{"id":455064,"date":"2025-01-13T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=455064"},"modified":"2025-01-13T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T04:24:27","slug":"activists-back-us-professor-forced-from-columbia-over-palestine-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/activists-back-us-professor-forced-from-columbia-over-palestine-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists back US professor \u2018forced\u2019 from Columbia over Palestine advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> New York<br \/>\nAcademics, lawyers and activists have voiced support for a law professor who says she was pressured to leave Columbia University for her advocacy for pro-Palestinian students.<br \/>\n\u201cEffective today, I have reached an agreement with Columbia University that relieves me of my obligations to teach or participate in faculty governance after serving on the Columbia law faculty for 25 years,\u201d Katherine Franke, a tenured law professor at the Ivy League university in the United States, said in a statement on Thursday.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile the university may call this change in my status \u201cretirement,\u201d it should be more accurately understood as a termination dressed up in more palatable terms.<br \/>\nProtests against Israel\u2019s war on Gaza erupted on Columbia\u2019s New York City campus last April and inspired similar encampments at other institutions across the US and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have come to the view that the Columbia University administration has created such a toxic and hostile environment for legitimate debate around the war in Israel and Palestine that I can no longer teach or conduct research,\u201d Franke said.<\/p>\n<p>Students demanded that the university divest from Israel, which has been accused of war crimes and genocide in Gaza. They also called for a ceasefire to end the war that has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians and turned Gaza into rubble.<br \/>\nThe prestigious Ivy League school, however, attempted to push back against the students\u2019 protests \u2013 a crackdown that brought criticisms from rights organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Academics, lawyers and activists have voiced support for a law professor who says she was pressured to leave Columbia University for her advocacy for pro-Palestinian students. \u201cEffective today, I have reached an agreement with Columbia University that relieves me of my obligations to teach or participate in faculty governance after serving on the 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