None of this yr’s graduates of an elite Higher East Facet Jewish highschool will probably be attending Columbia College’s premier liberal arts faculty for the primary time in many years a minimum of partly due to antisemitism.
“For the primary time in over 20 years, we won’t have a Ramaz graduate enrolling in Columbia Faculty,” Ramaz stated in a press release Sunday to The Submit.
One Ramaz scholar enrolled at Columbia’s college of Common Research, and three college students enrolled in Columbia-affiliated Barnard Faculty for ladies — however none on the faculty, it stated.
Ramaz indicated that anti-Israel protests and hostility towards Jewish college students at Columbia through the earlier semester had a consider its graduates not attending Columbia Faculty.
“Ramaz offers as a lot data as potential concerning the scenario at varied faculties of curiosity, and now we have given precedence to points surrounding the horrific rise in antisemitic situations at some faculties, in order that our college students and their households are in a position to make knowledgeable selections about which faculties are proper for them,” a Ramaz rep stated in an e-mail.
Rory Lancman, a prime Jewish civil-rights activist whose two daughters graduated from Ramaz and who’s a Columbia Regulation College graduate, stated he wouldn’t suggest Jewish college students to use or attend Columbia in the intervening time due to Jew-bashing.
“Jewish households are voting with their ft and selecting faculties and universities that take antisemitism critically,” stated Lancman, a former Queens metropolis councilman and the present director of company initiatives and senior counsel on the Louis Brandeis Middle for Human Rights Underneath Regulation.
“I might not suggest my daughters to use to Columbia or different faculties that aren’t dedicated to guard them as Jews,” he stated.
The Ivy League college in Morningside Heights remains to be grappling with turmoil that has rocked the establishment to its core.
Embattled Columbia President Minouche Shafik resigned final week and is heading again to England after main the elite establishment for the previous yr, which was marked by fixed — and generally harmful — anti-Israel protests.
Shafik’s resignation comes only one week after three college deans additionally resigned from Columbia following the publicity of their “very troubling” textual content chain that disparaged Israeli and Jewish college students’ fears of rising antisemitism on campus.
An enormous mob of masked pro-terror rioters broke right into a Columbia tutorial constructing and seized it in April, draping it with an enormous flag calling for “intifada.”
One stunning video captured a hammer-wielding demonstrator smashing by means of a glass-paneled door and inserting what gave the impression to be a motorbike lock round its handles.
Lots of of scholars have been arrested on trespassing fees for refusing to pack up a campus encampment, triggering the constructing takeover. However lots of the vandals, rioters and trespassers afterward escaped legal fees.
The protests and anti-Israel vitriol was fueled by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of Israel, the place the phobia insurgents slaughtered 1,200 folks within the Jewish state and triggered the continued warfare in Gaza.
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