Columbia Administrators Exchange Crude Texts During Panel on Jewish Life on Campus
Matthew “Patashnick, the associate dean for student and family support, also chimed in to say that one of the panelists—it is not clear to whom he was referring—is capitalizing on the crisis at hand to raise money.”
So much rot at Columbia University.
The Washington Free Beacon received text messages Columbia administrators exchanged with each other during a panel on Jewish life on campus.
That is always disturbing. It becomes even worse considering what the school allowed to happen weeks before graduation.
The text messages occurred during reunion weekend:
One, focused on Jewish life on campus, was particularly newsworthy. Student protesters who had broken into and occupied a university building during the academic year had reconstituted themselves to disrupt reunion festivities, and, as the protesters were preparing to erect a new encampment, the university held a panel discussion about the past, present, and future of Jewish life at Columbia.
The event featured the former dean of Columbia Law School, David Schizer, who co-chaired the university’s task force on anti-Semitism; the executive director of Columbia’s Kraft Center for Jewish Life, Brian Cohen; the school’s dean of religious life, Ian Rottenberg; and a rising Columbia junior, Rebecca Massel, who covered the campus protests for the student newspaper.
In the audience, according to two attendees, were several top members of the Columbia administration. Given the sensitivity of the subject—the eruption of anti-Semitism on campus in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel put a national spotlight on the school, and Columbia recently settled a lawsuit with a Jewish student who accused the school of fostering an unsafe learning environment—the administrators’ presence made sense.
The administrators included Josef Sorett, the dean of Columbia College; Susan Chang-Kim, the vice dean and chief administrative officer of Columbia College; Cristen Kromm, the dean of undergraduate student life; and Matthew Patashnick, the associate dean for student and family support.
The people doubted the Jewish students felt unsafe or intimidation during the massive pro-Hamas encampment on campus:
The administrators expressed skepticism that Jewish students had experienced targeting or discrimination. As Massel, who published a news report in the Columbia Spectator about Jewish students who felt “ostracized,” was asked to dilate on “the experience of Jewish and Israeli students on campus,” Chang-Kim fired off a text to Kromm and Patashnick: “Did we really have students being kicked out of clubs for being Jewish?”
Kromm used the vomit emojis when the panel discussed an op-ed about “the normalization of Hamas” on campus.
Patashnick then accused a panelist of using the pro-Hamas crisis to raise money:
“He knows exactly what he’s doing and how to take full advantage of this moment,” Patashnick wrote to Chang-Kim and Kromm. “Huge fundraising potential.” Chang-Kim responded: “Double Urgh.”
The officials spent much of the panel texting among themselves about how horrible they thought it was. Matthew Patashnick, the associate dean for student and family support, complained that Cohen, the Hillel rabbi, was exploiting the moment’s “fundraising potential.” pic.twitter.com/U8RpbMo2VO
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) June 13, 2024
The text messages, which were captured by an audience member sitting behind Chang-Kim who photographed the vice dean tapping away on her phone, also used vomit emojis to describe an op-ed about anti-Semitism by Columbia's campus rabbi. pic.twitter.com/j3ZnxXnU6A
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) June 13, 2024
Among the comments Chang-Kim offered to Kromm and Patashnick: "This panel is really making the administration look like jokers." Patashnick replied, "Yep." pic.twitter.com/TibWgZGlnk
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) June 13, 2024
Patashnick, the associate dean for student and family support, also chimed in to say that one of the panelists—it is not clear to whom he was referring—is capitalizing on the crisis at hand to raise money.
— Aaron Sibarium (@aaronsibarium) June 13, 2024
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How unsurprising that they didn’t take it seriously . These are the same people that let one of their student who later was identified as a ringleader for the pro terrorism encampments, rant and rave about wanting to kill Zionist’s. That student received no punishment until the school was embarrassed by him reposting his own comments. So of course they don’t care , they wouldn’t even care if there was serious violence against Jewish students on their campus, they would find some way to justify that. All they care about is keeping the money flowing from Qatar, Saudi etc etc. when you’ve gone as deep down the shit hole as these people have their is no way out and nothing to do but to keep digging in deeper and deeper.
I absolutely agree. University administrators have proven to be as greedy and acquisitive as any two bit hustler. They’ve just developed a more lucrative hustle. These geniuses did not even bother trying to hide behind a pretense at erudition. Among themselves, they were indeed vulgar and crude.
File under fake outrage.
The antisemitism card is a favorite in Jewish culture. That’s not controversial. Some organization names have always traded on it, e.g. the Anti-Defamation League.
Jewish alienation is a creative resource and the scholarship resulting fro it is outstanding, but the low IQ Jews need another way to prevent Jewish assimilation.
A very pathetic and low IQ comment that minimizes antisemitism at Columbia as “fake outrage,” pretends organizations like the ADL were formed to “trade” on antisemitism, not oppose it, and mirrors the bias of the texters quite well.
They could play an anti-intimidation card or an anti-assault card and get support. There’s lots of rule of law people.
It’s not about “playing.” That is a low IQ perspective.
Minimizing antisemitism is also low IQ.
Low-IQ means not smart enough to use alienation as a creative resource. Not able to get any actual benefit from it.
Low IQ is not saying things in simple fashion, but trying to dress it up to obscure the actual reality. Easy to see through. Keep pretending if you must.
Jewish classical music is a good example of using alienation as a creative resource
Ernest Bloch, Suite Hebriaque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhGZhP9Zv98
many others, it’s a whole genre.
There you go with the low IQ stuff again, pretending to mask it, minimizing antisemitism as if it’s a game to be played. Pathetic!
Miklos Rozsa Sonata for two violins 2nd movement, performed in Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C90t3zV28u0
Low IQ response.
Translation: ‘Not like those greedy shrewd power-hungry Jews pretending that there are people who don’t like there being Jews.”
Wow you are funny , no wonder they say antisemitism is a low IQ disorder.
Wow. Blatant anti-Semitism here?!?
I usually try to ignore you when you post because your posts tend to be pseudo-intellectual, arrogant and vile.
Pretending, on a public page, that you are more intelligent than any single ethnic group of people seems merely like an exercise in validating yourself…and then, when you justify your antisemitism by turning it around back on Jewish people as if it’s their fault, you confirm to us your pettiness and snobbery.
All the Jewish kids in school were probably smarter than you and it still hurts your feelings.
Antisemitism may be subtle at times, but it was pretty blatant in this case. I have no idea of what you think you’re saying – except it’s the Jews’ fault that the administrators at Columbia hold Jews in contempt.
During court appearances yesterday for the 17 CUNY students arrested during last month’s GAZA protests, Bragg has moved to dismiss no less than 7 of those cases. The DA’s office claims they’re moving forward with the remaining 10 felony cases. We’ll see. But, I thought it was curious that I didn’t see this development reported anywhere but a few obscure NYC blogs.
This article also says that the only felony arrests happened at CUNY which is strange considering how bad the protests were at Columbia (I believe it was Columbia where some maintenance workers and other students were essentially held hostage for the night). Those arrested at Columbia are only facing misdemeanor charges…which will almost certainly all go away.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/06/12/cuny-students-charges-dropped-protest-palestine/
Will these crude comments play a role in civil litigation for damages? This seems pretty damning.
I’d like to know how these texts came to light. Can they be used in any lawsuits against Columbia?
It looks like somebody sitting behind them took photos.
Cultural Marxism has taken over colleges
look at blmplo>>>law$$uit
attack j ews>>>>>fighting for freedom
The vile Dhimmi-crats are as contemptible and evil as American and British sympathizers and rationalizers of German National Socialism, in the 1920’s and 1930’s, preceding the onset of WWII. That’s obvious. These people are scum, gleefully whitewashing and enabling goose-stepping Jew-hate, Muslim supremacism and Islamofascism.
It’s all fun and games picking on the Jews
Lots of photos Nazis laughing and yakking it up while dishing out torment
But I can’t help but wonder how hilarious it would all be if tables were turned
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote about this exact thing — as described at Columbia above — in The Gulag Archipelago
The Free Beacon today with follow-up…incredibly arrogant individuals….
https://freebeacon.com/campus/columbia-college-dean-says-disparaging-texts-vomit-emojis-sent-during-panel-on-jewish-life-dont-reflect-the-views-of-administrators/Free Beacon today……