Protesting Professors Prove Columbia University An Antisemitic Institution
In a shocking display of hate-filled solidarity, a group of Columbia University professors held a rally to express support for pro-Hamas/antisemitic students who were suspended for unauthorized protests. The professors also criticized university president Minouche Shafik for her decision to call in the NYPD to arrest unruly student protesters. The event, which took place on Monday, saw over 100 students arrested since the formation of an unauthorized encampment zone on the school's south lawn.
Professor Christopher Brown, a vocal critic of Shafik, called for her resignation, stating, "She showed no pride in our institution and allowed slander of our institution to stand without rebuke." Brown was referring to Shafik's congressional testimony, where she failed to address the rising antisemitism on campus. It remains unexplained how Brown’s stance in supporting hate and advocating for violence can be seen as having “pride” in his institution. His is the thinking of the ignorantly arrogant and imbecilic.
Brown's sentiments were echoed by Professor David Lurie, who demanded that charges against the arrested students be dismissed and expunged from their records "immediately," thus condoning the hate and violence that permeates Columbia’s campus.
Columbia The Antisemitic
The situation on Columbia’s campus has deteriorated significantly over the weekend, with Jewish students facing violent demonstrations and calls for slaughter. The tensions have created a violent, hateful, and hostile environment, making it impossible for Jewish students to attend classes and engage in academic activities.
During the professors' rally, student attendees chanted antisemitic slogans, including "Zionists you can't hide, we charge you with genocide" and "There is only one solution, intifada revolution." These chants clearly indicate the toxic atmosphere that has engulfed the tinderboxes that are America’s university and college campuses.
Shafik's decision to call in the NYPD, while leading to further unrest and violence at the hands of the intolerant pro-Hamas/antisemitic protest groups, was seen as necessary by many who view the protests as threatening and hateful.
Brown pointed out Shafik's actions have failed to address the root cause of the problem, which is the unacceptable growth of antisemitism on campus. While true, the actions Shafik did take in calling in law enforcement were not without justification and, in fact, should be enacted as policy on university and college campuses across the country where protests incite violence and call for engaging in genocide.
This conjures the unanswered question of what individuals and/or organizations are funding these well-coordinated protests, a subject the mainstream media complex has, so far, refused to explore.
Perhaps The Academics Are The Problem
Other professors who spoke at the rally included Hillary Callahan, Julie Crawford, Maria Rivera Maulucci, and Elizabeth Bernstein.
Maulucci, who serves as chair of Barnard College's education program, has a history of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). However, her involvement in the rally raises legitimate questions about her betrayal of her alleged commitment to create safe and inclusive environments for all students.
Lurie, the head of Columbia's American Association of University Professors chapter, has taken it a step further. He is blatantly overt in his criticism of those who claim that antisemitism is a significant problem on campus. He exists as an oblivious “hate denier.”
In a previous op-ed, Lurie dismissed the idea that antisemitism is "rampant" on campus, calling it "absurd." His comments have sparked outrage among Jewish students, who feel that not only are their concerns being ignored but also that the violence being perpetrated against them by the protesters is being supported by faculty members.
The World Sees Columbia As A Woke Hate Factory
The situation at Columbia University goes beyond antisemitism. As one EU observer noted, "Today, the Jewish man symbolizes the culturally demonized white race; the white heterosexual male, like never before. In the Middle East, he represents Western-style democracy and civilization, i.e. all the values that the woke movement hates."
This sentiment highlights the deeper ideological issues that are driving the antisemitic movement on campus: ideological issues centered in Marxist wokeism.
Given the recent events, it is essential to support university and college administrators who do take a stand against violent bullying from pro-Hamas/antisemitic protesters. The clear-thinking public, elected officials, and alumni must come forward to support them. These administrators should not be threatened with termination for simply doing their jobs.
Similarly, if policies and regulations are transgressed on university and college campuses, there should be consequences for the offending students and faculty, including suspension, expulsion, and termination. By applying moral relativism and individual “truths” in excusing the growing cancer of antisemitism in our society – be it on a university or college campus or anywhere else, the metastisizing cancer will grow to consume the entire body.
Back To The Future
Free speech must be protected at all costs. But it is equally important to recognize that exercising this right comes with responsibilities. And while the thought of limiting free speech (read: censorship) is rampant on the ignorant radical Left, any limitations must be restricted to the implementation of consequences for speech that infringes on another’s rights, especially the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,” as stated in part in the Fourth Amendment.
Those who engage in fomenting sentiments of hate to acts of violence and genocidal antisemitic activities must not be allowed to trample on the rights of others to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
It is time for university and college administrations across the country to take a firm stance against antisemitism and ensure that all students, faculty, and employees feel safe and secure on campus. Short of that, those same university and college administrators must be seen as culpable in any escalation of what many see as the same mentality that emerged prior to World War II and the Holocaust in Hitler’s Germany.
Never again.
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out,
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out,
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.”
– Martin Niemöller
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