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Dark Days at Columbia for Jewish Students
With campus chaos and violence threatening to overwhelm elite universities, some students are struggling more than others.
“Universities like Columbia must end the double standard and stop tolerating campus antisemitism,” begged Alan Dershowitz and Andrew Stein for the New York Post on April 18, 2024.
“What is permissible to say against Jews and Israel would not be permissible to say against blacks or gays,” they began. “That is the reality.”
“Universities, whether public or private, should apply a single standard of free speech, harassment, and tolerance for dissenting views,” Dershowitz and Stein added.
If college administrators heard the plea, they ignored it.
“I had a front-row seat to the ‘liberated zone’ madness at Columbia University,” wrote Rikki Schlott for the New York Post on April 18, 2024. “Columbia University — supposedly New York City’s most prestigious college — has descended into absolute chaos in the name of Palestinian liberation.”
Campus chaos — and for Jewish students, violence.
“They Were Assaulted on Campus for Being Jews,” recounted Free Press editor and independent media maven Bari Weiss, nee the New York Times, on April 21, 2024.