🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION: As Columbia University ramped up its crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters over the past three years, the Ivy League institution was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to pro-Israel groups, according to a review of tax filings. Recipients of the cash included AIPAC's charity arm, the Israel on Campus Coalition, and others. 👉 Though the university gave in smaller amounts to pro-Israel groups before October 7, 2023, the spending ramped up in that fiscal year as the genocide in Gaza unfolded and students at Columbia led the way in a national campus protest movement against it. 👉 In the fiscal year ending in June 2024, Columbia paid $100,000 to the Israel on Campus Coalition and another $75,000 to AIPAC affiliate American Israel Education Foundation. In the same period, the Columbia administration summarily suspended the pro-Palestine student groups Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine, quashed the encampments in solidarity with Gaza, and called on the NYPD to arrest pro-Palestine protesters on campus on two separate occasions. 👉 Over the past decade, Columbia has paid AIPAC’s charity arm $250,000, with another $75,000 payment in the fiscal year ending in June 2023 and a $100,000 payment in the one ending in June 2017. 👉 In the fiscal year ending in June 2025, Columbia paid $7,200 to the Anti-Defamation League for “program services.” In the same period, the ADL welcomed the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a lead Columbia protest negotiator, by federal immigration officials. Reporting with @mhanzlikbarend for @theintercept Read the full investigation here: theintercept.com/2026/09/14/…