As a student, Mahdawi was an outspoken critic of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and organized campus protests until March 2024. He co-founded the Palestinian Student Union at Columbia with Mahmoud ...

Trump issued demands after threatening to withhold $400 million. Columbia University appears to have ceded to the Trump administration's demands after a threat to withhold $400 million in federal ...

Columbia University has a $400-million question: Deal with the loss of canceled federal contracts and grants over alleged antisemitism on campus or cave to Trump demands that have been criticized ...

Columbia University caved. After the Trump administration cut off $400 million in federal funding based on the claim that the university had failed to protect Jewish students from harassment ...