Tag: Columbia University
In line to enter campus, Columbia students endure anti-Israel activists
With the start of the new academic year at Columbia University in New York City, visitors needed to pass through security while dozens of demonstrators yelled slogans opposing the school and the Jewish state.
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Ramaz School graduates not headed to Columbia University this fall
Not a single graduate of the Ramaz School, a Jewish college-prep institution in New York City, will head to Columbia University this academic year—something that hasn’t happened in decades.
“For the first time in over 20 years,...
Foxx: Columbia provided criminal protesters a ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’
Columbia University in New York City continues to come in for criticism on charges that it has failed to adequately address an increasingly hostile environment for Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus.
The House’s Education...
Columbia removes three deans who mocked campus Jew-hatred event
Columbia University announced on Monday that it “permanently removed” three senior administrators who mocked concerns about Jew-hatred on campus.
Minouche Shafik, the Ivy League school’s president, wrote that the text message exchanges were “very troubling.”
“This...
Political inaction fuels rising antisemitism
As second gentleman Douglas Emhoff joined the groundbreaking ceremony for the Tree of Life Synagogue memorial in Pittsburgh, his presence highlighted a stark contradiction: While government officials pay lip service to combating antisemitism, their...
In our name: A message from Jewish students at Columbia University
To the Columbia Community:
Over the past six months, many have spoken in our name. Some are well-meaning alumni or non-affiliates who show up to wave the Israeli flag outside Columbia’s gates. Some are politicians...
Yom Hashoah event at Columbia University part remembrance, part rally
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, generally focuses only on the slaughter of 6 million Jews without comparing it to anything else.
But a memorial ceremony marking the day on Monday in New York City near...
NYU: Over half arrested for anti-Israel riots not tied to school
Less than half of the pro-Hamas protesters arrested at New York University last week after refusing to vacate the campus were members of the academic institution, the university said on Wednesday.
Of the 133 protesters...
ADL to Rep. Ilhan Omar: Apologize for ‘blood libel’
The head of the Anti-Defamation League on Saturday called on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to apologize after she accused some Jewish students of being “pro-genocide” in a statement on antisemitism.
“It is patently false and...
‘What I said was wrong,’ says Columbia protest leader who said Zionists don’t deserve...
A Columbia University student and a leader of the antisemitic protests on campus is seeking to provide “context” to a statement he made that Zionists don’t deserve to live.
“Zionists don’t deserve to live,” Khymani James said....