Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT

“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.

Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the Israel-Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.

Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal

Rashid Khalidi, in open letter published by the Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement

^{Dani Anguiano (The Guardian)}