A Jewish professor at Columbia University was barred from campus and his official faculty ID deactivated Monday.
Shai Davidai, an Israeli-born, pro-Jewish assistant professor at Columbia Business School in New York City, said he showed up to the school’s Morningside Heights campus and swiped his ID badge to get in, only for the card reader to read, “Deactivated.” When he asked why his card wasn’t working, he said school administrators told him it was because they “couldn’t guarantee his safety” amid the violent pro-Palestine student protests on campus.
So, who did the school let in? Hundreds of anti-Jew protesters, all of whom had to have IDs to access the campus before tromping all over the school screaming for the death of the Jews and the annihilation of their home country.
David was able to confront of the top school administrators, who couldn't seem to give a good explanation for why the school denied him entry to the school where he teaches, but didn't bar pro-terrorism demonstrators.
"MY card has been deactivated? Why?" - Shai Davidai, Pro-Israel professor at Columbia attempted to swipe his card to go inside the 'Liberated Zone' encampment with his supporters.
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David noted that his ID still works at the school’s Manhattan campus, where he teaches classes.
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“I was just told by [Holloway] that I am [to be] let on the campus of the business school where I’m teaching tomorrow,” he said. “So they are willing to use Jewish brains, but they don’t want to let Jewish people in.”
Several pro-Hamas student protesters - including Rep. inhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi - were arrested late last week after setting up an unauthorized encampment on Columbia’s campus in “solidarity” with Palestinians in Gaza. Activists have screamed for the destruction of Israel, with reports of pro-Hamas flags and signs.
A terrorism threat at Columbia University.
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This person, face covered with a keffiyeh, stands in front of pro-Israel students and threatens an attack on them by the Palestinian terrorists of Hamas's Al Qassam Brigade, who perpetrated massacres and brutal sexual crimes on Oct 7. pic.twitter.com/hnbhTI4G3L
The antiSemitic hate spewed toward Jewish students and faculty on campus has gotten so bad, one rabbi at Columbia Jewish students at both Columbia and its sister school, Barbard College, to go home until the protests die down.
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