Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime.
When the editors refused the request and published the piece on Monday morning, the board – composed of faculty and alumni from Columbia University’s law school – shut down the law review’s website entirely. It remained offline on Tuesday evening, a static homepage informing visitors the domain “is under maintenance”.
This article from Democracy Now interviews Rabea Eghbariah, the lawyer that wrote it, and has the entire censored article embedded:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/5/harvard_columbia_law_school_nakba_censorship
Direct link to censored article (pdf):
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24733670/toward-nakba-as-a-legal-concept-rabea-eghbariah.pdf
God forbid they have to contest the points the author made with a rebuttal rather than just burning their website to the ground along with their credibility. What a load of fucking clowns
It’s a wonder how supposedly educated faculty and alumni can arbitrarily decide to switch off their conscience and go all out dictatorial over an article.
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