Columbia rabbi tells Jewish college students to depart campus, warns that faculty, NYPD ‘can’t assure your security’

Harris Marley

World Courant

The Orthodox rabbi at Columbia College and Barnard School despatched a message recommending Jewish college students depart campus and go dwelling, as anti-Israel agitators have continued an “encampment” on campus and contributors have been caught on digicam espousing full-on help for terrorism and supporting violence in direction of Jewish college students.

In a WhatsApp message despatched to tons of earlier than the beginning of Passover, Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of OU-LJIC at Columbia/Barnard, informed college students to depart “as quickly as potential” till the state of affairs improves, noting that “what we’re witnessing in and round campus is horrible and tragic.”

“The occasions of the previous couple of days, particularly final night time, have made it clear that Columbia College’s Public Security and the NYPD can’t assure Jewish college students’ security within the face of maximum antisemitism and anarchy,” Buechler wrote. “It deeply pains me to say that I might strongly advocate you come back dwelling as quickly as potential and stay dwelling till the truth in and round campus has dramatically improved.” 

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Regardless of Shafik permitting the New York Police Division onto campus the day after her testimony earlier than Congress, the place lawmakers grilled her in regards to the lack of penalties for antisemitism on the Ivy League college, the greater than 100 folks arrested and suspended from the college on Thursday have since been launched from custody. 

The anti-Israel encampment on the locked campus has remained as cops look on from throughout the gates. 

Video circulating on-line seem to move the brink of merely supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) motion or human rights pleas for Palestinians in Gaza, as audio system described the Columbia encampment as a “coaching floor” for “fighters” and have praised the Oct. 7 assaults, when Hamas militants slaughtered practically 1,200 Jews and took over 240 hostages.

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