A Columbia Law Review article that argues Jews “capitalized on the Holocaust to create a powerful narrative that monopolizes victimhood” was subject to an atypical editing process that omitted “a large number of Jewish students,” according to sources familiar with the process.
While prospective pieces are typically available for the Law Review‘s roughly 100 members to assess ahead of publication, the “Nakba” piece was handled behind closed doors by a group of roughly 30 student editors, according to Columbia Law School professor Joshua Mitts.
While that group edited the piece “over several months,” Mitts said, other editors—including Jews—were unaware even of the piece’s existence until Saturday, just two days before its publication.
The piece—titled, “Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept”—was supposed to be published on the website of the student-edited Review on Monday, despite a request from the Review‘s board of…
