Antisemitism
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University president Jay Bernhardt said protesters would not face disciplinary hearings and sent staff to bail them out after they were arrested.
“What’s very concerning about these hearings is that we’re getting lip service but a lack of enforcement, a lack of accountability,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Proclaiming Justice to the Nations is presenting its findings on antisemitism to the House Education and Workforce Committee.
The university said it acted to meet the demands of anti-Israel protesters who have occupied its campus.
The voiceover calls on activists to “bring your passion. Your tenacity. Your anger. But don’t bring hate to the protest.”
“We have lost confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education,” the judges said. “Columbia has instead become an incubator of bigotry.”
“The perpetrators of antisemitism on Columbia’s campus have not been disciplined,” two business professors at the university told JNS.
The U.S. education secretary wrote that he is “deeply concerned” about “repeated reports of antisemitic and anti-Israeli, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian harassment on our campuses and in our communities.”
“President Biden is taking additional strong, decisive action today to fight the rise of antisemitism in America and protect Jewish students,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Calif., is hearing oral arguments in “Loffman v. California Department of Education.”
“Swastikas, death threats and Hitler glorification are all a result of a failure to properly educate our youth, and we must assign consequences to bad actors,” says a city council member.
Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) says more resources would “greatly boost our efforts to combat this evil whenever and wherever it rears its ugly head.”
