Campus Antisemitism
Liz Magill had testified before a House committee that it wouldn’t necessarily violate the Ivy League school’s policies to call for genocide against all Jews.
“This current worldwide campaign to support Israel will start most likely from a high school or university on the East Coast, possibly Manhattan. And you are the people who could do it,” he tells JNS.
A protest that began at Columbia University has now spread elsewhere.
Ross Stevens, founder and CEO of Stone Ridge Asset Management, informed the University of Pennsylvania that he was only willing to discuss the matter under a new president at the school.
“Calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country,” a White House spokesman said. The president did not comment directly.
The event on “Race, Liberation and Palestine” includes Marc Lamont Hill and Nick Estes, who both have histories of antisemitism.
As students spoke of antisemitism and university presidents testified about Jew-hatred on campus in Washington, a peaceful, interfaith event took place in the City of Bridges.
“Places that are supposed to be a moral beacon have become a breeding ground for hatred,” Israel’s foreign minister says.
“Your institution is clearly producing students who are sympathetic to a terrorist organization,” said Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.). “Don’t you think that’s a misuse of taxpayer dollars?”
Following the suspension of SJP and JVP chapters, demonstrations in support of the war to destroy the Jewish state are in the works to continue.
Antisemitism roundup, Dec. 2
“Their messaging tends to become a way to get other people to hate Jews,” said Michael Beim, president of JNF’s board of directors in Orlando, Fla.
