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Lawrence Bacow, at Harvard, and Lee Bollinger, at Columbia, will exit their posts in 2023
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Read this article in Yiddish To be honest, I was never interested in learning Yiddish. Before the pandemic, it was a dead language to me, something that my parents and grandparents spoke, and before that – my great-grandparents. I have Israeli family, so Hebrew is familiar to me. Yiddish is not. I could understand enough…
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Fast Forward Trump Executive Order Tested As Student Sues Columbia University For Anti-Semitic Discrimination
JTA — A federal complaint has been filed against Columbia University accusing the school of anti-Semitic discrimination. It is the first case filed since President Donald Trump’s executive order on combating anti-Semitism, which grants Jewish students the same protections as other minority groups. The order came under intense scrutiny as it classified Jewish students as…
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Fast Forward Malaysia’s Leader Questions The Holocaust In Speech At Columbia University
NEW YORK (JTA) — The prime minister of Malaysia defended his past anti-Semitic statements and questioned the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust in a speech at Columbia University. “I am exercising my right to free speech. Why is it that I can’t say something against the Jews, when a lot of people say…
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Fast Forward Columbia Professor Says Israel Is Almost Identical To Islamic State
(JTA) — A Columbia University professor wrote on Facebook that the only difference between Israel and the Islamic State is that Zionist columnists defend the Jewish state’s “terrorist cause.” Hamid Dabashi, a professor in the university’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, wrote this last week, triggering an outcry by pro-Israel students….
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Fast Forward WATCH: Columbia Student Shouts ‘I Love White People’ In Video
A white Columbia University student went on a racist rant Sunday morning, shouting, “White people are the best thing that happened to the world” at a group of primarily black underclassmen, the Columbia Spectator reported. “We are so amazing! I love myself, and I love my people! F—- yeah white people!” sophomore Julian von Abele…
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Fast Forward Swastikas Spray Painted On Jewish Columbia Professor’s Office
A Columbia University professor’s office was vandalized with two swastikas and an anti-Semitic slur, CNN reported. Elizabeth Midlarsky, who is Jewish, has published articles on the Holocaust. The NYPD launched an investigation into what appears to be a hate crime. “I opened the outer door and almost passed out,” she told CNN, about the moment…
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