{"id":80707,"date":"2026-02-21T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80707"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T13:45:47","slug":"columbia-punishing-graduating-class-for-anti-israel-protests-by-moving-ceremony-students-claim-so-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/columbia-punishing-graduating-class-for-anti-israel-protests-by-moving-ceremony-students-claim-so-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia \u2018Punishing\u2019 Graduating Class For Anti-Israel Protests By Moving Ceremony, Students Claim: \u2018So Evil\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> New York Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s tassel is causing a hassle.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia University is moving its graduation from the Ivy League school\u2019s campus to its uptown football stadium \u2014 prompting a group of angry students to claim the switch to the \u201cforeign\u201d\u00a0location\u00a0is\u00a0 \u201cpunishment\u201d for years of controversial pro-Palestinian and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/15\/us-news\/columbia-students-faculty-blast-university-for-promoting-border-patrol-recruitment-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">anti-ICE protests<\/a>.\u00a0 The school\u2019s graduating class is desperately trying to reverse the decision to host the ceremony at the\u00a0Robert K. Kraft Field at the\u00a0Baker Athletics Complex in Inwood \u2014 a move the class of 2026 has slammed as \u201cevil.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1771663547\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Columbia \u2018Punishing\u2019 Graduating Class For Anti-Israel Protests By Moving Ceremony, Students Claim: \u2018So Evil\u2019\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From New York Post: This year\u2019s tassel is causing a hassle. Columbia University is moving its graduation from the Ivy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}