Pro-Palestine activists call out Columbia’s disparate responses to student arrests

College Activists Promote Pro-Iran Message - Patriot Newsfeed

Columbia University is distancing itself from a controversial activist group using its name after a series of social media posts praising Iran and condemning the United States sparked outrage. The group, calling itself “Columbia University Apartheid Divest” (CUAD), posted on X following the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was reportedly killed in joint U.S.-Israeli military operations on Feb. 28. In one post, the acco…

Pro-Palestine activists call out Columbia’s disparate responses to student arrests

Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism’s mission and the humans behind it. The recent arrest of a Columbia University student by federal agents and the university’s swift denunciation of it have further exposed the school’s mistreatment and neglect of Palestine solidarity activists who were arrested or disciplined in the past year, some studen…