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FSJP-CBT
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We are a collective of Columbia University, Barnard College & Teachers College faculty, staff, and graduate workers dedicated to Palestinian freedom
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A sentiment we can get behind
March 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Barnard, reinstate our students! 🇵🇸 🎓
Photo of a Palestinian flag with a note on it (over an official letter from a college administrator) that reads "I ain't reading all that ... reinstate our students!"
March 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The police violence
Photo of the NYPD arresting a student Photo of menacing police on a college campus Photo of menacing police on a college campus Photo of the NYPD SRG
March 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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FSJP-CBT (Columbia Barnard Teachers College):

We unequivocally condemn the violence police action on Barnard’s campus today.
Graphic with on a keffiyeh pattern that reads “We unequivocally condemn the violence police action on Barnard’s campus today.”
March 6, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Columbia spends millions on campus security while faculty and staff are threatened with budget cuts, hiring freezes and austerity and students face ongoing harassment and surveillance. We all want the gates opened and the private security removed. Sign the petition and share. bit.ly/CUopenthegates
photo of a locked gate with the text Columbia, open the gates! bit.ly/CUopenthegates Columbia spends _millions_ on campus security while faculty & staff are threatened with *budget cuts, hiring freezes, and AUSTERITY* Sign the petition to show *your* support for an open campus for all! The Columbia community deserves an *open* and *inclusive* environment Students, faculty, researchers, staff, alumni, and the NYC community *want* the gates gone bit.ly/CUopenthegates Since the Gaza Solidarity Encampments in April of last year, Columbia has locked the campus gates and spent untold millions of dollars on security forces to impose this policy. Conditions & morale have deteriorated. Getting to and from our places of work & study is riddled with annoyances, disruptions, and delays. The locked gates & buildings deny access for: • faculty & staff, who have difficulty utilizing the tools and resources that are necessary to work and provide a healthy educational environment for our student body • alumni, who were promised lifetime access to Columbia libraries, and are now effectively banned from campus • students, who lose access to places of community, libraries, gyms, and other amenities. Some students have even been surveilled and harassed, by private investigators hired bully the administration bit.ly/CUopenthegates • community members, who are denied even the simple pleasure of taking a stroll along College Walk All of this impacts the accessibility of the campus and isolates Columbia from New York City. The locked gates face overwhelming criticism from students, alumni, faculty, & staff. Yet the administration refuses to change their policies. Let's change that. Sign the petition to tell Columbia to OPEN THE GATES!
March 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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No libraries left in Gaza: study-in at NYPL organized by CUNY4Palestine www.instagram.com/p/DD2IAkAJ9iu/
Photo of people reading at the New York Public Library Research Library (named after a rich guy Zionist) with signs that say things like "Palestine will be free."
December 22, 2024 at 9:20 PM
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... Surely, if this is an official CAA club or shared interest group the University can investigate their activities as clear &evident violations of its bylaws if not Title VI violations. If this is not an official CAA club or shared interest group, we anticipate that the University ...
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December 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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... that Alumni Association affiliated groups must “strengthen the University’s worldwide alumni community and its bonds of fellowship” and “sustain the connection between such community and the University.” They also violate the Alumni Association code of conduct ...
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December 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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... by posting personal details that leave them vulnerable to further attacks - including the times, days and location of classes they teach at Columbia [see for instance]
screenshots of Columbia Jewish Alumni Assoc tweets with names redacted
December 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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This group also seems to have strongly networked affiliations with other groups, including Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (DJHC) and, together, they regularly post inflammatory material that not only misrepresents faculty and staff but also puts them in danger ...
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December 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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... The Columbia Jewish Alumni Association (CJAA) is using the Columbia name, its colors, photos of Low Library, a logo fashioned after Columbia's, and is branding itself as 'the' voice of Jewish alums. ...
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December 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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🇵🇸 Our letter to the Columbia Alumni Association on doxxing, harassment and slander of our members on 12.17.24:

"We are a concerned group of faculty and staff with different affiliations, including the Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) and other allied groups. ...
The following text in a box frame that has keffiyeh themed elements, "We are a concerned group of faculty and staff with different affiliations, including the Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) and other allied groups. We are writing to focus your attention on an ad hoc group that has engaged in harassment and slander of members of the Columbia community, and which is masquerading as a legitimate alumni association."
December 22, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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#ReadPalestine Week event at Columbia University's Butler Library, room 301: Wed 12/4 10:30-12:30. Show up ready to read books and zines about Palestine and #scholasticide. 📚 🇵🇸
Read Palestine Week flyer in red, white, green, and black with a green bespectacled person reading a black book with a keffiyeh design and a a red Gaza shape. FSJP-CBT logo, QR code and the same details shared in the post.
December 4, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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We start this spring semester with a statement from faculty and staff at Columbia, Barnard and Teacher's college.

Keep an eye out for our posters across campus! Columbia SJP, JVP, and Columbia Apartheid Divest, as well as Rutgers FJP, join us in this campaign.
On Dec 8th, 2023, as the world watched in horror, Refaat Alareer, a professor of English literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza, a renowned poet, writer, and translator, and activist was assassinated by the Israeli military. His killing was but the latest salvo in a campaign to destroy higher education and intellectual life in Gaza: the Islamic University of Gaza had already been destroyed, prominent academics killed, and archives and intellectual centers bombed and rampaged. At least 200 teachers and academics, and 79 journalists have already been killed. To date, the Israeli military has killed over 30,000 civilians, a campaign of death and destruction made possible by the military and moral support of the US government. The war on Gaza has targeted civilians, including an alarming number of children, health workers, journalists, artists, academics, and university administrators and staff. (Continues) This, in combination with the unconscionable denial of humanitarian aid, has already landed Israel with a public hearing put forward by the Republic of South Africa for acts of genocide at the International Justice Court on January 11th and 12th. The targeted killing of writers and journalists in Palestine covering or reporting on the occupation or the war makes it increasingly difficult to learn the extent of the ongoing devastation. But there is no doubt about the extent of Israel's ongoing targeted attacks on university libraries, archives, and schools and systematic targeting of infrastructure and people of Gaza's civil society: the bombing of hospitals and universities and the attacks on health-workers, students, faculty and staff, journalists and artists; the unconscionable denial of humanitarian aid as well as basic goods of food and water to cause intentional starvation of the whole region. Today, we have circulated posters drawing attention to this war on academia in Gaza.
January 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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Join us for our poster campaign! Print these out. Put them up wherever you are. Let's remember and honor all the Gazan academics killed by Israel since October 7.

On our campus you’ll find these on office doors, bulletin boards, and in windows. Put them up in your workplace and tag us in a photo!
A poster titled UNIVERSITY FACULTY & STAFF KILLED IN GAZA BY ISRAEL 10/7/23-1/7/23 listing almost 40 names of professors, deans, and staff at half a dozen universities - only a fraction of more than 30,000 civilians killed
January 16, 2024 at 2:29 PM