Citing “serious and pervasive” problems uncovered through nearly 500 student testimonials, the faculty task force recommended revamped anti-bias training…
were ostracized from student groups, humiliated in classrooms and subjected to verbal abuse as pro-Palestinian demonstrations shook the campus last year, and their complaints were often downplayed or ignored by school officials and faculty, the university's task force on antisemitism said in a report released Friday.
The task force said its definition of antisemitism was intended for use in training and education, not for discipline or to limit speech. In a bulletin posted online, a coalition of student groups that has been demanding that the school divest from Israeli companies and sever academic ties with Israeli institutions, said it would continue with its protests.
Pro-Palestinian protesters first set up tent encampments on Columbia’s campus during Shafik’s congressional testimony in mid-April, where she denounced antisemitism but faced criticism for how she’d responded to faculty and student complaints. The school sent in police to clear the tents the following day, only for the students to return and inspire a wave of similar protests at campuses across the country.
In one reported instance, an Israeli student described feeling forced off a school dance team because she would not support its decision to join the pro-Palestinian Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition.
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