Campus Antisemitism
The decision came after SJP was issued a temporary suspension ahead of a planned “Palestine Liberation Week.”
A gun shop owner told Vermont police that the anti-Israel Columbia student told him he built guns “to kill Jews while he was in Palestine,” per the filing.
Antisemitism at both schools is part of an “international effort to bring Hamas’s terror agenda to the United States,” Kenneth L. Marcus told JNS.
The Columbia student led chants of “free Palestine” outside a Vermont courthouse after a district court judge released him from federal custody.
“Harvard’s president said the school will not abide bigotry, yet that’s exactly what the school’s feckless leadership did,” stated Rep. Tim Walberg, chair of the House education panel.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is requesting an explanation of Northwestern’s “apparent failure to protect Jewish students.”
“No institution—no matter its pedigree, prestige or wealth—is above the law,” said the U.S. Department of Education’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights.
“Ignoring antisemitism sends the wrong message to students, faculty and the entire Jewish community as it breeds hostility, fear and division,” Bob Singer, a Jewish state senator, told JNS.
“Our focus is on protecting the safety of our community and ensuring that the university is able to proceed normally with all academic activities,” the university stated.
The move comes one week after the department initiated a similar look into Harvard University.
“The place is a liberal mess, allowing crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake anger and hate,” the U.S. president wrote.
The federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism stated that it was “cautiously encouraged” by Yale’s response and is monitoring the situation.
