Columbia University President Defends Students Who Supported Hamas
“We are grateful for the persistence and perseverance of the students, and their families, in the face of this harassment”
Columbia’s handling of this has been horrible and it keeps getting worse.
FOX News reports:
Columbia University president praises ‘persistence’ of students accused of antisemitism
Columbia University’s president has praised the “persistence” of students accused of antisemitism amid the Israel-Hamas war.
In an email to the community Wednesday, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik and Barnard College President Laura Rosenbury announced they are establishing a “Doxing Resource Group” composed of key offices across both campuses to “serve as a centralized point of contact for issues related to doxing, harassment, and online security.”
“The deliberate harassment and targeting of members of our community by doxing, a dangerous form of intimidation, is unacceptable,” they wrote. “Many individuals, including students across several schools, have been subject to these attacks by third parties. This includes disturbing incidents in which trucks have circled the Columbia campus displaying and publicizing the names and photos of Arab, Muslim and Palestinian students.”
“We are grateful for the persistence and perseverance of the students, and their families, in the face of this harassment,” Shafik and Rosenbury continued. “We are assembling available resources to support them and the staff and faculty who are by their side.”
The announcement came in response to the nonprofit news watchdog Accuracy in Media sending trucks to Columbia’s campuses in Manhattan, featuring large video screens on all sides and displaying the words “Columbia’s Leading Antisemites” over a slideshow of Ivy League students’ headshots and names in red block letters.
The display intended to identify students who allegedly justified the Oct. 7 deadly assault by Hamas militants on Israeli civilians through “a horribly hateful, antisemitic proclamation similar to the one signed at Harvard that blamed victims for their own death, rape and torture,” Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette told the New York Post.
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Ah, since 1 July, Lee Bollinger is out. The new Columbia University President: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minouche_Shafik.
There are some very extreme antisemites in and from the UK.
For 2019, Columbia had almost $6 billion and $5.5 billion in revenue and assets, respectively.
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/135598093_202006_990_2021052618202696.pdf
Columbia president Minouche Shafik is a terrorist apologist??
Is anybody surprised by this??
American Academy would be a bad g help.
Then they can close Columbia’s lovely main campus and convert into a more formalized insane asylum, starting with the regular faculty and administration.
would be a big help.
It may not be perfect but the Trump-proposed American Academy has much to offer that’d be a big improvement over what Columbia has become.