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On 1 June 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupation to 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations. The result of the discussion was moved.

Text and/or other creative content from 2024 Columbia University pro-Palestinian campus occupations was copied or moved into 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses with this edit on January 13, 2025. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Requested edit to the "Participants" section

Would someone please add this at the end of that section? Thank you.

One of the leaders of the protest was Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student.^[1]^[2]

A Plumbing I Will Go (talk) 00:17, 10 March 2025 (UTC) A Plumbing I Will Go (talk) 00:17, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see that a variation of that has been added. Thanks! A Plumbing I Will Go (talk) 12:01, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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1. REQUESTED EDIT to footnote 256:

Please change this:

Najjar, Farah; Adler, Nils; Pietromarchi, Virginia. "'I do not feel threatened as a Jewish faculty member in any way'". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on May 2, 2024. Retrieved April 30, 2024.

to this:

Najjar, Farah; Adler, Nils; Pietromarchi, Virginia. "'Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Evidence of torture, executions in mass grave'". Al Jazeera. April 25, 2024 11:50am GMT. Archived from the original on May 2, 2024. Retrieved April 30, 2025.

EXPLANATION:

The original footnote omits the date the article was published. This is the article being quoted from: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/4/25/israels-war-on-gaza-live-calls-grow-for-gaza-mass-graves-investigation?update=2858976

Also in the original the "retrieved" date is confusingly before the "archived" date, looks like a mistake.

2. REQUESTED EDIT TO BODY OF WIKI PAGE:

Please change this:

Susan Bernofsky, a Columbia professor, said:

to this:

Susan Bernofsky, a Columbia professor, said on April 24 or earlier:

EXPLANATION:

The article was published 11:50am GMT on April 25, 2024. Since this is 6:50am in New York, it means that the interview itself was conducted on April 24, 2024 at the latest. Given how sensitive the timeline of the unfolding events on Columbia's campus is during this period, it is important to give a *date* to each quote about these rapidly-escalating protests. Odryfuss (talk) 11:21, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Odryfuss

1) I added the date to the source, but I didn't see the point in changing the title, as the link goes directly to the correct section

2) Actually, 7:50 in New York. I did what you asked for (if in a different way), but actually, from our article I cannot see that anything of importance happened on April 25 that would make it important that she said was quoted at this exact date and time and not, for instance, in the evening of April 25. But anyway, I made the edit. Lova Falk (talk) 14:20, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says, Associated Press, March 9, 2025, Archive
^ US immigration agents arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University, Reuters, March 9, 2025, Archive

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Source 223 is cited incorrectly:

Change "Wing, Riya Mahanta, Jaya Shankar, and Kimberly (March 5, 2025). "CUAD launches sit-in at Barnard's Milstein Library, declares building the "Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Liberated Zone"". The Barnard Bulletin. Retrieved April 5, 2025." to "Riya Mahanta, Jaya Shankar, and Kimberly Wing (March 5, 2025). "CUAD launches sit-in at Barnard's Milstein Library, declares building the "Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Liberated Zone"". The Barnard Bulletin. Retrieved April 5, 2025." Yornoir (talk) 00:27, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

fixed. thanks! Rainsage (talk) 23:42, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Request to add a section to the Sunlight Report, a reappraisal of the Sundial Report, that was written by a team of Columbia's senior faculty, including several serving University Senators. The Sunlight Report identified 470 cases of errors, omissions, and bias in the Sundial Report and was featured in a New York Law Journal commentary by retired Judge David Saxe (https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2025/06/17/thoughts-on-columbia-universitys-dilemma-and-a-proposed-solution-/?slreturn=20250723105206).

The Sunlight Report may be found here: https://standcolumbia.org/wp-content/uploads/sunlight/The-Sunlight-Report-20250430-vF.pdf

The new section should be:

April 30, 2025

A group led by senior faculty from eight out of Columbia's twelve constituent faculties, including several serving University Senators, released the Sunlight Report, a reappraisal of the Sundial Report [source: https://standcolumbia.org/wp-content/uploads/sunlight/The-Sunlight-Report-20250430-vF.pdf]. The Sunlight Report identified 470 instances of error, omission, and bias in the Sundial Report. In addition, the Sunlight Report criticized the Sundial Report's lack of authorization and issuance in violation of the University Statutes, anonymous authorship and lack of transparency, potential misuse of institutional resources, evidentiary and analytical deficiencies, opaque and restrictive review process, and mishandled public release.

The Sunlight Report issued six recommendations including formal withdrawal of the Sundial Report, paired archival treatment, disclosure of authorship and process, release of evidentiary materials, sponsorship of an independent commission, and safeguards against retaliation [source: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2025/06/17/thoughts-on-columbia-universitys-dilemma-and-a-proposed-solution-/?slreturn=20250723105206] Hedgehog1817 (talk) 15:01, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says, Associated Press, March 9, 2025, Archive

[2] US immigration agents arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University, Reuters, March 9, 2025, Archive

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