A letter from faculty opposing the center in Israel received 95 signatures while a letter in support of the center and the university's 'global' reputation received 171 signatures.
The letter received 95 faculty signatures, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. The letter also highlights concerns that"substantial concern about the power of donor money to direct major decisions, such as the establishment of this Global Center in Tel Aviv, in lieu of consultation with the faculty," but does not provide any examples.
"We are particularly concerned that Columbia University would take the bold step of opening a Global Center in Tel Aviv at this particular moment, with the newly seated government that is widely, if not almost universally, regarded as the most conservative, reactionary, right-wing government in Israel’s history," the letter reads.
IVY LEAGUE PROFS TURN ON EACH OTHER AFTER COLUMBIA ECONOMIST CLAIMS UKRAINE WAR COULD BE ‘NEXT AFGHANISTAN’ An election campaign poster for far-right Otzma Yehudit , with images of party leader Itamar Ben-Gvir behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party leader, on Feb. 25, 2020, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
"For Columbia to preemptively invest in a new Global Center in Israel at the very moment when the domestic and international community is pulling away as part of a concerted and vehement objection to the new government’s policies would render Columbia not only an outlier, but a collaborator in those very policies."
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