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Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that have raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover begins.

Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover begins.

Columbia President Minouche Shafik said in a statement the decision was made to “deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps.”

The move underscores how tense the situation has become at the Ivy League school and the enormous challenge facing Shafik to get the situation under control.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      31·
      8 months ago

      Sort of hard to know on an individual level, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be a widespread problem. I will say I’ve encountered it a couple of times on Lemmy in the past few weeks. Thankfully, they were pretty swiftly dealt with by admins.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      44·
      8 months ago

      The protests against Israel are a perfect cover for anti semitic assholes to spread their hate. I live in an area with a large Jewish population. Plenty of anti semitic shit has popped up, the most blatant being swastikas painted outside of Jewish schools with “free gaza” tagged along side it.

      I’m actually shocked to have someone say theyve seen no antisemitism in these protests. Do you live in an area with few or no Jewish people?

        • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
          33·
          8 months ago

          Considering you avoided my question, I bet it’s safe to assume you don’t live around many Jewish people.

          Can’t see things happening at the protests if you don’t see the protests at all. Taps forehead

          I mean, ffs, even this article is quoting someone from the pro Palestine protests that is trying to distance themselves from the anti semitic outsiders who have latched onto it.

            • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
              22·
              8 months ago

              you pivoted from the protests

              lol “Free Gaza” is not a protest because, well, it was done in graffiti!

              You also ignored that, in the article we are responding to, from the mouths of pro-Palenstine protestors, that it is happening.

              There is no doubt at this point that the claim of “refrain from being dishonest” was, no surprise, a projection.

                • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
                  21·
                  8 months ago

                  You can’t on one one say jewish students fear for their safety while on the other hand the jewish students are oarticipating in the anti-genocide protest…

                  False dichotomy and putting words in my mouth. Well played.

                  There is zero evidence presented in the article that jewish students are unsafe or that there’s anti-semitism being tolerated by the protestors.

                  Funny, when you accused me earlier of “pivoting,” it’s like you were warning me that you were going to pivot when the point became untenable.