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The Faculty of Laws at Columbia University condemned the administration response to Anti-Israeli protest at the campus library on Wednesday, resulting in dozens of arrests.
A letter of executive committee of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in Columbia intended to solve “joint management erosion” denied the decision made by President Claire Shipman to invite NYPD for help.
The protest broke out on Wednesday afternoon when anti-Israeli agitators broke into the Butler Library, occupying the Reading Room from the inside and breaking one of the outside doors of the building. Two police officers at the campus were also injured during the protest.
Said Nypd 80 arrests have been made, And Fox News learned that approximately 50 of these people were confirmed that they were Columbia students.
The US University Professors’ Association (AAUP) in Columbia criticized the University’s decision to contact NYPD on Wednesday to engage in download at the Butler Library. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
In his letter, AAUP mainly ignored the details of the protest, which damaged and disturbed the study area for students prepared for the finals and described the incident as “tragic”, focusing on the “institutional slider of the University according to the executive rule”.
The group said in an attempt to “place” Trump’s administration, The Colombian leadership weakened academic freedom, shared management and student protest, “echoes the authoritarian Etos, which he now holds in Washington.”
“Since Trump’s administration has requested more and more draconian attacks on student protest, our administration responded by giving increased public security powers that can easily escalate as conflicts with students and who did not prevent the administration again to invite NYPD to Campus last night,” the group wrote in part.
Before the protest on Wednesday, Shipman said he would examine and reform the university’s Senate, which is Governing body in Columbia It consists of selected representatives of all campus departments, in the midst of negotiations with the Federal Government due to the drastic reduction of the funding of the University.
In March, Columbia lost more than $ 400 million federal scholarships after Trump’s administration said the school failed to resolve an increase in anti -Semitism in the campus.
President Donald Trump is pushing for anti-Israelic protests at the college campuses, including Columbia University, withholding $ 400 million of federal funding. (Getty Images)
Aaup urged her not to follow the examination while the university experiences a “moment of crisis,”
“By imposing this review at the moment and in this way, the Chairman and the Custodian Committee aim for joint management and replaced it with corporate management from above downwards, indicating a deep misunderstanding of what requires university leadership and fiduciary obligations,” the group said.
The group has shared a list of six recommendations, which require a “united answer to the current crisis”, instead of dismantling the structure of decisions that have existed for decades.
Protest stickers were placed on the door at the Butler Library at the Columbia University Campus on May 7, 2025 in New York. (Indy Scholtens/Getty Images)
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AAUP was also loud in his criticism of Columbia for punishing, suspending and expulsion of students involved in Anti-Israeli protest at the campus.
One of the recommendations of the group includes a radical improvement of “Protocol of Mediation, Counseling and Deescalation for Currently Disorders in Campus, especially student protests.”
