Columbia University in New York City on 31 October 2023. In a sign of the escalating tensions at Columbia University over the war in Israel and Gaza, more than 220 faculty members have already signed an open letter lambasting their colleagues for appearing to condone Hamas’s bloody assault on innocent civilians. The University has a large Jewish student population, and has emerged as a key battleground in the friction that has erupted throughout U.S. campuses since October 7