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2024-12-15 Fifth Column
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Jew-hate at American universities round-up: 12/2-12/14
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An incomplete list of things I came across while looking for other things. Two weeks worth, because I was distracted by the HTS blitzkrieg conquest of Syria, now apparently settling down to the usual Middle Eastern caliphate. UCLA student files petition against Cultural Affairs Commissioner who allegedly warned against hiring 'zionists'
A student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has filed a petition against a student government official for discrimination against Jews in hiring.
'PSA ... lots of zionists are applying — please do your research when you look at applicants and I will also share a doc of no hire list during retreat,' the petition alleges that the official wrote.
New ADL study exposes SYSTEMIC job discrimination against Jewish applicants, students
The study found that on average, Israeli-Americans must complete 39 percent more job applications than Western Europeans in order to receive an equal number of responses.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt stated that ‘this is groundbreaking evidence of serious antisemitic discrimination in the labor market.’
‘Antisemitism on steroids’: Pro-Israel law professor rips Cornell ‘Gaza’ course
[CollegeFix] Cornell professor, president condemn course for ‘radical,’ ‘biased view,’ faculty committee fires back
Menachem Rosensaft, a pro-Israel law professor at Cornell University, condemned the school’s course on Gaza for its “inflamingly biased pseudo-scholarship” in an op-ed Wednesday.
The op-ed follows similar criticism from the university president, who faced backlash from a faculty committee accusing him of violating academic freedom in response.
“My principal objection to this course is not that it has a decidedly and unabashedly pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bent,” Rosensaft wrote in The Cornell Daily Sun.
“What I find most problematic and unacceptable about it is that it is firmly rooted in shoddy, selectively and inflamingly biased pseudo-scholarship,” he wrote.
Rosensaft stated that when he first learned of Professor Eric Cheyfitz’s course, titled “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance,” he told Interim President Mike Kotlikoff that it would “promote and inflame political divisiveness at Cornell and encourage antisemitic manifestations against Israeli and Jewish students.”
Cornell University’s Jewish interim president is facing growing blowback from higher education groups over emails published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last month, in which he raised objections to an upcoming class on Gaza.
Michael Kotlikoff’s remarks, which JTA reported on November 11, were a violation of academic freedom, say representatives of the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association. The episode is the latest instance of campus scrutiny over Israel shifting from protests to the classroom, more than a year removed from the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught that launched the war in Gaza.
In the email, Kotlikoff expressed his objections to a new course entitled “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance,” scheduled to be taught next term by Jewish professor Eric Cheyfitz, a pro-Palestinian activist who teaches in the school’s American Indian and Indigenous Studies program. Writing to a different Jewish professor, Kotlikoff said he was “extremely disappointed” with “the course’s apparent lack of openness and objectivity,” and promised to work with other departments to offer alternative courses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The email, which Kotlikoff says was never meant to be publicized, has prompted anger over the past week as the story gained traction in the Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper.
Students at Columbia University launch anti-Israel ‘Columbia Intifada’ newspaper: ‘Outrageous’
[NYPost] An anti-Israel student club at Columbia University freely distributed a new hateful newspaper on campus Friday — peddling antagonistic rhetoric calling Jews “colonists” and “subjugators.”
While the Ivy League institution denounced the publication, the hate-fueled group Students for Justice in Palestine openly handed out its inaugural edition of “The Columbia Intifada.”
The group printed 1,000 copies of the rag, which contains about a half-dozen articles with titles including “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood,” “The Myth of the Two-State Solution” and a handy “Guide to Wheatpasting” — a method of vandalizing public surfaces with propaganda fliers or other messaging.
Allowing such a publication to take root on campus is “outrageous,” said New York Congressman Mike Lawler, who represents voters in Rockland, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties.
“If Columbia cannot protect Jewish students on their campus, they should lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked,” the rep wrote in a post on X.
“And for those students here on a visa engaged in an “intifada” against American students of the Jewish faith? Deport them,” he raged.
Columbia itself denounced the newspaper’s publication, including its unauthorized association with the school by name. The university suspended the group last November for repeatedly violating school policies, including with its “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.”
“Using the Columbia name for a publication that glorifies violence and makes individuals in our community feel targeted in any way is a breach of our values,” a school representative said in a statement to The Post on Friday.
Columbia’s anti-Israel student alliance booted from Instagram
[IsraelTimes] Columbia University Apartheid Divest removed from social media platform after post calling Barnard College trustees ‘enemies,’ ‘murderers,’ and ‘violently genocidal zionists’
INTERVIEW: Columbia’s Task Force on Antisemitism co-chair expounds on complexity of anti-Israel protests
[IsraelTimes] Emeritus journalism dean Nicholas Lemann talks challenges of determining when antisemitism, anti-Zionism intersect, why critics of Ivies are oversimplifying issue.
“Academic freedom and free speech are not the exact same thing.…Academic freedom is about classroom teaching and research. You can’t propagandize in class, or you shouldn’t. There’s a power imbalance.”
“Protest is constant at Columbia, but the level of protest we were seeing last year was by far the highest I’ve ever seen in my 21 years at Columbia. Most of the causes that sweep through the university are on the left, and this one is too. But in most cases, these stakeholder groups that I mentioned are pretty much on the same side of the issue — everybody’s against climate change or supported the post-George Floyd wave and things like that. In the case of [the Israel-Palestinian conflict], significant stakeholders or subgroups within the stakeholder groups 100% passionately disagree about the question at hand. That’s uncharacteristic of most of these university protest waves.”
Interview: US dean of education defends campus diversity training, seeks more inclusivity for Jews
[IsraelTimes] Michael J. Feuer of George Washington University, visiting Israel for an educational conference, weighs in on the wartime campus protest movements and Trump’s plans for the US.
Jewish University of Michigan official’s home, car vandalized; school says attack antisemitic
[IsraelTimes] Jordan Acker posts pictures on social media showing his wife’s car spray-painted with the phrase “Divest and Free Palestine” and the window of his home shattered after he said a mason jar was thrown at it in the middle of the night while his family was sleeping.
“This is the third time that I — and now my family — have been the target of these [Ku Klux] Klan-like tactics,” Acker writes on Facebook.
Acker has become a primary target of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student activists at the University of Michigan who have sought unsuccessfully to convince their school to cut all ties with Israel. Earlier this year, Acker’s law firm was targeted by anti-Israel vandals. Police have yet to make an arrest in that case.
SF Hillel graffitied with slogan about battle that ended in Muslim slaughter of Jews
Head of local Jewish group says assailants tried to break into Jewish center at San Francisco State University after spraying ‘Khaybar’ and ‘death to Western imperialism!’ graffiti.
At Harvard, US academics compare notes on a year of post-Oct. 7 campus antisemitism
Jewish Studies faculty from around the United States convene in Cambridge this week to dissect an ongoing period of unprecedented hostility.
NYPD’s hate crimes unit investigating alleged attack on Jewish Columbia student
A Jewish Columbia University student who says he was assaulted at an anti-Israel protest next to the campus on Monday says the NYPD is investigating the case and calls on the university to take action.
Jewish Columbia student Jonathan Lederer, 22, says he and his twin brother went to the anti-Israel protest on 116th and Broadway on Monday to document the event and “show our voice.” They stayed across the street from the anti-Israel demonstrators and were wearing Israeli flags and kippahs.
A group of around five protesters wearing keffiyehs harassed the pair, calling them “Nazis” and saying “You like killing babies,” says Lederer, a junior studying computer science. One of the demonstrators tore a flag from Lederer’s hands. Lederer sought to retrieve the flag, at which point one of the protesters punched Lederer in the right side of his face, causing pain but no significant injuries.
The NYPD tells The Times of Israel that the police’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident and releases a photo of the suspect.
Lederer caught the incident on video, although his camera was pointed away from the assailant when he threw the punch. The attacker was wearing a mask at the time, but had exposed his face earlier in the event.
It’s unclear if the alleged assailant was a student. The demonstration was organized by student organizations and led by Within Our Lifetime, a hardline activist group in the city that has worked with Columbia student protesters. Posts announcing the protest included violent imagery and prompted school officials to tighten security at Barnard, Columbia’s women’s college.
Lederer says university officials including a top dean have reached out to him, but calls on the school to take more action against the student groups. Lederer says he was also assaulted at a protest on campus in April.
Columbia’s anti-Israel student group reinstated to Instagram
Columbia University’s alliance of anti-Israel activist groups is reinstated to Instagram after being suspended from the platform earlier this week.
Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of dozens of student groups, was suspended after posting plans for a protest targeting university trustees that included an image of a figure holding a Molotov cocktail.
That protest targeted Barnard College, the women’s college associated with Columbia. Barnard condemned “inflammatory posts with violent imagery” and stepped up security measures on campus in response.
Meta, Instagram’s parent company, did not respond to a request for comment on the suspension at the time.
Instagram is the student group’s main platform for organizing and advertising its events. The account has more than 47,000 followers.
Anti-Israel protester punches Jewish student, calls him 'Nazi' in deranged attack outside Columbia University
December 12, 2024 | 11:10am
An anti-Israel protester slugged a Columbia University Jewish student in the face after calling him a Nazi and comparing Israel to Hitler during a deranged attack outside the Ivy League,...
He Sits on Columbia's Top Disciplinary Body. He Also Lauds Terrorist Plane Hijackings as 'Spectacular.'
Joseph Slaughter, who has defended illegal encampments at the Ivy League school, helped write new guidelines surrounding campus protest rules.
A Columbia spokeswoman told the Free Beacon that "promoting violence" is "antithetical to our values."
"As we have said repeatedly, promoting violence or those who support violence and harm is antithetical to our values. We remain committed to our core mission of teaching, creating and advancing knowledge," the spokeswoman said.
Police find ammo, ‘death to Jews’ sign at George Mason student leaders’ home
Pro-Palestinian sisters banned from campus for four years over vandalism allegations; faculty said armed raid was due to ‘activism’
When George Mason University suspended the campus Students for Justice in Palestine group, and subsequently assisted in a police raid of its leaders’ home, it violated students’ free speech rights and targeted them for “activism,” according to supporters.
But in reality, it appears to have stemmed from concerns about items at the home of two sister leaders of the group.
Jena and Noor Chanaa had their family home raided by the FBI following allegations they were responsible for pro-Palestinian vandalism on campus in late August. Both sisters have been given four-year suspensions from campus. (The featured image is not necessarily one of the two students but is from the GMU Coalition for Palestine Instagram page).
The Washington Free Beacon reported more on the November raid on Monday. The Free Beacon reported, based on a review of documents and interviews, that the police “found firearms—modern weapons, not antiques—as well as scores of ammunition and foreign passports.”
It reported further:
They also found pro-terror materials, including Hamas and Hezbollah flags and signs that read “death to America” and “death to Jews,” according to court documents and sources familiar.
Police seized the weapons under Virginia’s red flag law, arguing that Mohammad Chanaa, the students’ brother and a George Mason alumnus, was “linked to destruction of property in connection with a large group of people with like-minded rhetoric” and posed a danger to others given his possession of “terroristic” materials. 
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