Kordia was among the pro-Palestinian activists arrested in the spring of 2024 for protesting at Columbia University, the agency added. DHS also shared video footage of Ranjani Srinivasan, who is from India and had been studying for her doctorate at Columbia with a student visa, leaving the country Tuesday after having reported her intention to depart on the Customs and Border Protection app. The State Department had revoked her student visa last week, a DHS announcement said, and the agency accused her of “supporting Hammas [sic], a terrorist organization.” The...

A student protester waves a Palestinian flag above Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. Following a pro-Palestinian protest last year that drew worldwide attention, Columbia University recently announced that it has expelled or suspended students involved in the protest. In a campuswide email on Thursday, the university said that a judicial board has brought a variety of sanctions against students who participated in a building occupation in protest against the war in Gaza last spring, according to The Associated Press. Along...

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring, and had temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated. In a campus-wide email sent Thursday, the university said its judicial board had issued its sanctions against dozens of students who occupied Hamilton Hall based on its “evaluation of the severity of behaviors.” The university did not provide a breakdown of how many students were expelled, suspended or had their degree revoked....