Campus Antisemitism
The university in the Boston area said it was disappointed by and rejected a student government vote to divest from Israel.
They all face charges of discrimination; at one school, “globalize the intifada” was projected onto a building by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said many of the 2,500 pages that the university turned over to the committee are duplicates; others are heavily redacted.
Talia Khan, a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said “in the past five months, I have become traumatized.”
The investigation took nearly a year before pointing to Hayden Pritchard, 22, and Sergio Delgado, 21, both lance corporals.
“Berkeley has students who are Hamas supporters and who flagrantly call for the destruction of Jews. Why were campus police not empowered to control this violent mob?” said Masha Merkulova, of Club Z.
“The eruption of antisemitism in Berkeley’s elementary and high schools is like nothing I’ve ever seen before,” said Kenneth Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center.
“There are students who have been spat upon, shoved, that have called horrible names, antisemitic slurs,” recounted lawyer Joel Nied.
“This is what Palestinians are calling for as the most effective means of solidarity,” said the BDS national committee.
Columbia University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine responded that it “sets a dangerous precedent.”
The publication filed a complaint alleging that the public research university failed to take “concrete steps” to protect Jews.
Raffaella Sadun officially said she is “grateful to have had the opportunity to help advance the vital work to combat antisemitism.”
