A 123-year-old magazine criticizing Israel has been shut down in the US

Columbia Law Review website shut down after article critical of Israel
The website of the 123-year-old Columbia Law Review magazine in the USA was closed due to the article written by Palestinian Rabea Egbaria, a graduate student of the Harvard Law Faculty, accusing Israel of genocide. The article's author noted that the site's shutdown should be seen as "a small part of the larger authoritarian crackdown on college campuses across the United States."
The website of the US legal journal Columbia Law Review has been shut down after publishing an article edited by Columbia University students criticizing and accusing Israel of genocide.
The magazine's editors reported that the university's board of directors pressured them to prevent publication of an article about the Nakba by Palestinian Rabea Egbaria, a graduate student at Harvard Law School.
After the article was published, members of Columbia University's board of directors - faculty and alumni of the law school - decided to shut down the journal's website.
The university's board of directors sent a letter to the editors expressing concern that the Nakba as a legal concept and the Law Review articles had not gone through the revision process, specifically that some editors were not aware.
"We have temporarily suspended the journal's website so that the editors can review and resolve the article," the text reads.
Sohum Pal, one of the magazine's editors, said the board decided to shut down the site outright because of the article's content and false claims that the article had not been peer-reviewed.
The article's author noted that the site's shutdown should be seen as "a small part of the larger authoritarian crackdown on college campuses across the United States."
As of Tuesday evening, visitors to the 123-year-old magazine's website were seeing only a blank page saying "Website under construction," according to The New York Times.

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