the Pleistocene.  They are officially part of larger labor unions (the University of Chicago grad student union, for example, is part of  the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (GSU-UE, Local 1103).  Today’s piece is about the Columbia University grad-student union, affiliated with the United Auto Workers. The rationale for stud…