Columbia has agreed to pay a $200 million settlement to the Trump administration, which accused the university of failing to protect Jewish students during campus protests against Israel’s assault on Gaza. Columbia will also pay $21 million to settle investigations brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, by agreeing to end the consideration of race in admissions and hiring. The settlements will restore hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of canceled or frozen grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services. As part of the deal, Columbia commits to appointing a senior provost to oversee the Middle Eastern studies department, will further crack down on campus protests and will appoint three dozen new security officers with arrest powers. The settlement was announced a day after Columbia informed nearly 80 students that they had been suspended for one to three years — or expelled — for participating in campus antiwar protests.

On Tuesday, one of the suspended students spoke to Democracy Now! They requested to remain anonymous out of fear of doxxing and further retaliation.

Suspended Columbia student: “While the sanctions came suddenly, the results were, frankly, not a surprise. After nearly two years of organizing under a fascist university wholly supporting and funding the genocide of the Palestinian people, we are really under no illusions about Columbia’s intentions or function as a killing machine in Harlem and Palestine. There is no honor in being part of Columbia’s genocidal mission, and I am not and will not ever be ashamed for being suspended for protesting for the liberation of Palestine and the liberation of us all.”