# 2025-02-07 Op-Ed Protecting our university from Trump’s cruel agenda...

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* **When:** 2025-02-07
* **Where:** Columbia University
* **Who:** [Debbie Becher](/doc/bf8133cb-a0c7-4cb6-90b8-df33c60a57bb) , [Susan Bernofsky](/doc/4f29cd1e-55c8-42a3-84cc-7e4923496e59), Elizabeth Bernstein, [Yinon Cohen](/doc/3f8d881e-6b83-4219-9470-c5eb19bd0dd8), [Jack Halberstam](/doc/6f08cd50-cc75-4bfb-8c29-d74344703d1a), [Marianne Hirsch](/doc/a070c869-b208-4651-9e47-c75797f04108), [Joseph Howley](/doc/48c31c99-60f2-403e-955a-9bd41475d2ca), [Daniel Malinsky](/doc/e13608fa-e4ee-45a1-aac5-a9920649df1d), Nara Milanich, [Manijeh Moradian](/doc/8735bc29-9ff2-49c6-b7d4-2bad89801b2a), Robert Newton, [James Piacentini](/doc/ee03051f-6eb4-466a-860e-ee8d9bf2671f), Alisa Solomon, [Bruce Robbins](/doc/7b5935b9-562e-4b67-b025-94f404ed3625), and [James Schamus](/doc/962819ce-9eee-4f60-a258-cfcdaed62700)
* **Organizations:** [FSJP-CBT](/doc/236ed04c-8186-4215-850b-0e835006b90f) 
* **Tags: @ta**[tag-Faculty](/doc/8f551269-6fa6-4e88-b515-30aa0f7510a4) 

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On February 7, 2025, anti-Israel Columbia faculty, including members of [FSJP-CBT](/doc/236ed04c-8186-4215-850b-0e835006b90f), penned an [op-ed](https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/02/07/protecting-our-university-from-trumps-cruel-agenda-means-resisting-his-instrumentalization-of-antisemitism/) in the Columbia University’s newspaper “Columbia Daily Spectator” titled [Protecting our university from Trump’s cruel agenda means resisting his instrumentalization of antisemitism](https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025/02/07/protecting-our-university-from-trumps-cruel-agenda-means-resisting-his-instrumentalization-of-antisemitism/) ([saved copy](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1epeO6KCM4H-bDKt55lRtmLu7nHO81D3u/view?usp=drive_link)).

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](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/).”

Additional faculty that signed the form are (see the full list [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSLWSElNarZLd4Fci1ifiisyb2uygqMxsrhUWDjV5f1l8lf58ZxAwxTPkp7ew5FRqGThQsDinWQjkKF/pub)):

* 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](/doc/0b06fb51-36a5-40ce-acd7-cf93b51eef20)
* 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](/doc/b280431b-ad13-43d1-b045-6095266ebcc4)
* Jennifer Lena (GSAS ‘03), Arts and Humanities, Teachers College [Jennifer Lena](/doc/f95d8a5c-f91f-4958-9519-54a4986555a6)
* Kim Phillips-Fein, History, GSAS
* Susan S. Witte, Social Work
* Elwin Wu, Social Work [Elwin Wu](/doc/c34be4a2-8013-4e61-ad29-e76a850e3908)
* Frederick Neuhouser, Philosophy, Barnard
* Melanie Brewster, Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College [Melanie Brewster](/doc/f82b7e2f-96ff-4606-a42f-6c77c888ad3e)
* 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](/doc/fecfad2e-69d1-4160-bc6a-6d10cd251b8a)
* Laura Fair, MESAAS, GSAS (retired)
* Gil Eyal, Sociology, GSAS
* Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities (Emerita), ENCL, GSAS [Jean Howard](/doc/8702edf1-aed2-4e05-b6cc-001304882ad7)
* Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, GSAS
* Mary McLeod, GSAPP


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