"On Monday, a group of dozens of faculty members at Columbia University in New York signed and published a letter supporting the right of students on their campus to protest against Israel and support Hamas. The letter caught fire in the media and plenty of people noticed. Some of those people turned out to be the rest of the faculty on the campus who had not signed the letter. They quickly realized that they were now the center of national attention, particularly after attacks on Jewish students and threats of violence were breaking out at Columbia. They hastily penned their own letter yesterday, describing how they were “appalled” by all of the antisemitism on display at their university. Will that be enough to stem the damage to the institution? (NY Post)
More than 200 faculty members at Columbia University said Tuesday they were “appalled by the spate of antisemitic incidents” on the Manhattan campus, a day after scores of their colleagues signed a letter defending students who supported Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 terror attack.
The new letter came after Jewish students rallied on campus to blast the administration’s “inaction” on what they called an “unsafe” atmosphere in the weeks since the attack, due to at least one attack on an Israeli student, death threats and rampant hate speech and vandalism.
While the faculty members agree “there should be robust debate about complex and difficult issues” concerning the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, they say “there is no excuse for Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israeli civilians.”
"As walkbacks go, I suppose this was about the best they could do. The phrase “no excuse” draws a fairly strong red line in the sand. It was perhaps somewhat weakened by the rest of the first two paragraphs where they included the obligatory support of “robust debate” over what they describe as a “complex and difficult” issue in Israel and Gaza. (Read the full letter here.)" . . .
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