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Columbia University suspends anti-Israel groups SJP, JVP for violating school policies

2023-11-12

A bold move to take back the campus?

[IsraelTimes] Columbia University is suspending two anti-Israel groups — Students for Justice in Paleostine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) — as official student groups through the end of the fall semester,

Or perhaps not so bold, the punishment, such as it is, lasting only a little over a month. That’s a slap on the wrist with a wet noodle in the hope of masking what they actually approve of. The donor desertions must really hurt.

the school’s senior executive vice president Gerald Rosberg announces in a statement.

"This decision was made after the two groups repeatedly violated university policies related to holding campus events, culminating in an unauthorized event Thursday afternoon that proceeded despite warnings and included threatening rhetoric and intimidation," Rosberg says.

The two groups will not be eligible to hold events on campus or receive university funding, Rosberg explains.

Off campus and outside funding are fine, though, and it doesn’t sound like they have to give back university funding that had not yet been spent. To think that my German grandmother’s first job in America when they arrived here after the war was as housekeeper for the Columbia chancellor.

"Lifting the suspension will be contingent on the two groups demonstrating a commitment to compliance with university policies and engaging in consultations at a group leadership level with university officials," he says.

"Like all student groups, SJP and JVP are required to abide by university policies and procedures. This ensures both the safety of our community and that core University activities can be conducted without disruption."

"During this especially charged time on our campus, we are strongly committed to giving space to student groups to participate in debate, advocacy, and protest. This relies on community members abiding by the rules and cooperating with University administrators who have a duty to ensure the safety of everyone in our community," the university official adds.

LA charter school ousts teachers who taught 1st graders about ‘genocide of Palestine’

[IsraelTimes] The Los Angeles charter school that stirred controversy at the synagogue where it is housed after first-grade teachers taught lessons about "the genocide of Paleostine" announced steps on Friday to "repair this harm."

Two teachers have been removed from the school and the principal has been placed on leave at Citizens of the World Charter School-East Valley, announced Melissa Kaplan, the school network’s executive director, at a presser held outside Adat Ari El synagogue.

Hye-Won Gehring, the school’s principal, had relayed complaints from her staff to the synagogue’s rabbi about Israeli flags that were hung up on the campus after Hamas
Hamas

...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’ October 7 attack on Israel, according to Kaplan and Brian Schuldenfrei, Adat Ari El’s senior rabbi. Kaplan said Gehring would be going on a two-week leave to "focus on learning how to combat antisemitism and engage in sensitivity training to learn from this experience."

A mistake. At this point everybody knows, so the only way a lesson will be learnt is to cut them off completely, letting them marinate in the consequences of their actions,

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 Turn on the lights and the cockroaches scatter. Hence the Keffiyehs covering their ugly faces

Posted by: Frank G 2023-11-12 07:09

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-12 04:32

#1 The suspension is temporary - until public attention dies down.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-12 04:29

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