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A woman participates in a rally at Columbia University in support of Israel in response to a neighboring student rally in support of Palestine at the university on October 12, 2023 in New York City.

Columbia University declined to comment to Jewish Insider after 144 members of its faculty signed an open letter on Saturday that called Israel an apartheid state while referring to Hamas’ terrorist attacks as a legitimate “military action.”

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