Education
“Columbia is in for a reckoning of accountability,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik.
The university’s scheduled student speaker has posted antisemitic content on social media, the End Jew Hatred Movement says.
Teachers’ speech has been “controversial” of late in the “polarized” school district, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“Enough is enough,” Michelle Ahdoot, the group’s director of programming and strategy, told JNS.
Its lawyers offered a range of “tangible steps” that the school had taken to counter Jew-hatred.
“We have an antisemitism talk task force, because everybody on the other side has howled their head off if somebody so much has looked sideways at them,” the professor seems to say as recorded on a hidden camera.
“When antisemitism is allowed to continue unchecked, it is not merely the Jewish people but society as a whole that suffers,” Roz Rothstein, the activist group’s co-founder and CEO, told JNS.
A week beforehand, the gathering received calls for a boycott while a political cartoon invoking an ancient blood libel.
“School leadership must make serious changes to support Jewish communities,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
“The girls spent time sharing traditions, finding that they have much more in common than they realized,” English teacher Samara Wasserman told JNS.
The course included “an all-out assault on Israel, including propaganda from Al Jazeera” and “inflated numbers from the Hamas Health Ministry,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus said.
“In the elevated threat environment that we have seen since Oct. 7, we stand ready to hold perpetrators of hate crimes accountable” said Kristen Clarke, a U.S. assistant attorney general.
