Students walk out of Hillary Clinton’s Columbia class in protest after anti-Israel students exposed by ‘doxxing trucks’
Thirty students walked out of Hillary Clinton’s class at Columbia University to “shame” the Ivy League school for how they perceive it allowed its students who signed an anti-Israel statement to be publicly named and pictured.
The students joined nearly 300 others who peacefully sat in the lobby of the school’s International Affairs Building Wednesday.
Clinton was about halfway through her two-hour lecture on women’s involvement in peace processes when the students packed their bags and left, according to The New York Times.
Clinton reportedly left through a side door and has not publicly addressed the walk out.
Students were protesting against the school’s lack of action to prevent the doxxing of students, whose faces appeared on trucks that drove near the Morningside Heights campus last week.
Students claimed the photographs used on the truck — alongside the words “Columbia’s Leading Anti-Semites” — were taken from a “private and secure” server for students in the School of International and Public Affairs.
It is unclear who leaked the photos, but as the school is presumably the copyright holder of the pictures, it could have potentially taken action to stop them being displayed.
Students are demanding “immediate legal support for affected students” and wants the school to show a “commitment to student safety,” the NYT reported.
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The student letter which sparked the controversy — released via Palestine Solidarity Groups at the school — placed blame on Israel for the ongoing war, writing: “The weight of responsibility for the war and casualties undeniably lies with the Israeli extremist government and other Western governments, including the US government, which fund and staunchly support Israeli aggression, apartheid and settler-colonization.”
The letter condemned the school for “discriminating against Palestinians” and asked the Manhattan university to “stand firmly for accountability and end its ties with apartheid Israel.”
More than 100 professors at the school also signed a letter Monday defending the students who supported Hamas’ terrorist attack on Isreal, which they refererd to as “military action,” on Oct. 7 and asked the school to protect those students.
The Ivy League educators also demanded Columbia “cease issuing statements that favor the suffering and death of Israelis or Jews over the suffering and deaths of Palestinians.”
The university has also launched an antisemitism task force to address the “terribly resilient” hatred that has swept across its campus in the last few weeks.
In a letter to students on Tuesday, University President Minouche Shafik also wrote about the “disturbing incidents in which trucks have circled the Columbia campus displaying and publicizing the names and photos of Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian students.”
She said the university is “assembling available resources to support” and that they are “grateful for the persistence and perseverance of the students, and their families, in the face of this harassment.”
