Columbia University faces full-blown crisis as rabbi calls for Jewish students to ‘return home’ | CNN
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Columbia University is facing a full-blown crisis heading into Passover as a rabbi linked to the Ivy League school urged Jewish students to stay home and tense confrontations on campus sparked condemnation from the White House and New York officials.

The situation at Columbia has even drawn the attention of the White House, joining local leaders in urging calm.

“While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement shared with CNN on Sunday.

  • masquenox@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    1 year ago

    Sooo… where’s the antisemitism these liberal pundits are all getting hysterical about and wants to pretend poses some kind of “antisemitic” threat to Jewish people at this university?

    Oh, right… here it is.

    “Columbia students organizing in solidarity with Palestine – including Jewish students – have faced harassment, doxxing, and now arrest by the NYPD. These are the main threats to the safety of Jewish Columbia students,” Jonathan Ben-Menachem, a PhD student, told CNN.

    Ie, all the antisemitism is coming from the usual sources - the US political establishment, it’s pet media and it’s goon squads.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I do not envy Jewish students right now.

    They have spent their life being told, like I was, from their parents and grandparents that if there is no Israel, the Holocaust would happen again and they personally would be put in a death camp.

    At the same time, they see Israel’s apartheid state and now the genocide it is committing.

    Even though I have been very vocally against both of these things for many years, I still have to headcheck myself sometimes when seeing a rightful criticism of Israel just because I was told for 18 years of my life that Israel was the only thing stopping Nazis from rising up again and killing me.