Columbia University and Harvard University both saw some of the most fiery anti-Israel protests at the end of the last school year, and a new report ranks them as the worst colleges for free speech.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a First Amendment advocacy group, and College Pulse released its 2025 college free speech rankings, as students return to campus for the new school year. The rankings were compiled with 58,000 student responses, from more than 250 colleges across the country, according to FIRE.

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