On May 31, Columbia University hosted a panel conversation during romance trip called” Jewish Life on Campus: Past, Present, and Coming”. The screen was responding to various racist acts committed by students and faculty during the past month ‘ pro-Hamas demonstrations.  ,
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Some of the highest-ranking school officials, however, took the opportunity during the board discourse to give clearly racist texts back and forth. The Washington Free Beacon received the unpleasant texts from a classmate sitting behind one of the texters.
Cristen Kromm, previously the professor of undergraduate student life, Matthew Patashnick, previously the associate professor for student and community support, and Susan Chang-Kim, previously the evil professor and general operational agent, were all asked to step down from their jobs after their writings became public.  ,
Another executive, Josef Sorett, the dean of Columbia College, was even asked to step down. But since he made a groveling apology, claiming in effect, that he did n’t have an antisemitic bone in his body, he was allowed to continue in his job.
” I continue to learn from this knowledge and understand the impact that my writings, as well as those between my team, have had on our community”, Sorett said in the explanation, sent Monday night. ” We must and will do better, on behalf of the entire Columbia area”.
It is not in dispute that the four officials sent the scriptures. The mystery is why they have n’t been fired. And why did Dr. Sorett continue to work when his writings were just as grating as those of the others?
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Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia, wrote a letter saying she would carry the superintendents accountable for their deeds.
” The affair revealed behavior and attitudes that were not only unethical, but also, dangerously touched on old racist themes”, Shafik said in the Monday statement.  ,
” Touched on old racist motifs”? You decide.
Two of the officials, Kromm and Patashnick, individually suggested that Jews were using their prosperity—”$$$$”, as Kromm put it—to spark anxiety about anti-Semitism, while a fourth, Chang-Kim, said that Israeli students ‘ concerns come “from for a place of privilege”.
Other messages used vomit emojis to describe a Columbia rabbi’s op-ed and expressed disdain for the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Orly Mishan, who said that her own daughter was “hiding in plain sight” at Columbia.
” I’m going to throw up”, Chang-Kim wrote as Mishan was speaking.
Sorett himself joined in the pile-on, indicating that he found the panel “difficult to listen to” and endorsing a sarcastic message about the university’s Hillel director, Brian Cohen, after Cohen said on the panel that his” soul has been broken” by the protests on Columbia’s campus. Calls to kill Jewish students and “burn Tel Aviv to the ground” were among those protests.
” LMAO”, Sorrett wrote.
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Arrogant, elitist, and antisemitic — it’s no wonder Columbia is a rat’s nest of hate.
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What happens now? President Shafik claims that the incident is being “investigated”. What’s there to “investigate”? The texts are in plain English. The texters are known. The four administrators are guilty of more than just “disturbing speech,” unless Columbia has changed its rules against hate speech. The four offenders should have been immediately fired rather than simply “relieved” of their duties if Columbia wants to set an example for its students.
I think it is very likely that after a” thorough investigation” of three or four months, the three deans will quietly resume their previous duties and all will be forgotten.
Where’s a “vomit emoji” when you need one?
