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Not long after the bodies of Shiri Bibas, and her sons Ariel, age 4, and Kfir, age 9 months were being lowered into the ground, the students at Barnard College were at it, once again. Concealing their faces with masks and keffiyahs, banging on drums and shouting “Intifada revolution”, “Free, free Palestine”, and “No more Zionist occupation”, a mass of pro-Palestinian students took over Barnard’s Milbank Hall.


Why has, in some Kafkaesque inversion of history, the evil of October 7^th become a celebrated cause among our students?


The mob prevented students in Milbank Hall from attending class.


The incident resulted in a 41-year-old employee of Columbia sustaining significant injuries and requiring hospitalization.


The reason for this protest was allegedly the expulsion of two keffiyah-clad, pro-Palestinian students, who had disrupted a class on Modern Israeli History, passing out flyers on which were written, “Crush Zionism” depicting a black boot crushing a Star of David; another flyer showed a burning Israeli flag, stating, “Burn Zionism to the ground.” The professor, Avi Shilon, went so far as to allow the disrupters into the class, but they refused. (Please see here: Instagram ([link removed]) .)


Why must our Jewish, Israeli, and Zionist students be made to feel ashamed of their very identities? What trauma are they enduring, almost daily, that is interfering with their ability to focus on classroom instruction, when they must cross the campus or the quad where there are constant anti-Israel demonstrations?


Why are so many professors, such as Columbia’s Joseph Massad, allowed to continue to teach at Columbia, someone who consistently describes Israel as a “racist, colonial-settler state?” Why are scores of professors such as these allowed to indoctrinate their students across the United States with their academic biases that describe Israel as a state that deserves absolutely no right to exist?


Would we tolerate such actions against any other minority group? Would a racist, white professor be able to stand up and condemn black, Hispanic or gay students and make them feel ashamed of their very identities? Would he be allowed to prohibit students from attending classes because of a raucous demonstration blocking the halls?


This is why EMET has worked for over a decade to introduce the Antisemitism Awareness Act. We have worked with Representatives Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), as well as Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) to ensure its introduction and have gathered signatures to ensure its passage. Please see here: Reps. Lawler, Gottheimer, Miller, and Moskowitz Reintroduce Bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act to Protect Jewish Students on College Campuses ([link removed])


EMET has stood behind the Antisemitism Awareness Act from the very beginning and have consistently worked with many other organizations to get them on board. This will give Jewish and Zionist students the same rights as any other minority group, using the definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.


No student should be made to feel bullied, isolated, intimidated or threatened because of who they are; because of their core identities. This Act, which will give principals and university presidents a way of recognizing antisemitism and not to confuse bullying of our students with “free speech issues” will help to prevent our students from being victims of antisemitism.


If you are worried about your child or grandchild in our nation’s schools, or about the very future of Zionism and the Jewish state; if you do not want future generations to be infected with the scourge of anti-Zionism, then you have a moral obligation to support the hard work of EMET.


Thank you very much.
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