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Noah Otte's avatar

It’s so sad! Columbia used to be one of the most prestigious universities in the world! They boast alumni such as Alexander Hamilton, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama, James Cagney, Oscar Hammerstein II, Warren Buffett, Amelia Earhart, Zora Neale Huston, Lou Gehrig, Sandy Koufax, Paul Robeson, Robert Kraft, Wild Bill Donovan, Madeline Albright, Alexander Haig, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Ira Gershwin, and Art Garfunkel among many others and now they’ve become a complete joke and a factory for Jihadists, antisemites and radical leftists. It’s very telling that Dr. Berman-Gladstone made his syllabus available immediately and was very transparent and Dr. Joseph Massad never responded and won’t share. Why? What’s he got to hide? It’s because he’s teaching hate in his class and he knows it and he doesn’t want the public backlash or negative media attention. Dr. Benjamin Berman-Gladstone shows is the right way to teach a course on Zionism, show the perspectives of Jews from all over the globe not just the Ashkenazi community. These cowardly students hiding their faces, handing out flyers the students will simply throw in the trash before they leave, interrupting class, and repeating the same slogans over and over again like robots programmed to do so shouldn’t have been allowed. Where is campus security? Why aren’t they patrolling the hallways? Columbia is gradually dying as is all the Ivy League schools. The antisemitism so prevalent on campus is one of the many reasons why. It’s no wonder that when they held fundraisers recently they didn’t get as many donations as they thought they would. Professor Shilon was much too calm. He should’ve told them to get out or he was calling the police. They should all be charged with disturbing the peace, criminal harassment and assault and battery for approaching the Professor and his students with cameras and sticking them in their face. Also, what’s with the photography session? If I had to guess I’d say they were taking pictures of the students so they could remember their faces, so they could harass, doxx and threaten them later on. He should’ve taken the camera away and tore out the film. This incident needs to be investigated at once by the local police, the FBI and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. Every student in this video should be identified, this video sent to their employer and expelled from school. I hope the ADL, Simon Wiesenthal Center, StandWithUs, and Stop Antisemitism will get in on the act and take a stand on the Professor and these students’ behalf. As to Dr. Massad, he should be fired immediately by the university and banned from ever setting foot on campus ever again!

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Great essay. Couple of thoughts. I’ve read that not only did Massad praise the October 7 massacre but he also holds a bizarre idea that Jews of today are not related to Jews of ancient times.

Also on the ‘invasion’ of Dr Shiloh’s class. Tne students in kaffiyeh looks like idiots. The students in the class were ripping the handouts from the wall, telling them to show their faces, videoing them, balling up their disgusting handouts. The students in kaffiyehs were reading from a script and looked too stupid to even be Columbia students. Maybe Shiloh didn’t take a strong enough stance but honestly I don’t think tnr pro Hamas students had a success.

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