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• When: 2025-02-07

• Where: Columbia University

• Who: Debbie Becher , Susan Bernofsky, Elizabeth Bernstein, Yinon Cohen, Jack Halberstam, Marianne Hirsch, Joseph Howley, Daniel Malinsky, Nara Milanich, Manijeh Moradian, Robert Newton, James Piacentini, Alisa Solomon, Bruce Robbins, and James Schamus
  

• Organizations: FSJP-CBT

• Tags: @tatag-Faculty

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On February 7, 2025, anti-Israel Columbia faculty, including members of FSJP-CBT, penned an op-ed in the Columbia University’s newspaper “Columbia Daily Spectator” titled Protecting our university from Trump’s cruel agenda means resisting his instrumentalization of antisemitism (saved copy).

The op-ed calls on the faculty and other Columbia affiliates to resist the January 29, 2025 Executive Order titled "Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism.”

Additional faculty that signed the form are (see the full list here):

• Nina Berman, Journalism

• Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, GSAS

• Michael Harris, Mathematics, GSAS

• D. Max Moerman, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard

• Ross Hamilton, English, Barnard

• J. Blake Turner, Psychiatry, Associate Professor of Social Science, CUMC

• Jeffrey Fagan, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law

• Sharon Schwartz, Epidemiology, CUMC

• Taylor Carman, Philosophy, Barnard

• Yannik Thiem, Religion, GSAS Yannik Thiem
  

• Tim Paine, Computer Science, GSAS

• Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History (Emerita), GSAS

• Rebecca Jordan-Young, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Barnard Rebecca Jordan-Young
  

• Jennifer Lena (GSAS ‘03), Arts and Humanities, Teachers College Jennifer Lena
  

• Kim Phillips-Fein, History, GSAS

• Susan S. Witte, Social Work

• Elwin Wu, Social Work Elwin Wu
  

• Frederick Neuhouser, Philosophy, Barnard

• Melanie Brewster, Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College Melanie Brewster
  

• Seymour Spilerman, Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Social Sciences (emeritus), Sociology, GSAS

• Sophie Queuniet, French, GSAS

• Illan Gonen, MESAAS, GSAS

• Wayne Proudfoot, Religion, GSAS (emeritus)

• Ken Miller, Peter Taylor Professor of Neuroscience, ZMBBI

• Mae Ngai, History, GSAS

• Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, GSAS

• Karen Van Dyck, Kimon A. Doukas Professor, Modern Greek Language and Literature, GSAS

• Katherine Franke (BC ‘81), James L. Dohr Professor of Law, retired Katherine Franke
  

• Laura Fair, MESAAS, GSAS (retired)

• Gil Eyal, Sociology, GSAS

• Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities (Emerita), ENCL, GSAS Jean Howard
  

• Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, GSAS

• Mary McLeod, GSAPP

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