Jewish students on Columbia University's campus have been both accosted and terrified of anti-Israel protesters as the chaos grows in uptown Manhattan.
Jewish students at New York's Columbia University told Fox News on Monday that campus is increasingly unsafe during ongoing anti-Israel protests and that some plan to heed the call of one prominent rabbi who warned them to leave during Passover. Xavier Westergaard, a Ph.D.
said Monday that Columbia 'does not want present on campus' despite rising tensions and alleged attacks on Jewish students like Westergaard. Deputy Commissioner Michale Gerber told reporters it remains legal for officers to enter campus for a reported attack as if they were called to a private residence. Westergaard called the environment on-campus 'absolutely dreadful' and 'unsafe.' He recounted being purportedly called out by name as he crossed the campus to go to a laboratory session – during which he said he was called out by name and school identification number despite no active confrontation on his part.
So even though the campus security has shut down the university, not affiliates, they brought in God knows who subverting the university. And it's very, very scary,' he said, adding that New York City as a whole seems held to a different standard on antisemitic behavior.
She added that in the aftermath of the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas, Palestinian students and their supporters on campus were seen wearing ethnic keffiyehs, and that she would approach them to have a conversation about the situation, but that the students instead rebuffed her invitation.
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