Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Columbia cracks down — not on the antisemites, but their critic

Columbia cracks down — not on the antisemites, but their critic


https://nypost.com/2024/10/16/opinion/columbia-cracks-down-not-on-the-antisemites-but-their-critic/

Columbia University is only getting sicker.

In the latest news, it has banned Business School prof Shai Davidai from campus, supposedly for harassing students on Oct. 7 — the anniversary of Hamas’ terror attack.

It’s pretty obvious that the real problem is that Davidai keeps getting in the faces of the campus Jew-haters as they demonstrate.

Meanwhile, no sanction at all for the keffiyeh-clad students who flooded campus that day chanting “resistance is glorious” and transparently antisemitic taunts.

This comes a few months after three deans went on leave after news broke of their mocking text exchanges during a panel discussion about antisemitism on their campus.


Joseph Sorett, the dean of Columbia College, was in on the group chat, but somehow is still on the job.

In other Columbia news, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest radicals now say they’re sorry they apologized for Khymani James — a Students for Justice in Palestine member who said, “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”

Mind you, he (one of several pronouns James accepts) said that at a disciplinary hearing.

At one point, he expressed regret, too — but no more, and his fellow CUAD fanatics are standing by him, citing the “anti-blackness and queerphobia that Khymani experienced” after their initial disavowal.

None of them seem to mind Hamas’ “queerphobia”: They still praise the terrorists’ “historic act of resistance” Oct. 7.

And Columbia hasn’t expelled a single one of the rioters who broke into Hamilton Hall in April, and probably never will.

Nope: The school’s leaders are just silencing Shai Davidai.

They couldn’t be sending a clearer message.

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