Campus Antisemitism
The Ivy League school has allowed “antisemitic discrimination to persist unchecked on its campus,” the U.S. education secretary stated.
“Instead of offering real solutions, they propose vague, universalist ‘restorative practices’ to ‘create safe spaces,’” the organizations stated.
Carly Gammill of StandWithUs said the end result reflects “Barnard’s commitment to ensuring equal treatment for its Jewish students.”
This “serves as yet another example of how hostile campuses have become for Jewish faculty and students,” Samantha Joseph, of the ADL, told JNS.
A senior faculty member at the University of Limerick was filmed clutching a student aggressively at an anti-Israel event.
“Boycotts against Israel are divisive to the campus community,” Roz Rothstein, CEO of StandWithUs, told JNS.
“The antisemitic climate at Concord-Carlisle did not emerge overnight. It was allowed to take root and persist,” stated Samantha Joseph of the ADL.
Claire Shipman, the school’s acting president, said the statements were wrong and “do not reflect how I feel.”
Claire Shipman’s messages “cannot be explained by ‘taken out of context,’” Ari Shrage, co-founder of the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, told JNS.
The House education panel sought “clarity” from Claire Shipman over “messages you sent that appear to downplay and even mock the pervasive culture of antisemitism on Columbia’s campus.”
“Antisemitism has no place in Iowa,” said Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.
“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately,” the federal body said, will “continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government.”
