Trump unleashes witch hunts on campuses: repression, blacklists and threats in Columbia

A library taken. A nation that criminalizes protest. Columbia has once again become a symbol. Not of academic freedom, but of police brutality and institutional submission. Last Wednesday, New York police arrested some 70 people—several of them international students—for peacefully occupying part of the Butler library. Their crime: deploying a Palestinian flag and demanding that the university stop profiting from companies that collaborate with …