Columbia University took down its law website after it sought to publish an article from a Palestinian scholar about the Palestinian Nakba.

The Nakba, or catastrophe, is a term coined by the Syrian Christian intellectual Constantin Zurayk to describe the expulsion of roughly 750,000 Palestinians following the Arab defeat in the Israeli war of independence. Columbia Law Review sought to publish an essay from Palestinian scholar Rabea Eghbariah, titled “The Ongoing Nakba: Towards a Legal Framework for Palestine,” arguing for establishing the Nakba as a legal concept.

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