Nearly two-thirds of Jewish students at Columbia felt unaccepted after Oct. 7 - survey

[Beastly Boy]

Nearly two-thirds of Jewish students at Columbia University reported feeling unaccepted for their religious identity, compared to 15% of students overall, during the school year that included the Hamas onslaught that sparked the war in Gaza, according to a report this week.

Jewish students were by far the most likely to report that political conversations about controversial topics strained their relationships during the 2023-2024 school year. And they were the most likely to say that they felt pressure to conform from their classmates — rather than, say, from their professors or school administrators — about their political beliefs.

The report was the third released by the Columbia University Task Force on Antisemitism, formed amid turmoil over pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests at the Ivy League school in New York City. The first report, released in March 2024, focused on rules about demonstrations, and the second, in August, surveyed Jewish students about their experiences.

The new report is based on an online survey from summer 2024 that asked Columbia students from all backgrounds about their experiences in the preceding school year. The survey was conducted by the Columbia task force in cooperation with the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nearly-two-thirds-of-jewish-students-at-columbia-felt-unaccepted-after-oct-7-survey/


It is remarkable how many Jewish students refuse to see themselves as legitimate targets in criticizing Zionism. A shameless display of Zionists shilling for Netanyahu!

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Unsurprising.

They are all just afraid of "freedom fighter" supporters.

Very few give two shits.

[Zohran25]

2. There is a sizable portion of college Jews that are pro-Palestine.

For all the hoopla about antisemitism among the protestors the critics neglect all the brave Jewish students who are standing up for Palestinians against a nation committing genocide.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. They must be the "one-third".

Always fun to have anti-Semitism 'splained and told how we are "wrong" and who the "good Jews" are.

[Zohran25]

4. It's not antisemitic to oppose apartheid and genocide.

Equating Zionism with Judaism is antisemitic, as it equates an ethnic/religious group with the actions of a country proclaiming itself the Jewish state. The actions of Israel do not represent the Jewish diaspora worldwide, they only represent the actions of a lunatic country hellbent on chaos in the region with their friend the US of A.

[Beastly Boy]

8. It is antisemitic to claim genocide where there is none.

It is an inverted variant of the "great replacement" conspiracy theory - a well established century-old antisemitic trope.

[Zohran25]

13. The international community consensus begs to differ.

The ICJ has arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have issued investigative reports showing Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

[Beastly Boy]

18. There is no cinsensus in the international community, but it has its share of particularly vocal antisemites,

The ICJ prosecutorKarim Khan has arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, on "reasonable grounds to believe" that they "bear criminal responsibility" in certain war crimes, none of which include genocide or apartheid.

Amnesty and HRW are not the competent legal authority in matters of war crimes, so they are free to issue all sorts of irrelevant shit.

[EdmondDantes_]

27. That's a fine distinction you're making

The ICJ has ruled that they can't yet confirm genocide, but that's it's plausible.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227078791/icj-israel-genocide-gaza-palestinians-south-africa

If you're having to justify a position with the court having ruled that Israel has plausibly committed war crimes and genocide, but not definitely, really threading a moral needle. I believe the Bush administration took a similar view on water boarding. Both sides have chosen immoral violence. Unfortunately neither side's supporters can admit to their side's culpability.

And as for dismissing Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch because they have no legal authority so their opinion is meaningless, perhaps we should consider your own lack of legal authority and be equally dismissive of what you say.

[Beastly Boy]

40. The ICJ order:

The Court then turns to the condition of the link between the plausible rights claimed by South Africa and the provisional measures requested.
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The Court considers that, by their very nature, at least some of the provisional measures sought by South Africa are aimed at preserving the plausible rights it asserts on the basis of the Genocide Convention in the present case, namely the right of the Palestinians in Gaza to be protected from acts of genocide and related prohibited acts mentioned in Article III, and the right of South Africa to seek Israel’s compliance with the latter’s obligations under the Convention. Therefore, a link exists between the rights claimed by South Africa that the Court has found to be plausible, and at least some of the provisional measures requested.

https://www.icj-cij.org/node/203454

ICJ repeatedly clarified their position for the media: It is plausible that South Africa has grounds to bring charges, not that their charges are plausible.

I didn't say it, ICJ did.Try to dismiss THAT.

[jrthin]

41. If the animal walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, IT"S A DUCK. nt

[Beastly Boy]

43. Very appropriate. If the animal talks like an antisemite, walks like an antisemite, quacks like an antisemite,

it's an antisemite.

[malaise]

5. African Americans (students and non-students have been ostracized for four centuries

That is all

[Beastly Boy]

10. Indeed.

So you can sympathize with Jewish American students and non-students with a similar history of being discriminated against.

Especially considering that the number antisemitic incidents in the US today exceed racist incidents by a factor of four to one.

[malaise]

12. Jews do not have a similar history in universities

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The entire notion of DEI is to assume we are only there by special favor..

Is there anti-Semitism. Yes - but nothing like our experience certainly not in universities.

[Beastly Boy]

14. You mentioned "students and non-students"

Certainly there is a great deal of similarities between Blacks and Jews in that category.

As far as American education system, one can argue that it is decidedly Euro-centric. In this respect, European Jews (but not Jews from Africa or Asia) have a distinct advantage over African Americans, but it doesn't compare to the advantages of White Anglo-Saxon Christians.

And it begins in grade schools.

[malaise]

16. True but African and Asian Jews also face serious problems

in Israel. Ask the Ethiopians.

[JI7]

17. The African and Asian Jews are some of the most right wing Jews inside and outside Israel

[Beastly Boy]

19. All newly arrived Jews in Israel, no matter where they come from, face serious problems.

Just as all newly arrived immigrants in the US, or any other country in the world do.

Are we done with American universities now?

[BuddhaGirl]

6. When the Shah was overthrown in Iran

I remember lots of Middle Eastern students and those who looked Middle Eastern were targeted and harassed. My ex from Turkey attended college here in CA at that time and experienced it.

[Beastly Boy]

11. I remember those times. The bigots couldn't care less if

the students had nothing to do with the Ayatollahs. And I remember the bigots couldn't tell the difference between an Iranian, a Turk or a Sikh. Pure ignorance usually goes together with the hate.

[Attilatheblond]

15. Before the Shah was overthrown in Iran, I remember EVERY prof and insturctor telling Iranian students NOT to speak

as there were agents of that despot on campus and speaking out would put targets on their backs. It was a tiny, rural community college in California.

People of other nations, faiths, cultures have all had problems on US campuses.

[LexVegas]

7. The far right and far left bend and meet at antisemitism. nt

[tritsofme]

9. That is all.

[Zohran25]

20. The left is not antisemitic.

The people on the left speaking for Palestine are majority not antisemitic. Some of the biggest antisemites are actually fine with Israel as seen with the European far-right parties.

[Beastly Boy]

21. It's the far left. And most are not antisemites, but they tolerate antisemites in their ranks.

[Zohran25]

22. Show me proof of the left tolerating antisemitism.

[Beastly Boy]

23. Here

[Zohran25]

24. Mamdani was trying to explain the origin of the word intifada.

It literally means uprising in Arabic. Good job posting that rotten POS Andrew Cuomo who is one of the legal advisors to Netanyahu against the ICJ ruling.

[JI7]

26. Mamdani should call for all the Islamic nations to be non Islamic

he has a problem with one tiny nation being Jewish but nothing about all thirst Islamic nations.

[Zohran25]

29. Israel is a ethno -supremacist state.

Not any different from Rhodesia or pre-1994 South Africa.

[JI7]

30. They are surrounded by Islamic states that identify as Islamic

[Zohran25]

31. Those are theocracies, not ethno states.

Big difference.

All Jews can become citizens in Israel. The same rule does not apply to a Muslim to say Iran.

[JI7]

36. It's one tiny Jewish state with 25 percent non jews.

Jews from other parts of middle east and africa with Muslim majorities were kicked out.

[Beastly Boy]

28. "Globalize the uprising"

Uprising against whom, and why does it need to be globalized? And why use the Arabic term unless it is meant to refer to what English speakers came to identify with violence and terrorism?

[JI7]

25. The trash that shot the Jewish Couple to death and people justifying it including on this site

[Zohran25]

32. One of the dead was a Christian.

Just because one loon committed crimes does not mean this problem is exclusively to the left.

[JI7]

35. The target was still Jewish people and it wasn't just that one person as he had

supporters including on this site.

[Zohran25]

44. Only one of the target was Jewish.

Even while I condemn such actions they pale compared to the genocide in Gaza that has been funded by the US government and continues to have bipartisan support.

[JI7]

45. He was targeting Jewish people.

[sarisataka]

33. See the DSA rally after October 7

Celebrating the rape, murder and kidnapping done by Hamas

[Oneironaut]

39. This is unfortunately very true.

Jewish people are a favorite target of extremists of all kinds, and, usually for the same brain-dead reasons, e.g. bigoted conspiracies.

[Behind the Aegis]

34. 'Splainin', Squirrels and Strawmen, OH MY!

Always refreshing when the topic is anti-Semitism or concerns of Jews, we are regaled with 'splaining (NO, no silly Jew, I really know what anti-Semitism is and isn't!, like anti-Zionism isn't really anti-Semitc but linking to anti-Semitism is!!) , strawmen (NO! Criticism of Israel isn't anti-Semitic!), and squirrels (Sure Jews have it bad (so they say), but whatabout all these other groups?!).

[Oneironaut]

37. (Not at OP) - I find it wild that people can't hold two ideas at once: Palestinian children don't deserve to be bombed,

AND, Jewish students shouldn't be singled out and harassed (or worse) because of things Israel has done. Associating Jewish students with Israel is blatantly antisemitic. It's frustrating to see people commit to either "side" and resort to absurdities, falling over themselves to justify the terrible things Hamas, some protesters, or Israel have done.

October 7th was an act of evil. Carpet bombing Gaza and killing aid workers is an ongoing act of evil. Israel was the victim on October 7th, and, Palestinian civilians are an ongoing victim of Israel. How are these things so hard to admit?

[Srkdqltr]

38. The problem is with the government in Israel and how people respond to it. Complain to them.

[Beastly Boy]

42. Antisemitisn has been a problem way before people started responding to the government in Israel.

And the parallels between this long history of responses and current responses purporting to be exclusively against the government in Israel are not coincidental. The ones I an talking about parrot the familiar antisemitic tropes, this time masked as criticism of Israel. Or its government. Or Zionism.