# 2025-04-17 Day of Action

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# Metadata

* **When:** 2025-04-17
* **Where:** Columbia University

# Description


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Several Columbia student groups posted [fliers](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19oeNNOGBcQN2X9YzB5YZd_ExyMj70CTu?usp=share_link) on social media about a “Day of Action” on 4/17/2025. The flier reads, “resist the consent decree! Calls to action: Do not attend classes! Mask up! Attend the rally, open forum, and march!”. The flier outlined the schedule as follows:

* Rally on Sundial at 12:30pm
* Open forum at 1:30pm
* March at 2:30pm

Another flier also circulated that read “Hands off. Emergency Rally” with images of [Mahmoud Khalil](/doc/91264cc5-40ee-4ae7-8670-adbe0e387923) and [Mohsen Mahdawi](/doc/2e40afb8-fec0-450f-97c5-7e62f94d6201). CUSU, [ColumbiaJVP](/doc/6e668456-43c5-481f-b9f2-550b450bb0a2) , and [SWC](/doc/ff3eaaf5-29a0-4ec9-9f55-9918469677d4) UAW 2710 are included on the flier.

[CUStudentUnion](/doc/b1b4c7d1-940b-41e7-9cbe-c99e0cc85e02) [posted](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kqNSq_x2VNCYG9oPTPuhs0m3rPDbeN_u?usp=share_link) about “Protest Safety and Calls to Action” on Instagram. The post offers advice for not being identified including wearing “black/non-descript clothing,” covering up tattoos, piercings, and eyebrows, wearing a mask and covering your head, not swiping your CUID and avoiding the Columbia WiFi.

The protest took place at the Sundial as planned and featured many masked participants. A [pamphlet](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xf3XINHZ--Egzv2m6adUgL33rHYG4Yr7?usp=share_link) was passed out. The cover read: “Columbia University Student Union Student Strike.” The pamphlet encourages students to sign a strike pledge and includes information about the strike. “There can be no business as usual while our peers are kidnapped and our trustees orchestrated our brutalization.”

Eventually the group [marched loudly](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iCVzOCamrWlsXmACIW3tbaeRa1_j7PMp?usp=share_link) around the lawn and in front of academic buildings including Butler Library, which disrupted students studying. As a result of the protest and marching, public safety was forced to close the gates for safety. Chants included slogans about divestment, “free our students,” and “fascist USA”. **It does not look like public safety asked anyone for identification despite disruption to academic activities, face coverings used to hide identities, and potentially antisemitic chanting.**

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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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- [COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ARCHIVE](https://documentingjewhatredoncampus.getoutline.com/s/93b310d5-95f0-449a-8b9c-8856879b06e8/doc/columbia-university-archive-epk0gmmFWv)