Columbia University moved its classes online after days of anti-Israel protests roiled its New York City campus and prompted condemnation from the White House and City Hall.
Columbia University professor Shai Davidai, who has been critical of the school’s response to anti-Israel protests, said he was blocked from entering the main campus.
The president made the statement after a rabbi encouraged Jewish students to leave campus amid safety concerns. Columbia’s Monday classes will be held virtually.
David Jonah Lederer, a Jewish student at Columbia University, joins CNN’s Abby Phillip and describes the high tensions on campus at Columbia University. The situation at Columbia escalated in recent days as pro-Palestinian protests on and near campus surged.
The demonstrations are just the latest cultural flashpoint over the Israel-Hamas war, which continues to pose a major threat to the president's reelection prospects.
As anti-Israel protests on Columbia University’s campus devolved into anti-Jewish hate, President Biden’s Department of Education Secretary has remained silent.
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President Joe Biden delivered a qualified denunciation of anti-Israel protests on college campuses, voicing support for the Palestinian people as he condemned the wave of antisemitism facing Jewish students.
These tensions have been exploited and amplified by individuals who are not affiliated with Columbia who have come to campus to pursue their own agendas. We need a reset.” Columbia, like many universities,
I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” Last year, amid protests on campus in response to the October 7 attack in Israel, Mr Biden revealed a series of actions to combat antisemitism on college campuses.
That Jews were made to feel unsafe to walk the Columbia University campus Passover eve in 2024, fearing risk of assault from unchecked promoters of genocidal jihadism and the destruction of Israel, America and the Judeo-Christian West,
Columbia University faculty members are staging a demonstration in support of student pro-Palestine protestors as a rabbi warns Jewish students to leave campus. Students at Columbia ramped up pro-Palestinian protests and encampments last week after school officials testified before Congress about potential antisemitism on their campus.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) condemned the “antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus” in a statement Sunday, pointing to a number of examples of what he described as “hate speech” against Jews.
More than half of the Senate GOP conference insisted the Biden administration “take action” Tuesday to safeguard Jewish college students across the country and restore order amid a spate of anti-Israel protests on campus.
Protests over the Israel - Gaza war are dividing a growing number of college campuses across the country with charges of antisemitism permeating campuses.
A Columbia University professor who has been a vocal critic of the administration’s response to the ongoing anti-Israel student protests was barred from campus Monday after he tried to lead a pro-Jewish rally at the Ivy League college.
Columbia University will hold classes virtually on Monday amid ongoing unrest and heightened concern for Jewish students’ safety on campus. The school’s president, Minouche Shafik, announced