Interview with Katherine Franke, an ex-Columbia professor familiar with Mahmoud Khalil.
The details make the university look even worse.
She speculates (without proof) that ‘pro-Israel’ (i.e. Likud or further right) faculty are helping the Trump admin write the demands on themselves.
But even based on public knowledge it was never just surrender in advance; it’s been a collaboration from the start.
Franke was ‘retired’ by the university for pointing out that Israeli students, straight out military service in Gaza, were harassing and even assaulting her Palestinian students, and this was a growing problem.
The university judged this was discriminatory; and collaborated in slandering Khalil, leading to him getting disappeared.