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Earlier this year, three Columbia University deans sat during a panel on the experiences of Jewish students with campus antisemitism and texted mocking messages to each other.
Their interactions become all the more vile in light of the newly released report about the experiences of Jewish students at Columbia.
Here are some samples.
One student who had moved into her dorm room in September, told us she placed a mezuzah on her doorway as required by ritual law, as traditional Jews have done for centuries. In October, people began banging on her door at all hours of the night, demanding she explain Israel’s actions. She was forced to move out of the dorm.
Jewish students heard from one of the protesters right outside Columbia’s gates, “October seventh [2024] is going to be every day for you.” Students reported being told “Kill your fucking self. And I’ll fucking kill you.”
Visibly observant students, like ones who wear traditional head coverings, have been frequently met with extreme hostility. “On campus, my friends have been spit on, been called like terrible, terrible names, a very close friend of mine was called, a lover of genocide and then a lover of baby killing. This was only a couple of days after October seventh.” A student told us she had been chased off campus with her brother one night.
Students have reported having necklaces ripped off their necks and being pinned against walls, while walking back to their dorms on Friday afternoon and when they were on their way to synagogue. There were also multiple reports of visibly Jewish individuals simply walking past 116th Street who have been followed, stalked, and subjected to ethnic slurs and hateful statements, like “go back to Poland” and “I hope you guys suffer.”
A student told us that “Since October, most people on campus have felt apprehension. Then this Thursday we were walking onto campus. We weren’t wearing any symbols of Judaism. We were shouted at, ‘We don’t want no Zionists here.’ They were wearing keffiyehs and shoving us. No one is doing anything.…
One student explained that they were hesitant to attend Shabbat dinner lest their peers assume that they are Zionists who may “believe in genocide.”
The founder of an LGBTQ+ group sought to exclude Zionists from the group’s events in a flier that read “It’s FREE PALESTINE over here. Zionists aren’t invited.” The founder defended this stance in an email that evinced the slippage between anti-Zionism and antisemitism: “white Jewish people are today and always have been the oppressors of all brown people,” and “the Holocaust wasn’t special.”
One Israeli student reported that when she went to health services in July, no one came in to see her and she overheard a discussion between two healthcare professionals in another room in which one said they would not treat her because she was Israeli.
The first thing that I would like to bring up is student organizations hosting “Vigils,” labeled as “Glory to our Martyrs.” Some of the things said during these events are directly linked to Hamas verbiage, and I do not believe these are actual vigils. That language is not reflective of a vigil and it is violent. It feels like the promotion of death and hate.”
Students told us about chants such as, “Al-Qassam you make us proud, kill another soldier now,” “Yes Hamas, we love you, we support your rockets too,” or “We say justice you say how, burn Tel Aviv to the ground.”
There’s been very little discussion about this.
Leftist political groups and the media have colluded to turn the Hamas supporters into the victims after they got arrested when their harassment went too far. Columbia University leaders chose to publicly dismiss and privately sneer at Jewish students.
These are not accidents.
We are living in a country where two-tier justice and moral systems are becoming the norm. And that means the Left and its political allies are allowed to do anything that they want.
Harris can only say, ” Hey you Jews, don’t be Islamophobic!”
Trump is right. American Jews who consider voting for Harris really do need to have their heads examined!
I consider your last sentence an extension of anti-Semitism. Why bother to say that. Reread the article and address the aggressors not the victims. I do not know any Jewish Democrat voters as i have said time and time agin. But there are some. So perhaps they hope to appease the aggressors and avoid people like you who are obsessed with them and their habits.
Daniel’s last paragraph is entirely truthful (as are his other observations). The evidence to back it up is overwhelming. Some people will continue to be apologists and fellow travelers for the leftists and jihadis who are the ones obsessed with the Jews and western society (and their destruction). The Red-Green alliance is a real thing, and has been for a very long time. Too many people can’t handle that truth.
Some people commenting on the voting habits of Jews are anti-Semites. However, it is also true that Jews in America developed their voting habits in urban areas with Democrat political power. It is clear that Democrats have become increasingly anti-Semitic, which is in line with their increasingly discriminatory policies under the rubric of civil rights which negates individualism. William F. Buckley started chasing anti-Semites out of the right seventy years ago. It is more necessary than ever for Jews to revise their voting behavior. The Democrats are getting that across to them and other groups. This election will show changes.
Agreed. It’s the same as the “You ain’t black” from Joe Biden. Don’t every insult people you want to change their mind and vote for you. It’ as stupid as the whole “basket of deplorables” thing politically.
So why do those Ham-A** Cowards always hide their faces like they do what are they afraid of? God knows their faces
YOu know, I find this comment, made very often, to be beyond ridiculous and highly irritating..
They cover their faces so they won’t be identified.
Is it that hard to understand!
In addition, it is done to intimidates people.
I’d like to see those pussies try that shit with me. I’m old but I would beat them senseless.
I haven’t seen any here in San Jose yet but I figure it’s just a matter of time. I’ll be ready to whip their asses. I look forward to it. I hate loud mouthed weaklings.
Better wear strong boots and carry bear spray. Their violence is inevitable, they will attack you and police will do nothing.
I have strong shoes. I wear them whenever I think I might have trouble, which is pretty much every time I use the light rail here in San Jose. Two pairs of work shoes and I don’t care how much blood I get on them.
I just love the projection – “lover of genocide” and “lover of baby killing”.
What the fakestinians want to do, and have repeatedly stated ever since the end of WWII, is complete Hitler’s Final Solution, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Arafat’s uncle no less, even offered to finish it off it Hitler would send all of Europe’s remaining Jews over to them when he won WWII.
As for baby killing, it’s the left that had been responsible for somewhere in the vicinity of 75 million abortions in the USA since 1972, that’s a higher kill rate per year than the Nazis managed in their 12 years in power in Germany.
Arabs were the undefeated allies of Hitler. Scientists and politicians fled from Germany to Egypt and Syria. Arafat called Amin al-Husseini his uncle as an honorific for a cousin a generation older.
It’s definitely the fault of the KKK and the pro-Trump anti-Semitic white supremacists. I don’t see any other possibility.
All the settlements need to be thought of as forts, fortified against nomadic raiders, as in olden days.
Similarly, the Democrats have let millions of nomadic raiders into the country.
Daniel, way past the time to bring back the JDL, sadly if Jews won’t stand up and protect Jews who will?
The JDL still exists but it’s been taken over by left-wing scum, who like viruses, infect everything.
The University administrator’s have no problem with actively allowing Jewish students to be subjected to hate and violence because they believe they deserve it. Nothing has changed for the Jews all through history.
Unfortunately, that seems true. Even though Jews tend to be high performers, I pity them. The irrational hatred they’e subjected to must be very tough to bear.
I blame the islamopithecines. They’re behind the current Jew hatred. They’re the most evil and despicable “people” on Earth.
It can’t be said enough times: Savages only understand the language of force.
The islamic terrorists in the US need to be given a very heavy dose of their own medicine.
Jewish students – and all others who are decent people – should carry pepper or bear spray at the very least
I heard that bear spray is pretty fierce. Some of my girls carrry stuff like that in their purses. I think they’re wise to do so. If I had a purse, I’d probably carry some too. Maybe I should get a Jerry Seinfeld man-bag.
I live in Maryland. According to The Times of Israel, Students for Justice in Palestine are planning some sort of demonstration (more like a celebration is my guess) at the University of Maryland to take place on October 7, 2024. These people are disgusting
The situation is ridiculous for Jewish/Israeli students. Who says they have to, or should, put up with this highly organized and heavily financed anti-Semitism pro-Hamas Hezbollah Houthi Terrorism on campuses with no pushback from this administration.
I could not be a student at a university that allows this hatred. It’s a mistake for students and parents to pour money into these thoroughly corrupt, untrustworthy places. Take your talents elsewhere. It’ll be the university’s loss. The boards of ‘trustees’ (ironic use of the word) should be prosecuted and heavily fined for defying anti-hate laws, hiring discriminating staff, not using law enforcement and intentionally putting Jewish students in danger.
America is at a crossroads and is deep in an identity crisis. Summer ‘vacation’ is over; and the post October 7th ramped up hatred of Jews, unabashedly targeted and being set up to take the fall for America’s problems, will continue.
There’s already been one round of campus hatred to get a lot of Americans used to the idea. More to come.
More testing the limits.
Like the Nazis.
I’m pretty sure David Horowitz was sounding the warning bell on this decades ago.