ANTI-SEMITIC ANARCHY ON CAMPUS: Columbia Univ. Rabbi Tells Jewish Students to Leave “as Soon as Possible” to Ensure Safety

“Jesus said, They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they (antisemites) have not known the Father, nor me.” – John 16:2-3

“Satan stood up against Israel.” – 1st Chronicles 21:1

FOX News reports: The Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University and Barnard College sent a message recommending Jewish students leave campus and go home as anti-Israel agitators have continued an encampment on campus and have been caught on camera espousing full-on support for terrorism and supporting violence toward Jewish students.

In a WhatsApp message sent to hundreds of students before the start of Passover, Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of OU-LJIC at Columbia, told them to leave “as soon as possible” until the situation improves, noting that “what we are witnessing in and around campus is terrible and tragic.”

“The events of the last few days, and especially last night, have made it clear that Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy,” Buechler wrote. “It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved.”

The rabbi added, “It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus. No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school.”

House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Sunday demanded Columbia University President Nemat Shafik to immediately resign given how Columbia’s leadership “has clearly lost control of its campus” within the last 24 hours, “putting Jewish students’ safety at risk.”

Stefanik said Columbia leadership’s hours of preparation for their testimony before the House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing last week “clearly was an attempt to cover up for their abject failure to enforce their own campus rules and protect Jewish students on campus.”

Despite Shafik allowing the NYPD on campus the day after her testimony before Congress, where the lawmakers grilled her about a lack of consequences for antisemitism at the school, the more than 100 people arrested and suspended from the university on Thursday have since been released from custody.

The anti-Israel encampment on the locked campus remains as police officers look on from across the gates.

Video circulating online appear to pass the threshold of simply supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement or “human rights” pleas for Palestinians in Gaza, as their speakers describe the Columbia encampment as a training ground for “fighters” and have praised the Oct. 7 attacks, when Hamas terrorists slaughtered nearly 1,200 Jews and took over 240 hostages.

Beyond “Free Palestine,” demonstrators’ chants have included “Al-Qassam you make us proud, kill another soldier now!” “We say justice, you say how. Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!” and “Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too!”

One anti-Israel agitator held a sign that read, “Al-Qasam’s next targets,” while pointing at Jewish students who were waving the Israeli flag. The Al-Qassam Brigade is the military wing of Hamas.

Another video showed demonstrators shouting at Jewish students who were leaving campus, “Go back to Europe!”… (Continue reading)