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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 591

Columbia University

Anti-Israel protesters exit Columbia University's Butler Library after occupying it on May 7, 2025, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
May 10, 2025, 12:48 am
Columbia suspends more than 65 students for anti-Israel library takeover
Activists put on interim suspension while university probes raucous demonstration; dozens also barred from campus, including alumni
By Luke Tress
A man wearing a shirt celebrating the October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel at funeral rally for Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah, in New York City, February 23, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
May 9, 2025, 11:11 pm
New York passes law backed by Jewish groups to crack down on masked crime
Legislation establishes offense of ‘evading arrest by concealment of identity,’ a watered-down version of proposals aimed at combating upsurge in antisemitism
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather near a main gate at Columbia University in New York, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
May 8, 2025, 4:52 am
US charges man for assaulting Jews in NYC, including Columbia students
Tarek Bazrouk, who Justice Department says showed support for Hamas and described himself as a ‘Jew hater,’ hit with federal hates crimes over alleged assaults at Gaza war protests
By Reuters
Anti-Israel protesters removed and arrested by police, after occupying Columbia University's Butler Library on May 7, 2025, in New York City. (Anusha Subramanian via Reuters)
May 8, 2025, 12:30 am
Columbia University calls in police after anti-Israel activists invade library
Demonstrators call for an ‘intifada revolution,’ disrupting studies before finals week, as the Ivy league school grapples with pressure from Trump administration
By Luke Tress
Mohsen Mahdawi speaks outside the courthouse after a US judge released the Palestinian student activist on April 30, 2025 in Burlington, Vermont. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)
April 30, 2025, 8:11 pm
US judge orders release of Palestinian student activist set for deportation
Lawyers of Mohsen Mahdawi say government can appeal release of West Bank-born Columbia student, who is associated with pro-Hamas groups but has also denounced antisemitism
By AP and ToI Staff
Barnard College in New York City, as seen on August 29, 2024. (Philissa Cramer via JTA)
April 25, 2025, 8:46 am
US government survey asks Barnard College staff if they are Jewish, sparking alarm
Participation in survey, ostensibly aimed at fighting antisemitism, is voluntary, but one Jewish professor says it’s ‘chilling’ that Trump administration is making ‘lists of Jews’
By AP and ToI Staff
Mohsen Mahdawi speaks at a protest on the Columbia University campus on November 9, 2023, in New York City. (Mukta Joshi/Getty Images/AFP)
April 17, 2025, 6:39 am
US: Activism of Columbia anti-Israel protest leader undermines efforts to end Gaza war
NYT reports that memo filed by Marco Rubio says Mohsen Mahdawi also engaged in ‘threatening rhetoric and intimidation of pro-Israeli bystanders’
By JTA and ToI Staff
This image taken from a video provided by Christopher Helali shows Mohsen Mahdawi, an anti-Israel protest leader at Columbia University, being detained at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vt., April 14, 2025. (Christopher Helali via AP)
April 15, 2025, 2:08 am
US immigration detains another Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader
Mohsen Mahdawi, from the West Bank, is taken in by federal agents in Vermont, part of Trump administration’s crackdown on non-citizen activists
By Luke Tress
US student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil on the Columbia University campus in New York at an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (Ted Shaffrey/AP)
April 12, 2025, 1:03 am
Immigration judge rules Columbia anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported
Court rules in favor of Rubio, who said Khalil’s presence in US poses ‘potentially serious foreign policy consequences’; appeal expected and different court has temporarily barred his removal
By Agencies and ToI Staff
FILE - Protesters attend a demonstration in support of Palestinian anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
April 11, 2025, 12:28 pm
US administration argues it can deport prominent anti-Israel activist over his beliefs
Columbia University under pressure to follow federal guidelines on combatting antisemitism as part of conditions to access funding; 12 charged with felonies for Stanford protests
By Agencies
Signs in support of detained graduate student Mahmoud Khalil are readied during the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against US President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in Washington, on April 5, 2025. (Amid Farahi/AFP)
April 9, 2025, 4:43 am
US government faces Wednesday deadline to present evidence against Mahmoud Khalil
Judge says she’ll ‘terminate the case on Friday’ if administration fails to justify attempted deportation of Columbia anti-Israel activist
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Jewish student watches a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest at Columbia University campus on November 14, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via AFP)
April 4, 2025, 7:47 pm
ADL upgrades 19 US colleges’ antisemitism ‘grades,’ as some enact new policies
Watchdog chief: Revision of scores ‘encouraging’; critics argue system fails to take totality of Jewish student life into account, doesn’t focus on campus response to antisemitism
By Andrew Lapin
Katrina Armstrong (Screenshot via JTA)
March 29, 2025, 5:22 am
Columbia’s interim president steps down amid fallout over response to anti-Israel activity
University gives no reason for Katrina Armstrong’s decision to step aside and return to her previous post, says board of trustees co-chair Claire Shipman to take over for now
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A New York City police officer keeps watch on the campus of Columbia University in New York, Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP/Seth Wenig)
March 27, 2025, 10:37 am
Researchers caught in middle as Columbia toes Trump line to restore federal funding
Scientific and medical research teams dependent on funds lament that their work, impacted by $400 million freeze, was sucked into debate on campus antisemitism at Ivy League school
By Philip Marcelo
Protesters rally in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside his court hearing in New York City, March 12, 2025. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)
March 26, 2025, 4:33 pm
Columbia students’ lawyers, street protest groups part of linked anti-Israel network
Legal representatives for allegedly pro-Hamas students threatened with deportation have advised and mentored activists leading disruptive rallies around New York and on campuses
By Luke Tress
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