Columbia University’s new task force report shows that antisemitism is pervasive at the university — and it’s just a symptom of a larger ailment plaguing elite higher education.
Columbia University ’s new task force report shows antisemitism is pervasive at the university — and it’s just a symptom of a larger ailment plaguing elite higher education.
“The testimonies of hundreds of Jewish and Israeli students have made clear that the University community has not treated them with the standards of civility, respect, and fairness it promises to all its students,” the schoolTuesday by more anti-Israel protesters, as the new school year starts. Students had to line up and be screeened to be allowed onto campus in the first place, an Alma Mater statue on college grounds was splashed with red paint and two arrests of protesters were made.
Similarly, schools with less students on Pell Grants were more likely to have protests and encampments. While familial wealth and anti-israel sentiment might seem disconnected on the surface, a certain level of privilege is required to have the time and bandwidth to pitch a tent and skip out on finals in the name of a struggle in a foreign country you’ve never been to before.
And it’s no wonder that the most expensive schools have proven the most susceptible to such emboldened bigotry. There’s a naive privilege required to believe that you — as a kid with a lot of demands and a tent you bought off of Amazon — could alter the course of a decades-long international conflict because you yelled and screamed and camped out long enough.Anti-Israel demonstrators from an encampment on Columbia University barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall on April 30 and attempted to re-name it Hind’s Hall after a Palestinian child killed in the conflict.
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