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Columbia University Faces Second Recent Complaint Alleging Antisemitic Discrimination

2019-12-24

h/t Instapundit
[Algemeiner] - An alumna of Columbia University in New York submitted a complaint to the US Education Department on Tuesday alleging a hostile environment for Jewish students ‐ the second of its kind recently filed.

Jamie Kreitman said she received a master’s degree in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from Columbia in 1980, but was deterred from pursuing a doctorate ‐ despite being "recommended for further studies by a sympathetic professor" ‐ due to a climate of antisemitism, specifically among faculty in the area of Middle East studies.

She lodged her complaint against Columbia’s Middle East Institute (MEI) with the Office for Civil Rights, which last week also received a separate complaint alleging discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students and faculty at Columbia. The complaint is not based on her personal experience at the school, "but as a Jewish alumna with the concern that the hostile environment toward Jewish students has intensified exponentially," she wrote.

Update at 11:55 a.m. ET

Columbia U accused of anti-Semitism in first test of Trump executive order

[IsraelTimes] Lawfare Project legal aid group says Jewish students ’have endured systematic discrimination from tenured professors and anti-Israel groups’.

A federal complaint has been filed against Columbia University accusing the school of anti-Semitic discrimination.

It is the first case filed since US President Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s executive order on combating anti-Semitism, which grants Jewish students the same protections as other minority groups.

The complaint requests a formal investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights into alleged anti-Semitic discrimination at Columbia. It was filed by the Lawfare Project on behalf of a Jewish Israeli-American undergraduate who says he has been a victim of anti-Semitic discrimination over the past year.

Jonathan Karten told The Jerusalem Post that he decided to go forward with the complaint after he learned that a well-known professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia had endorsed Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, "with impunity." Karten’s uncle Sharon Edri was kidnapped and murdered by a Hamas cell in Israel in 1996.

According to the Lawfare Project, Jewish students at Columbia "have endured systematic discrimination from tenured professors and anti-Israel groups," including Students for Justice for Paleostine and Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Columbia students and faculty also host Israel Apartheid Week, which has included bringing virulently anti-Semitic speakers to campus.

A university spokesperson said in an email that Columbia had no comment on the complaint.

Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#2 1980?

An alumna — more as a friend fo the court brief, it looks like. I had the first complaint queued up for tomorrow, but pasted it above just now instead.

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-24 11:57

#1 1980?

Typo? If not, doesn't the statute of limitations apply? Also, Edward Said was riding high, spreading his vitriolic crap back then, but has long since passed from the scene. IIRC The other snake (Rashidi?) has been largely discredited by credible sex abuse charges.

I could be wrong but I believe Columbia is generally a good actor on issues of intellectual integrity, resisting Woke madness and free speech generally.

Wrong target. Yale is the worst, followed closely by Wesleyan, Amherst, Middlebury, and a dozen other New England liberal arts colleges along with Cornell, Northwestern and Michigan.

But Lee Bollinger is one of the good guys.

Posted by: Lex 2019-12-24 09:37

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