Thousands of university students in the United States have been arrested in recent weeks while protesting their schools’ financial ties to Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza. A number of those arrested were students at Columbia University in New York City, which was at the forefront of the protests—and the arrests.
The Columbia Protests and the Economics of Divestment
What would meeting the demands of pro-Palestinian protesters cost the university?
A protester wears the university’s disciplinary warning covered over by support for Palestinians in Gaza at Columbia University in New York City on April 29. Alex Kent/Getty Images
Cameron Abadi is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @CameronAbadi
Adam Tooze is a columnist at Foreign Policy and a history professor and the director of the European Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of Chartbook, a newsletter on economics, geopolitics, and history. Twitter: @adam_tooze
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