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submitted 5 months ago by dank@lemmy.today to c/news@lemmy.world

Student editors at the Columbia Law Review say they were pressured by the journal’s board of directors to halt publication of an academic article written by a Palestinian human rights lawyer that accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and upholding an apartheid regime.

When the editors refused the request and published the piece on Monday morning, the board – composed of faculty and alumni from Columbia University’s law school – shut down the law review’s website entirely. It remained offline on Tuesday evening, a static homepage informing visitors the domain “is under maintenance”.

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[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago

This article from Democracy Now interviews Rabea Eghbariah, the lawyer that wrote it, and has the entire censored article embedded:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/5/harvard_columbia_law_school_nakba_censorship

Direct link to censored article (pdf):
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24733670/toward-nakba-as-a-legal-concept-rabea-eghbariah.pdf

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the links!

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

God forbid they have to contest the points the author made with a rebuttal rather than just burning their website to the ground along with their credibility. What a load of fucking clowns

[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

Excellently stated - thank you.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago

It's a wonder how supposedly educated faculty and alumni can arbitrarily decide to switch off their conscience and go all out dictatorial over an article.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/

Overall, we rate The Guardian Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks over the last five years.

Detailed Report

Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: United Kingdom Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Newspaper Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

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