Campus Antisemitism
“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.
The school “has been complicit, offering an ‘internet-optional’ university that only those it can’t protect have to use.”
Anti-Israel mob barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall, staff member briefly held against his will.
“It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide,’” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted.
Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion, lamented what she said was confusion between hate speech, incitement and what is “basically a different view of the situation in Israel”
“Hitler, Hitler go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” more than 100 demonstrators chanted at George Washington University on Friday.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) asked pressing questions of the university’s interim president with a deadline of May 6.
