Meet the Columbia Professor Who Canceled Class So Students Could Protest Israel. Plus, Pocahontas’s Campaign Manager Fails Upward.
4th March 2025
Last Wednesday, student radicals at Columbia stormed a campus building at Barnard, sending a security guard to the hospital in the process. A day later, a Columbia instructor canceled class so his students could attend an anti-Israel demonstration, a blatant violation of university policy.
That instructor, our Alana Goodman and Jessica Costescu report, who wasn’t named by the university, was Conor Cullen, who teaches philosophy at Columbia and who has been a vocal supporter of anti-Israel encampments on campus. He dismissed his contemporary civilization class after students asked for time off to “support the student protest movement” and attend an anti-Israel rally. Even Columbia’s administrators described the move as inappropriate and launched an investigation.