# 2024-06-03 Columbia Law Review Hijacking

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# Metadata

* **When:** 2024-06-03
* **Where:** Columbia University
* **Who:** [Katherine Franke](/doc/katherine-franke-DnZCaz5Cym)
* **Organizations:** 
* **Tags:** #Faculty

# Description


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**Additional evidence:** [folder](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17UNvE3W4CHO5LqjEXdP-IexOL1eyic5P?usp=share_link)

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The Columbia Law Review (CLR) decided to publish an article, [*__Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept__*](https://columbialawreview.org/content/toward-nakba-as-a-legal-concept/) by Rabea Eghbariah, in violation of CLR’s normal standards of publishing. CLR’s Board of Directors, composed of Columbia Law School faculty, took down CLR’s website prior to publication and issued a [__statement__](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hkAMtGl_xoAo7sxgcsGvBXbDV8CstrR2/view?usp=drive_link) stating that a “secretive process” was used to edit the article, with several members denied the opportunity to review it. Despite the attempt to delay publication and resolve the issue, the article was published, with the Board of Directors later adding a disclaimer on the article. On June 7th, CLR’s student editors [__voted to go on strike__](https://drive.google.com/file/d/12RBxUUpA49rfQYbrVtCqyJRiezJctBgn/view?usp=share_link), demanding the removal of the disclaimer and complete editorial independence from the Board of Directors. The disclaimer was subsequently removed.

Notably, the article had previously been rejected by the Harvard Law Review. The content of the article itself seems legally shaky and blatantly antisemitic, repeatedly seeking to equate Nazism and Zionism, and declaring Israel so uniquely evil as to require new concepts of international law (see excerpts [__here__](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Op4u0dFCCH5fQOBQhD1JjFI5oXf9ttuf?usp=share_link)). Despite this, Columbia professors such as [Katherine Franke](/doc/katherine-franke-DnZCaz5Cym) ([__post__](https://x.com/ProfKFranke/status/1798019026456846794)) and [__Joseph Howley__](https://canarymission.org/professor/Joseph_Howley) ([__post__](https://x.com/hashtagoras/status/1798089473667870866)) advertised it online.

## **Social Media**

* [__https://x.com/columbiafsi/status/1798526028006187206__](https://x.com/columbiafsi/status/1798526028006187206)
* [__https://x.com/efischberger/status/1798283323317309658__](https://x.com/efischberger/status/1798283323317309658)

## **Media**

* [__After publishing an article critical of Israel, Columbia Law Review's website is shut down by board__](https://apnews.com/article/columbia-law-review-israel-article-backlash-da2f924cddec4593b4f17b8baf500969) by Jake Offenhartz, AP News, June 4, 2024
* [__Columbia Law Review student editors to strike after directors intervene with article on Nakba__](https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/06/07/columbia-law-review-student-editors-to-strike-after-directors-intervene-with-article-on-nakba/) by Ayaan Ali, Columbia Daily Spectator, June 7, 2024

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**Documents**

- [DOCUMENTING JEW HATRED ON CAMPUS (DJHC)](https://documentingjewhatredoncampus.getoutline.com/s/93b310d5-95f0-449a-8b9c-8856879b06e8/doc/documenting-jew-hatred-on-campus-djhc-WUPKm3CSLY)
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