Campus Antisemitism
“Across the research portfolio, we have had to make difficult choices,” Claire Shipman, president of Columbia University, said in a statement.
“Incoming and neutral Harvard students, who haven’t made up their minds on Israel-related issues, see the social cues,” wrote Ira Stoll.
“A reminder that it takes a lot to deter civil terrorism,” stated Tal Fortgang, a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
The Ivy League school “has made a mockery of this country’s higher education system,” Linda McMahon wrote to the Harvard president.
The Republican congresswoman told “Fox News” that the U.S. president is right to seek the removal of Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.
A fourth person, who is a teaching assistant at Cornell University, also was arrested for assaulting a police officer.
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.”
