Protesters demonstrate in front of police along the perimeter of the Columbia University campus in New York City, on April 30, 2024. Photo: Melissa Bender/NurPhoto via AP Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on Gaza. In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia Gaza solidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walkout from classes and hold a...