The Columbia rally began after Columbia president testified at a Home listening to on campus antisemitism.
The White Home condemned antisemitism on faculty campuses, days after New York Metropolis police dispersed a pro-Palestinian rally at Columbia College and arrested greater than 100 college students.
Although it averted naming a particular college, the White Home assertion is the newest signal of how campus tensions spurred by the Israel-Hamas battle are influencing US politics in a presidential election 12 months.
“Whereas each American has the best to peaceable protest, requires violence and bodily intimidation focusing on Jewish college students and the Jewish neighborhood are blatantly antisemitic, unconscionable, and harmful,” White Home Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates mentioned. “They’ve completely no place on any faculty campus, or wherever in the USA of America.”
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams mentioned he was “horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and across the Columbia College campus.” In a submit on X, he mentioned he had instructed the police to research “any violation of legislation.”
I’m horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and across the Columbia College campus. Hate has no place in our metropolis, and I’ve instructed the NYPD to research any violation of legislation they obtain a report about and can arrest anybody discovered to be breaking…
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) April 21, 2024
The rally at Columbia began Thursday, a day after Columbia President Nemat Shafik testified at a Home listening to on campus antisemitism. Among the many 108 college students arrested was Isra Hirsi, daughter of Consultant Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, criticized Shafik’s management of the college in a submit on X, saying Sunday that “Columbia’s management has clearly misplaced management of its campus placing Jewish college students’ security in danger.” She referred to as on Shafik to resign.
Stefanik was among the many lawmakers who pressed Shafik on Wednesday about reward by some Columbia professors for Hamas’s assault on Israel on Oct. 7. The invasion prompted an Israeli assault on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
My full assertion on Columbia College’s Failed Management:
“Whereas Columbia’s failed management spent a whole bunch of hours making ready for this week’s Congressional listening to, it clearly was an try to cowl up for his or her abject failure to implement their very own campus guidelines and defend…
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) April 21, 2024
Billionaire Invoice Ackman, who has repeatedly criticized antisemitism within the wake of Hamas’s assault, took intention on the leaders of Columbia, Harvard College, and Massachusetts Institute of Expertise, contrasting them with “different well-managed elite universities.”
I believed @Columbia was a personal college devoted to educating its college students in an environment conducive to studying. Apparently I used to be improper.
It’s fascinating to match the calm and productive studying environments at different properly managed elite universities like @DukeU and… https://t.co/eXbdLdOH8M
— Invoice Ackman (@BillAckman) April 21, 2024
Harvard College restricted entry to Harvard Yard by Friday to lower the chance of disruptive protests, the college’s scholar newspaper reported late Sunday. The restrictions embrace spot checks for college identifications and prohibitions on objects resembling tents and tables with out prior approval, the Harvard Crimson reported.
Yale College President Peter Salovey responded to protests on his college’s campus, saying Sunday that whereas Yale helps “free speech and civil discourse,” it is dedicated “to campus security, peaceable meeting, and civil discourse.
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