PNN – The website of the student publication “Columbia Law Review” in the United States was blocked by its board of directors after it published an anti-Zionist article.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from the Associated Press news agency, the editors of the Columbia Law Review, a student publication, say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to stop publishing an academic paper written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and establishing an apartheid regime.
When the editors rejected this request and published the article, the board of directors, which consists of professors and alumni of the US “Columbia University” law school, completely shut down the “Columbia Law Review” website. A static page was then displayed informing the visitor, “The domain is under repair”.
Several editors of the Columbia Law Review described the board’s intervention as an “unprecedented violation of editorial independence” at the journal, which is run by Columbia Law School students. The board of directors previously supervised the financial affairs and had no role in the selection of the contents.
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In the mentioned article, Harvard PhD candidate Rabia Aqbaria accuses Israel of “crimes against humanity”.
In a message, he said the blocking of the journal’s website should be viewed as “a small example of a broader authoritarian crackdown taking place on campuses across the United States.”
Since the beginning of Israel’s brutal attacks on the Gaza Strip, various American cities have witnessed various rallies, demonstrations and campaigns against Israel’s attack on Gaza and opposition to the protectionist policies of the Biden government against the Zionist regime. However, the turning point of these protests in the United States started on April 17 at Columbia University, and its scope reached other universities in the United States and academic centers in the world in a short time.
Anti-Israeli student protests in America began with a peaceful gathering of Columbia University students demanding an end to the war in Gaza and intensified when the New York City police force entered the student camp for mass arrests.
These protests spread on April 22 when students at several universities on the US East Coast – including New York University, Yale University, Emerson College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tufts University – began holding similar rallies, leading to mass arrests including New York and Yale led.
These protests spread across the United States in the following days, reaching various universities in more than 46 of the 50 US states and the District of Columbia.