Sheila Nazarian,
Jerusalem Post, Feb. 12, 2024
“How is it possible that Nazi-style propaganda hangs in libraries and the administration refuses to intervene?”
The congressional hearing at which the presidents of elite universities testified that calls for the genocide of Jews were dependent on context has become infamous.
The list of grievances surrounding that notorious hearing is extensive, but one in particular bears highlighting – the way Columbia University, my own alma mater, emerged practically unscathed, despite being widely acknowledged as one of the national hot spots of campus antisemitism, being under a federal civil rights probe for antisemitic hostility, and being home to one hateful incident after another, every week since October 7.
Other observers, including The New York Times, have also noted Columbia’s disappearance from the post-October 7 spotlight.
Antisemitism on Columbia’s campus
The university garnered national attention in the immediate aftermath of the attack, after a Jewish student was violently assaulted by a pro-Palestine student for hanging hostage posters amid a wave of hostile anti-Israel campus activity; and again in late November, when the administration temporarily banned the school’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), citing a wave of unauthorized and disruptive protests.
However, Columbia then faded from the limelight in December, overshadowed by the pathetic hearing performances of other Ivy League presidents and the weeks-long dramatics of their graceless resignations.
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