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The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

US professors face discipline and investigations over Palestine support

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Columbia faculty members protect students in the pro-Palestinian Gaza solidarity encampment in New York on 29 April 2024. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Getty Images

Several professors at universities around the US are facing disciplinary actions in regard to their support for the pro-Palestine movement and their students holding protests on college campuses.

At Columbia University, Katherine Franke, law professor and the director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, is currently under investigation at the school over an interview she gave early this year. Last week, she announced she had filed a complaint against a law firm she retained after it dropped her as a client.

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