The lawsuit was filed on Monday, the same day that a Republican-led Congressional committee announced a hearing on antisemitism at Columbia.
The lawsuit accuses Columbia of violating its own rules by suspending the two groups, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for PeaceColumbia University is being sued by the New York Civil Liberties Union over the school's decision last fall to suspend two student groups that protested Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war.
That protest came in the heated weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks that sparked the war and Israel's subsequent ground invasion of Gaza, when demonstrations were organized by both pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel students at Columbia and other U.S. campuses. Students on both sides complained of harassment and bias incidents.
Palestine Legal senior staff attorney Radhika Sainath said universities"must abide by their own rules and may not punish student groups speaking out for Palestinian rights in the moment when they are most essential -– even if donors and lobby groups complain.” University President Minouche Shafik and the two co-chairs of Columbia's Board of Trustees are expected to testify at the April 17 hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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