There’s a new pro-Palestine student organization at Columbia University, the Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition (CPSC). It was established by students who disaffiliated from Columbia’s other anti-Israel group, the controversial Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD).
“The Columbia Palestine Solidarity Coalition is a collective of Palestinian student organizers who wish to reclaim the pro-Palestinian student movement and recenter Palestine at Columbia University,” members of the group announced in an op-ed published in The Columbia Spectator in October.
CPSC promises to recenter the anti-Israel student movement on Palestine, instead of other left-wing demands.
“It pains us to realize that the student body no longer seems to know the updates on the ground,” the group wrote. “Our peers are unaware of the severity of the situation because CUAD has lost focus, opting to center individual organizers and revolutionary ideals over our core demands.”
“Statements and actions by CUAD in recent months have alienated and abandoned Palestinian students in the name of pursuing ideology,” the group continued. In total, the op-ed listed four demands, one of which is for the university administration to divest from companies that have financial connections to the state of Israel. […]
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