Columbia University punishes the demonstrators students who occupied the building of the campus

The University of Colombia said on Thursday that it had brought out a set of sanctions for students who occupied a building on the campus last spring during the pro -Palestinian protests.

This announcement came a week after the US President Donald Trump’s administration announced that it had canceled $ 400 million in grants and federal contracts in response to what he said was in response to the Ivy School’s robe on the campus on the campus.

Katrina Armstrong, President of Colombia, Katrina Armstrong, described the fears of the legitimate administration and said that the university is working with the government to address it. The protests and supporters of Israel on the New York City campus have acquired allegations of anti -Semitism, Islamophobia and racism.

The university said in a statement on Thursday that its judicial council “issued penalties for students ranging from multi -year suspension, abolishing temporary grades, and mutations” related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall in the school last spring.

The Judicial Council consists of students, faculty and employees who have been chosen by the University Senate.

The university did not issue, referring to legal privacy restrictions, the names of the students who were disciplined, and the number of students who faced penalties, which students can appeal.

The union, which represents the workers of Colombia, UAW Local 2710, said in a statement that its president, Grant Miner, was among the students who were expelled, just one day before the negotiations with the university are scheduled to start, a step called the Federation “the last attack on the rights of the first amendment.”

A university spokesman had no comment on the union statement.

Colombia was the center of anti -Israel protests, which struck many American universities campus.

The demonstrations began after Hamas’s attack on Israel in October 2023 and the Israeli -backed Israeli attack on Gaza. The demonstrators demanded compensation for Israeli interests and that the United States will help Israel among other demands.

The Trump administration has pledged to repress it for what it calls as protesters in support of Hamas.

During the weekend federal immigration agents Columbia student, detained Mahmoud KhalilThe leader of the campus protest last year, the Trump administration is seeking to deport it. The administration said that his detention was the first of many hopes. Khalil was temporarily banned by a federal judge.