Hawzah News Agency- The Jewish foundation halted its donations to Columbia in late April, three months after warning in an email that its continuing financial support would depend on the university administrators taking adequate action against the protesters.

It has reportedly given the Ivy League university a total of around $86 million over the years. With the current decision, a scheduled transfer of more than $600,000 and all future donations to Columbia will be suspended.

The protests spread across US universities against the Washington’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes accounting to a clear-cut case of genocide, was met with a heavy police crackdown.

Since the first mass arrests at Columbia on April 18, at least 2,600 demonstrators have been detained at more than 100 protests in 39 states and Washington, D.C., according to The Appeal, a nonprofit news organization.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 34,904 Palestinians have been killed, and 78,514 injured in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.

Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

According to Palestinian and international organizations, the majority of those killed and injured are women and children.