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"I salute and admire the courage of all student protestors — especially my friends still up at Columbia, who are now battling expulsion and suspension for their conscientious stand against Columbia’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Gaza.”.

"This is just the latest example of Columbia University capitulating to the Trump administration.".

"Columbia failed to protect me and so many of my peers, emboldened dangerous anti-Palestinian racist rhetoric, thrown its principles of academic freedom under the bus.".

CONTINUED: "I still haven’t heard a word from Columbia, despite spending 104 days in ICE detention and missing the birth of my son.".

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“Eliminating the Negotiations Support Unit, which houses that expertise . ultimately makes the American people — whether at home or abroad — less safe,” Jacobs told @RealCrookedNews. “I will keep fighting for this unit and CSO’s vital functions to be codified in law.”.

Any administration needs people with a deep knowledge of history and technical expertise for the most complicated foreign policy issues, said @RepSaraJacobs, who introduced a bill last year to make the unit permanent.

“Now, there’s no number to call,” the person told me. “Say we need a ceasefire drafted. How do we create a back channel for negotiations? How do we quietly start talks? How do we set the agenda, set the table, for convening a talk? How do we make our first offer?".

These people were on-demand experts that Trump’s officials could call if they had questions. They were essentially in-house expert consultants with security clearances. They had decades of combined experience and connections, and could offer advice on complex topics on a dime.

Without the Negotiations Support Unit, “easily avoidable mistakes will be made,” one person with knowledge of the team’s work told me.

The unit proved critical during the Biden administration, working on peace talks amid Sudan’s civil war, supporting negotiations in Yemen with Houthis rebels, and securing a ceasefire between Ethiopia and Tigray in 2022.

Those included: Lifting sanctions on Syria’s transition government. Handling fraught negotiations between Russia and Ukraine toward an elusive ceasefire. Helping to create the next transition government in Haiti.

The unit was housed in the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, which was eliminated. This little team punched far above its weight. Its résumé includes work on Trump’s top issues:.

“These were the top experts on peace negotiations in the world,” a longtime foreign service officer, who was recently fired, told @RealCrookedNews. “They are experts in writing treaties, truces, ceasefires, and new constitutions — and they’ve done it all over the world.”.

And there is a good chance Trump may come to regret decimating the State Department’s diplomatic corps. That includes an obscure four-person team that helped secure the administration’s biggest wins to date, known as the Negotiations Support Unit.