Antisemitism
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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.
“What’s very concerning about these hearings is that we’re getting lip service but a lack of enforcement, a lack of accountability,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik.
“The American people, and especially our Jewish brothers and sisters, deserve our moral clarity on this issue,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said.
Proclaiming Justice to the Nations is presenting its findings on antisemitism to the House Education and Workforce Committee.
As to why there seems to be a flurry of Holocaust films out right now, one director said it may be due to a delay from the COVID pandemic when some held their projects back.
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.”
The platform took action after Elchanan Groner’s tweet referencing Lord Moyne, a British official assassinated in 1944, was mistranslated.
“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.
