Columbia University president Nemat “Minouche” Shafik said classes would be held virtually Monday and the school is planning to increase security on campus adding 35 security guards and more than 100 other safety-related personnel.
The move comes after days of campus unrest as pro-Palestinian protestors using violent and threatening language create a threat to Jewish students.
Columbia University students calling for the destruction of Israel and chanting, “Hamas makes us proud, kill another soldier now.”
Truly disgusting.
The school’s leadership needs to condemn this blatantly anti-Jewish hate in the strongest possible terms. pic.twitter.com/4mQXqRxHhJ
— Rep. Vern Buchanan (@VernBuchanan) April 22, 2024
In some cases, students are identifying with the terror group that attacked Israel, chanting “We are Hamas.” In other cases, Jewish students are being told to “go back to Poland” and “stop killing children.”
According to a shocking poll by Summit.org, 47 percent of Gen Zers believe that Israel’s military campaign against Hamas unjust.
“It is mindboggling to watch students and professors on campus openly calling for violence and terrorism against Jews and Americans, including chants of ‘Death to Israel’ and ‘Death to America,'” Duvi Honig, founder and chief executive officer of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, wrote for Israel
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