Campus Antisemitism
“It’s time for the government to send in the National Guard, so the students who paid $70,000 for an education can simply go to class,” Ari Shrage, head of Columbia’s Jewish Alumni Association, told JNS.
“We must not allow the actions of a few interfere with our mission,” said Laura Rosenbury, the college president.
Helyeh Doutaghi was placed on administrative leave, according to Alden Ferro, a spokesman for the university in New Haven, Conn.
“Disrupting classes and defacing buildings to intimidate and divide our community is not academic exploration,” Laura Rosenbury, the college’s president, wrote in an op-ed.
“Strong statements are not enough,” the chairman of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy tells JNS.
“It’s a crisis threatening the safety and dignity of Jewish students,” Jacob Baime, CEO of ICC, told JNS.
“Antisemitism, like racism, is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues,” said the U.S. secretary of health and human services.
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) said these efforts “bring much-needed attention to the plight of Jewish students across our country.”
“There’s nothing that gets a university president’s attention like a call from the Justice Department,” Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
He posted a photo of a campus pro-Israel demonstration on Holocaust Remembrance Day with the caption, “Can somebody shoot this s**t up?”
A U.S. District Court judge wrote that the plaintiffs “graduated from Harvard many years before the central events referred to in the complaint.”
The NYPD told JNS that it had a report on file of an assault, but that there were no arrests amid an ongoing investigation.
