Columbia College’s rabbinical leaders have urged Jewish college students to hunt refuge at house till the state of affairs across the campus has “dramatically improved.”
Based on a textual content obtained by CNN’s Jake Tapper, the leaders of Columbia’s Jewish Studying Initiative on Campus, Rav Elie and Tamar Buechler, despatched a WhatsApp message to college students following dramatic anti-Israel demonstrations through which over 100 folks had been arrested.
They wrote:
What we’re witnessing round campus is horrible and tragic. The occasions of the previous couple of days, particularly final night time, have made clear that Columbia College’s Public Security and the NYPD can’t assure Jewish college students’ security within the face of maximum antisemitism and anarchy.
It deeply pains me to say that I like to recommend you come back house as quickly as attainable and stay house till the fact in and round campus has dramatically improved.
It isn’t our job as Jews to make sure our personal security on campus. Nobody ought to should endure this degree of hatred, particularly in school.
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and round campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard despatched a WhatsApp message to greater than 290+ Jewish college students this morning recommending that they go house till it’s secure once more for them on campus: pic.twitter.com/uqAntEICLv
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 21, 2024
Among the many college students concerned on this week’s protests was the daughter of the far-left Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Isra Hirsi, who confirmed she had been suspended by the college for “standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.”
i’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest @ColumbiaSJP, in my 3 years at @BarnardCollege i’ve by no means been reprimanded or obtained any disciplinary warnings
i simply obtained discover that i’m 1 of three college students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians dealing with a genocide.
— isra hirsi (@israhirsi) April 18, 2024
The protests at Columbia are merely one in all 1000’s of similar demonstrations to happen in current months, as supporters of the Palestinian trigger mobilize in response to Israel’s battle on Hamas.
