We had this in the headlines but I think it’s worthy of a longer post. Katherine Franke was until last week the founder and director of Columbia’s Center for Gender & Sexuality Law. Last Friday she announced she’d agreed to resign after an investigation concluded last November that she had violated school policies with her comments about Israeli students.
All of this started in January 2024 when pro-Palestinian Columbia students held an unauthorized gathering on campus. Student counter-protesters sprayed them with something smelly and the claim quickly spread on campus that it was an Israeli chemical agent called Skunk.
Two Columbia University students, both IOF soldiers, sprayed a chemical weapon on peaceful protesters. Skunk spray is used on Palestinians in the West Bank by the Israeli occupation. It is known to cause nausea, abdominal pain, and…
