The forces that have attempted to punish Columbia students for advocating for Palestinian rights keep losing in court.
As we reported last week, Columbia University was forced to nullify its expulsions, suspensions, and degree revocations of students it said occupied Hamilton Hall as part of a 2024 protest, after a court determined that the university had violated its own rules, as well as state law, in handing out the punishments.
Now, a state court has ruled that a defamation lawsuit can go forward against a group that made websites in Columbia students' names identifying each of them as "Columbia's Leading Antisemite," drove mobile billboard trucks with their pictures and the same epithet around their campus and past their homes, and urged people to "tell the Columbia Board of Trustees to take action against these despicable, hateful students."