From the Editor's Desk

The Unreality of Columbia’s ‘Liberated Zone’

What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?Yesterday just before midnight, word goes out, tent to tent, student protester to student protester—a viral warning: Intruders have entered the "liberated zone," that swath of manicured grass where hundreds of students and their supporters at what they fancy as the People's University for Palestine sit around tents and conduct workshops about demilitarizing education and fighting settler colonialism and genocide. In this liberated zone, normally known as South Lawn West on the Columbia University quad, unsympathetic outsiders are treated as a danger.


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