Campus Antisemitism
“What’s deeply disturbing is that people you would expect to offer a more nuanced perspective are resorting to overly simplistic analyses,” Yifat Bitton told JNS.
“[America] should not be honored for the horrors unleashed on others. Instead, we will celebrate those martyred by the Israel-U.S. war machine.”
“I offer our deep appreciation of Carol Folt, as well as our admiration for her exceptional tenure,” stated Suzanne Nora Johnson, chair of the school’s Board of Trustees.
“The university is actively working with the Chicago Police Department to investigate this incident so that they can determine whether to classify it as a hate crime,” stated the school’s president, Robert Manuel.
A Columbia student told JNS that Jews currently feel safe on campus, but “to be lulled into a false sense of security is very dangerous.”
“Class will proceed as usual today, except that classroom quizzes will not be for credit,” a Harvard professor wrote to students. “Feel free to take time off if needed.”
The Brandeis Center, which is suing the university, called the decision a “huge win for Jewish students.”
Earlier estimates of the price tag of “campus occupation” spoke of $1.7 million
The Senate majority leader’s staff told administrators at the university to “keep their heads down,” Columbia’s then president wrote to fellow university leaders.
“We are full of pride. We are really, really full of joy of what happened,” the student is on record saying.
“The court finds the incorporation of this specific definition of antisemitism is viewpoint discrimination,” a federal district court judge ruled.
A report from the school’s antisemitism task force has prompted pushback.
