Columbia University: Action Speak Louder Than Words March 31, 2020 by Gerard Filitti of The Lawfare Project In a recent statement on March 6, 2020, Columbia University President Lee Bollinger acknowledged that he has “increasingly become concerned about anti-Semitism” on the Columbia campus. He further acknowledged that Jewish students are feeling “hatred and demonization, and invidious discrimination,” stating, “I feel it, and it’s wrong.” Admitting that there is a problem is an important first step to fixing it, and President Bollinger should be given credit for finally recognizing that Jewish students at Columbia are being subjected to “invidious discrimination.” However, despite his artful rhetoric, Bollinger still refuses to acknowledge the full extent of the problem; he claims that “[n]o Jewish student” believes that “Columbia is an ‘anti-Semitic’ institution with systemic bigotry.” This claim is simply untrue, and goes to the heart of the complaint that The Lawfare Project filed on behalf of Jewish students with the Department of Education, highlighting the University’s violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.... |
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Conversation on the Middle Eastern Conflict Columbia Global Centers March 10, 2020 Yinon Cohen, Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University, falsely claims that Israel is an apartheid state. ...“Israel has flourished for decades because it receives the unconditional support of almost all liberal democracies… due in part to these countries’ perception of Israel as a democracy,” he [Cohen] said. “The tragic irony is that Israel’s biospatial politics have given birth to a reality of a single, Jewish-Palestinian apartheid state.”... |
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- A Talk by MK Aida Touma-Sliman January 21, 2020
- Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine, February 3, 2020
- Swastikas Found at Columbia, February 18, 2020
- Palestine & BDS 101, February 20, 2020
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, March 4, 2020
- Citizenship as Gesture, March 9, 2020
- Dateline Israel (Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic), March 8, 2020
- Conversation on the Middle Eastern Conflict, March 10, 2020
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Rashid Khalidi Twists History to Delegitimize Israel March 19, 2020 by Andrew E. Harrod, Campus Watch ...While acknowledging the historic connection between Jews and modern Israel would seem to refute Khalidi's premise of Zionism as a colonial enterprise, he remained undeterred.... |
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Even In a Pandemic, Columbia Students Promote BDS March 31, 2020 by Tamara Berens, Mosaic Magazine NOTE: - PDF is available here if you cannot access the article on the Mosaic Magazine's website.
- Ze'ev Maghen's essay "How to Fight ANTI-SEMITISM" written in 1990 is available here.
...Outside the talk, Jewish students held up signs expressing their polite mistrust of Jeffries as one whose racial views merited “no place in multiculturalism.” Maghen was shocked at the timidity and the defensiveness. “A man calls you a pig. Do you walk around with a sign explaining that, in fact, you are not a pig?” he asked in “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” disseminated the next day around campus. His words sprang from the page: “Fellow Jews, where the hell is your dignity?”... |
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- Pro-Israel Students at Conference Gain Knowledge, Confidence in Combating Hate on Campus, January 12, 2020
This Student is Taking on Columbia in First Test of Trump’s Title VI Order, January 14, 2020 Professor Massad talks about Zionism, Antisemitism and Israel on Russian TV Network, January 27, 2020 Columbia's Joseph Massad Uses Holocaust Inversion to Sully Holocaust Memorial Day, February 3, 2020 Anti-Semitic, Sinophobic vandalism found on floor of East Campus, February 14, 2020 As anti-Semitism on US campuses rises, Jewish students refuse to remain silent, February 16, 2020 Swastikas Found at Columbia, February 18, 2020 Columbia U President ‘Increasingly Concerned’ Over Rising Anti-Semitism, March 9, 2020 Columbia University President Condemns Anti-Semitism, BDS, March 9, 2020 - Columbia Jewish Groups Express Appreciation for President’s Condemnation of Antisemitism, but Note ‘Still a Long Way to Go’ in Fight Against Hate on Campus, March 9, 2020
- Columbia University president opposes BDS referendum ahead of student vote, March 9, 2020
- Bollinger Ties BDS Vote to Rising Anti-Semitism, March 10, 2020
- Columbia to hold campus-wide Israel divestment vote, first in school’s history, March 12, 2020
- Rashid Khalidi Twists History to Delegitimize Israel, March 19, 2020
Columbia Faculty Members Back School President’s Antisemitism Condemnation, Pan Upcoming BDS Vote, March 20, 2020 70-plus faculty members thank Columbia university president for battling BDS vote, March 23, 2020 Even In a Pandemic, Columbia Students Promote BDS, March 31, 2020 (PDF is available here)
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Do Jews play too nice on college campuses? January 25, 2020 by Jeffrey Herbst, Jerusalem Post Three pro-Israel groups on campus – Students Supporting Israel, Aryeh and J Street U – voiced their concerns about Mahathir’s visit to university president Lee Bollinger in a letter. The organizations said they did not expect the university to cancel the address but that “it ought to show its Jewish students that it cares about their safety.”
In many ways, the students’ approach was admirable: They let their views be known, and the event itself went on without disruption. However, the effect of their letter was to telegraph that Columbia would be on safe ground while hosting the antisemitic leader. This is a peace of mind the university would not have enjoyed when sponsoring virtually any other bigot.
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