Three Columbia deans placed on leave for mocking Jewish students via text messages

Columbia University placed three deans on leave after they sent text messages mocking Jewish students for complaining about their safety on campus during a panel in May.

A graduate in the crowd took photos of administrators sending messages to each other during the event, which the Washington Free Beacon obtained and published last week.

“When panelists candidly assessed the climate facing Jewish students, Colombia’s top officials responded with ridicule and vitriol, dismissing claims of anti-Semitism,” the report said.

It is worth noting that administrators used the “vomit emoji” to allay the concerns of Jewish students:

The three suspended administrators are Susan Chang-Kim, associate dean and chief administrative officer; Cristen Kromm, dean of undergraduate student life; and Matthew Patashnick, associate dean for student and family support.

A university spokesperson confirmed the news of the suspension to the New York Times.

Still, administrators are a manifestation of a broader culture at Columbia University in which anti-Semitism is rampant.

A university task force released a document this week describing a pattern of “harassment, intimidation, discrimination and exclusion of Jewish students by professors and peers” at the university.

The report details an incident in which one professor allegedly told students to ignore the mainstream media following Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 because “Jews own” the press.

“Other incidents involved students wearing Jewish symbols who had them torn from their bodies. Some were expelled from student clubs to which they belonged because they did not want to participate in group actions and statements against Israel’s right to exist,” the report said.

And then there are the 31 anti-Israel protesters in Colombia who had their charges dropped Thursday for hacking New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, despite storming Hamilton Hall, smashing a window with a hammer and displaying a huge flag calling for an “intifada.” from the second floor window.

Michael Nussbaum, a 25-year member of the Council on Jewish Community Relations in New York, called Bragg’s decision “a green light for chaos and a green light for destruction of property” insofar as it targets Jews.

Nobody is above the law am I right?

Columbia University’s placing three deans on leave is perhaps the first real step the university has taken against rising anti-Semitism since October 7.

And it’s not that we want the university to fire deans. NO.

However, we would like the university to take obvious contempt for Jewish students as seriously as false contempt for black, gay, Muslim and transgender students.

A spokesman for Columbia University released the following statement regarding the decision to place officials on leave:

“We are committed to combating anti-Semitism and taking lasting, concrete actions to ensure that Columbia becomes a campus where Jewish students and all members of our community feel safe, valued and can thrive.”

If so, Columbia must acknowledge the reason for the normalization of anti-Semitism at Ivy League universities. The reason is Marxism.

Marx’s idea that the world is divided between the oppressed and the oppressor is a catalyst for how Columbia students and administrators seek to dismiss the concerns of Jewish students.

In their view, Jews are the persecutors and Palestinians are the persecuted – as if the latter’s struggles were the result of the former’s exploitation.

Similarly, BLM, another Marxist movement, educates its followers to believe that the black struggle is the fault of their former white oppressors.

For more on this topic, see our column “Anti-Semitism in US Colleges Is Rooted in the Same Marxist Concept as BLM.”

#JewishAndWhiteSafetyMattersToo.