Campus Antisemitism
The representative from Nebraska wrote on X that “calling these students ‘pro-genocide’ is despicable.”
The ADL, StandWithUs, the Brandeis Center and the ZOA blasted the administration’s capitulation to anti-Israel student activists.
“If moral clarity does not prevail—in the ivory tower and in the Biden administration—this could go down as a particularly shameful moment in our history,” the Senate minority leader said.
“College is not a park for play-acting juveniles,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx, chair of the Education and Workforce Committee.
Almost 60% of survey respondents at the elite university counter that the school suffers from systemic antisemitism.
As police hauled away protesters, one man yelled, “You are Hitler! You are rabid dogs! You are fascists! Shame on You!”
“Denying students access to areas of campus because they are Jewish is discrimination,” said Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.).
“Now that American students are under siege, this is the right policy at the right time to give Jewish students a safe space,” says Inbal Ratz-Gilmore of the Kohelet Policy Forum.
There were reports of injuries amid violent confrontations between Israel supporters and the pro-Hamas encampment.
Following increasingly violent, disorderly and antisemitic protests, Columbia leadership said that the events “have left us no choice.”
“Smashing windows with hammers and taking over university buildings is not free speech,” the Senate majority leader said earlier in the day.
Video shows a Jewish student being refused entry to the library.
