Esmeralda Paredes

2 weeks ago | columbiaspectator.com | Peter Coleman |Esmeralda Paredes

As a Columbia faculty member for 30 years, I have never witnessed our community as fraught and fractured as it is today. In the shadow of the war in Gaza, campus protests and counterprotests have turned toxic. Accusations of antisemitism and Islamophobia hang over us, while the University’s response has pleased no one. Some say Columbia has done too little ; others, too much .