Columbia University forced law professor Katherine Franke to retire after being part of its faculty for twenty-five years. Her pro-Palestinian speech was deemed in violation of Columbia's Division of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policies and Procedures, revealing the irony of the uses of DEI.

XREF: Connects to broader debates about the limits of DEI initiatives and how institutional anti-discrimination frameworks can be turned against marginalized perspectives. Builds on: "DEI parity framing obscures asymmetric power dynamics in campus conflicts"

Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophob…, loc. 23