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.

  • masquenox@lemmy.world
    607·
    7 months ago

    Sooo… where’s the antisemitism these liberal pundits are all getting hysterical about and wants to pretend poses some kind of “antisemitic” threat to Jewish people at this university?

    Oh, right… here it is.

    “Columbia students organizing in solidarity with Palestine – including Jewish students – have faced harassment, doxxing, and now arrest by the NYPD. These are the main threats to the safety of Jewish Columbia students,” Jonathan Ben-Menachem, a PhD student, told CNN.

    Ie, all the antisemitism is coming from the usual sources - the US political establishment, it’s pet media and it’s goon squads.

          • masquenox@lemmy.world
            710·
            7 months ago

            Right, Judaism is so “western” that it existed long before the west existed. Much “western.”

            I’d say I’m sorry that obvious historical fact disturbs so many liberals - but I won’t. Because I’m not.

            • Daxtron2@startrek.website
              62·
              7 months ago

              I’m sorry your hot take is what here exactly? Antisemitism didn’t exist before the cultural concept of ‘the west’? Because that’s just patently false

              • masquenox@lemmy.world
                312·
                7 months ago

                You do understand that we can track where antisemitism comes from, right? Even all the way past the Spanish Reconquista and the subsequent instututionalization of the very first race laws?

                White supremacism and antisemitism is as fundamental to “western civilization” as… well - I guess there really isn’t anything else to “western civilization,” is there? And that includes the liberalism that’s overflowing here on lemmy.world.

                • Daxtron2@startrek.website
                  7·
                  7 months ago

                  I never said the west didnt/doesn’t practice antisemitism, but to call a “Western invention” is patently false. And just sprinkling “liberalism” throughout your comments doesn’t make you sound like an enlightened leftist, it makes you sound uneducated. You can’t even identify it and you’re just calling people liberals left and right lmao. How can Judaism simultaneously both predate the West and antisemitism be invented by the west? Antisemitism has existed since the beginning, literally in their own books.

                  • masquenox@lemmy.world
                    110·
                    7 months ago

                    Wanna take a wild guess who invented the term “Semitic.” liberal?

                    1879 statute of the Antisemitic League, the organization which first popularized the term.

                    You were saying, liberal?

                    How can Judaism simultaneously both predate the West and antisemitism be invented by the west?

                    You do realize that people existed in Africa before “western civilization” invented “race science”, right?

                    Please take a moment to appreciate just how garbage your understanding of history really is. You know what they say - acknowledging your condition is the first step toward recovery.