Columbia University faces full-blown crisis as rabbi calls for Jewish students to ‘return home’ | CNN
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Columbia University is facing a full-blown crisis heading into Passover as a rabbi linked to the Ivy League school urged Jewish students to stay home and tense confrontations on campus sparked condemnation from the White House and New York officials.

The situation at Columbia has even drawn the attention of the White House, joining local leaders in urging calm.

“While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement shared with CNN on Sunday.

  • bartolomeo@suppo.fi
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    6 months ago

    The double standard is that in this case, they say "calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous”, while in this case

    https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/business/harvard-doxxing-truck-israel-hamas-statement/index.html

    no action was taken, and later Claudine Gay resigned. What’s ironic though is that with the doxxing truck

    The University’s Hillel, its Jewish student organization, condemned the billboard truck and attempts to intimidate signatories.

    “Harvard Hillel strongly condemns any attempts to threaten and intimidate co-signatories of the Palestine Solidarity Committee’s statement, including the bus on campus displaying the names and faces of students affiliated with the groups who have signed it,” the organization said in a statement posted on its website.

    The OP article is about antisemitism and it looks like Zionists use of Jews as human shields is working.