In October 2024, pro-Palestinian activists marched on Columbia University's campus, on New York's Upper West Side, chanting "Resistance is glorious! We will be victorious!" They held up signs that read "LONG LIVE THE AL-AQSA FLOOD," commemorating Hamas's murderous assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7. One of my professors, struggling to make herself heard over the cacophony, told us that students had been emailing her, telling her that they did not feel safe and would be absent. Another professor told us that we'd be welcome to leave for "personal reasons."

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