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Columbia's Barnard College is first to expel students over Gaza war
26 February 2025 21:42 GMT
Two students on Friday were expelled from Barnard College, which is part of Columbia University, for disrupting a class as an act of political protest.
The students were part of a group of four who walked into a "history of modern Israel" class on the first day of the spring semester on 21 January to “provide a discursive alternative” to a class they say “dodged questions of Palestinian self-determination and whitewashed the ongoing genocide” in Gaza.
The students distributed fliers, which interim president Katrina Armstrong says contained “violent imagery that is unacceptable on our campus”.
Three days later, two of the students faced interim suspensions and were banned from all campus facilities. On Friday, they were formally expelled.