Columbia Law Review Site Taken Down Over Article Accusing Israel of Genocide

The website for the Columbia Law Review was taken down Monday by its board of directors after editors published a lengthy article by a Palestinian human rights lawyer accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.

The journal’s student editors say the board—which consists of faculty and alumni from Columbia University’s law school—had pressured them to delay publication of the piece. When the editors decided to publish anyway, the site was shut down.

As of early Wednesday, the homepage for the site only displays a message saying: “Website is under maintenance.”

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