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March 13, 2025
Columbia University Has Abandoned Its Obligation to Protect Jewish Students from Harassment, Discrimination and Antisemitism
Columbia University has a known antisemitism problem. It has cultivated professors, such as the late professor of comparative English literature, Edward Said, and his many acolytes, such as Joseph Massad, Rashid Khalidi, Joseph Albernaz and Ruairidh MacLeod, among others. These professors use their perches on their ivory towers to indoctrinate their students against the one Jewish state in the world, the state of Israel, and to project onto Israel all of the problems that they see in their own nations. They have inverted the equation and made Israel appear, in the eyes of their students, as the responsible party for the barbaric atrocities that Hamas terrorists had committed on October 7, 2023. They have created an atmosphere of frenzied hatred against their Jewish students, where many of our students feel bullied, harassed, isolated, alone and frightened.
This toxic environment makes learning inaccessible. When one is afraid to cross Broadway or Amsterdam Avenue, the campus or even the quad showing one’s true identity, by wearing a yarmulke on one’s head or a star of David around one’s neck without being assaulted. There is a word for that: It is called “antisemitism.”
Two days after the abhorrent attacks of October 7^th, when women and men were forcibly raped, babies burned in front of their parents, parents tied to chairs and murdered in front of their children, Students for Justice in Palestine had posters praising the Hamas terrorists. Photos of the kidnapped hostages were ripped down. “Apartheid tents” went up in April of 2024, and persisted throughout the spring and summer.
This did not begin, however, on October 7^th. This started in 1978 when Edward Said first penned “Orientalism”. It metastasized with books such as Rashid Khalidi’s “The Iron Cage”, “The Hundred Years War on Palestine,” and “Resurrecting Empire”, (in which he fallaciously argues that was offered to the Palestinians at Camp David was so miniscule it is not even worth mentioning); Joseph Massad’s “Islam in Liberalism” , “Desiring Arabs”, and “The Persistence of the Palestinian Question.”
All of this gets quoted and re-quoted and takes on the air of genuine scholarship when their semi-scholarship is based upon half-truths, semi-truths or total distortions--all for the purpose of whitewashing the cause to destroy the one Jewish state in the world.
This all came to a predictable head last Saturday night, when a former Columbia student, Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by ICE authorities. Mahmoud Khalil, a strong pro-Hamas activist, has been a part of Columbia University’s Apartheid Divest organization, which according to the Jerusalem Post, “perceives itself as a revolutionary force working toward the destruction of the United States and Israel.”
While many in one party see this as a “free speech issue”, there is a red line that stops when one is advocating for the overthrow of the very country that has granted that former student a visa. There is also a red line that stops when one is harassing an ethnic, religious or national minority in that host country. One has got to invoke a thought experiment and simply insert the word, “black”, “Hispanic” , “gay” or “transgender” where one has harassed and isolated Jewish students, and one would see just how many minutes would transpire before that professor would be fired or that student would be expelled.
Living in the United States is a privilege. One cannot use the very same liberties granted in this country to overthrow its government. Mahmoud Khalil, and any other student who uses the privilege of being hosted in this great nation to overthrow it, or any of its allies, should be expelled from the United States immediately.
Sarah N. Stern is Founder and President of EMET, a thinktank and policy institute in Wahington, DC.
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