The response to the Hamas terror attacks on Israel at Columbia University has been so awful that a professor has spoken out and a billionaire donor is pulling his support.
Now, to make matters worse, some professors have signed a letter calling the attacks a ‘military action’ and defending the students who have shown support for Hamas.
The Algemeiner reports:
Columbia University Professors Claim Hamas Massacre Can Be Seen as ‘Military Action’A letter signed by over 75 professors at Columbia University in New York City defended the claim that the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 can be viewed as a “military action” that must be put “within the larger context of the occupation of Palestine by Israel.”The new letter, titled “Grave Concerns About the Well-Being of Our Students,” sought to defend an earlier statement from students that said “if every political avenue available to Palestinians is blocked, we should not be surprised when resistance and violence break out.”The letter expressed concern that pro-Palestinian students at Columbia have been “viciously targeted with doxing, public shaming, surveillance by members of our community, including other students, and reprisals from employers.”“In our view, the student statement aims to recontextualize the events of Oct. 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years,” the professors’ statement continued. “One could regard the events of Oct. 7 as just one salvo in an ongoing war between an occupying state and the people it occupies, or as an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation.”The statement also appeared to defend the students’ calls for Columbia to cancel all academic partnerships with Israeli institutions and the false description of Israel as an “apartheid state.”
Just stunning.
At the same time, Jewish students at the school are speaking out.
ABC 7 in New York reports:
Jewish students say Columbia isn’t doing enough to keep them safe amid Israel-Hamas warLocal and national leaders are stepping up efforts to address reports of antisemitic incidents on college campuses in the wake of the war overseas between Israel and Hamas.That includes an incident at Cornell University where police are investigating a series of threats posted online over the weekend…Meanwhile, at Columbia University, Jewish students and advocates are condemning what they call a failure by the university to support students facing antisemitism.Jewish and Israeli students expressed the fear and antisemitism they’re feeling on campus and they say the Columbia administration has emboldened hate by not condemning Hamas for the terrorist attack of Israeli civilians on October 7.”We got to this point because the Columbia administration, by their inaction, has enabled antisemitic rhetoric to spread and fester on the Columbia campus and throughout the university,” said Columbia law student Eli Shmidman.
The situation at some of our top schools seems to be getting worse.
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