Campus Antisemitism
“I am deeply proud of all we have accomplished together,” wrote the academic leader, who led the administration for seven years.
The Florida senator called for “expedited deportation proceedings.”
“Judaism cannot be separated from Israel,” the students wrote. “Zionism is, simply put, the manifestation of that belief.”
Florida’s governor and the University of Florida’s president spoke out against the hate visible at academic institutions nationwide.
An open letter to the Columbia community from Jewish students.
University president Jay Bernhardt said protesters would not face disciplinary hearings and sent staff to bail them out after they were arrested.
“The American people, and especially our Jewish brothers and sisters, deserve our moral clarity on this issue,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.
The university said it acted to meet the demands of anti-Israel protesters who have occupied its campus.
The voiceover calls on activists to “bring your passion. Your tenacity. Your anger. But don’t bring hate to the protest.”
“We have lost confidence in Columbia as an institution of higher education,” the judges said. “Columbia has instead become an incubator of bigotry.”
“We cannot accept statements like ‘Israel is an apartheid state’ or ‘Israel is an occupying state.’”
“The perpetrators of antisemitism on Columbia’s campus have not been disciplined,” two business professors at the university told JNS.
