The 4th @Columbia Task Force Report on Antisemitism just dropped and the findings are INSANE.
Students were scapegoated, stereotyped, denied access to class, and had their privacy violated, all by remorseless faculty, who made no effort to hide their bias. Buckle up 🧵👇 1/6
Students were scapegoated, stereotyped, denied access to class, and had their privacy violated, all by remorseless faculty, who made no effort to hide their bias. Buckle up 🧵👇 1/6
Israeli students @Columbia were called out in class by faculty as occupiers and murderers.
Jewish students were personally degraded as faculty turned the classroom into a kangaroo court, putting Israeli students in particular on trial for their identity in front of their peers. 2/6
Jewish students were personally degraded as faculty turned the classroom into a kangaroo court, putting Israeli students in particular on trial for their identity in front of their peers. 2/6
Faculty also used tropes to attack Jewish donors as "laundering blood money" and portray Jews as part of a system of "white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism."
@Columbia not only tolerated antisemitism, it hired and platformed faculty who masked it in academic jargon. 3/6
@Columbia not only tolerated antisemitism, it hired and platformed faculty who masked it in academic jargon. 3/6
A @Columbia faculty member READ A CONFIDENTIAL STUDENT EMAIL aloud in class. This is not only a grotesque violation of student privacy, it breaks all student-teacher trust.
He weaponized the power imbalance of the classroom to punish dissent and silence Jewish students. 4/6
He weaponized the power imbalance of the classroom to punish dissent and silence Jewish students. 4/6
Faculty also promoted antisemitic encampments; some moved classes there knowing "Zionists were not welcome."
The message: if you're Jewish or Israeli, your access to equal education at @Columbia is conditional—on your silence, your politics, and your willingness to be excluded. 5/6
The message: if you're Jewish or Israeli, your access to equal education at @Columbia is conditional—on your silence, your politics, and your willingness to be excluded. 5/6
We wish we could say @Columbia has moved past this. But the recent promotions of MULTIPLE faculty members involved in exactly some of the egregious incidents tell us otherwise. Columbia just got an F grade from @StopAntisemites. They deserve it.
Read the full report :
6/6columbia.edu/content/report…
Read the full report :
6/6columbia.edu/content/report…
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