Bhavana Bellamkonda

“We are asking for the same protections that Columbia students are entitled to under state and federal law, and that Columbia itself has represented that it provides to its tuition-paying students.”

Bhavana Bellamkonda · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-14

Bellamkonda told the Guardian that students are seeking the same protections Columbia is legally required to provide.

“For me, this case is about the environment in which the hostility that I and other pro-Palestinian students experienced was able to persist,”

Bhavana Bellamkonda · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-14

Bellamkonda, another plaintiff, told the Guardian about the hostile environment pro-Palestinian students faced at Columbia.

“What we are asking for is not special treatment,”

Bhavana Bellamkonda · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-14

Bellamkonda told the Guardian that students are seeking standard legal protections rather than special treatment.