Despite running a philosophy magazine of the same name, Aharon Dardik, GS ’26, doesn’t publicly identify as a gadfly of the state. To do so would be a bit “cringe,” he said.

Around 60 Columbia affiliates gathered on Low Steps on Thursday—the second anniversary of the April 2024 occupation of Hamilton Hall—holding portraits of Palestinian academics killed in the war in Gaza and demanding the University financially divest from Israel.

A panel hosted Wednesday by the Columbia chapter of Students Supporting Israel that featured two members of the Israeli military drew fierce opposition, with dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathering outside Lerner Hall to protest the event.

Over two dozen demonstrators gathered at the 116th Street and Broadway gates Wednesday afternoon to protest ongoing U.S. and Israeli military action in Iran.

A truck with digital billboards displayed the names of over 50 students identified as alleged “leaders” of CU Apartheid Divest outside of Columbia’s Morningside campus on Monday and Tuesday after the group sparked a wave of backlash for writing “Marg bar Amrika”—Farsi for “Death to America”—in an X post on Saturday.