'Deactivated': Columbia Locks Out Jewish Professor

Davidai said that the university told him they banned him from campus because they could not ensure his safety. This followed a Columbia rabbi telling Jewish students to leave campus for their own safety.

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The most basic obligation of a university is to ensure the safety of its faculty and students from physical assaults. If there is a problem on campus, it is found in those students or faculty who would threaten a Jewish professor if he were to walk on campus.

This is not part of the debate over what language is considered a threat or hateful rhetoric. This is barring a professor because his status alone makes his presence inflammatory or dangerous. I cannot imagine how the solution was barring the potential victim of religious-based bigotry and violence.

Ed Morrissey

Gee, I can certainly imagine how Columbia president Nemak Shafik and/or her administration made that decision. It's precisely what they want -- a campus free of Jews. Why else would Shafik allow these protests to turn into intimidation campaigns? Why else would faculty join these demonstrations in support of those suspended for refusing to disperse? 

This is the solution they wanted all along. Let's call it a final solution, because that's precisely what Shafik and Columbia's elites are producing. 

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