There are growing calls for the temporary closure of schools plagued by anti-Israel riots, which increasingly include explicit threats of violence against Jews and others who do not support the metastatic movement. Despite this, most universities continue to pursue a no-trespassing approach to encampments. .
“Columbia should not only completely close down its campus and move all learning to remote learning, but also padlock the campus and arrest all trespassers,” said “Columbia,” a human rights lawyer and founder of the Campaign to End Jewish Hatred. said Brooke Goldstein, executive director of the Lawfare Project. . “Other campuses should address this issue, too. America’s schools should resume in-person learning until all students are safe and a plan is in place to reduce the aggressiveness of radical protesters.” do not have.”
Among other high-profile incidents, University of Michigan student Salma Hammami, who heads one of the school’s “pro-Palestinian” groups, accused “all individuals who support the Zionist state” in an Instagram post. He called for “death and worse.” last month.
Mr. Hamy remains on campus and remains deeply involved in the ongoing unrest, serving as president of the Student Alliance for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) group, the University’s Student Chapter for Justice in Palestine.
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An anti-Israel encampment can be seen on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Monday. (Josh Brown)
Calling for “immediate action” against those who violate the school’s code of conduct, the Anti-Defamation League sent a letter to University of Michigan President Santa Ono last month highlighting Hammy’s comments. The school has not disclosed what measures it has taken in response.
“The University of Michigan is committed to combating anti-Semitism, which is the antithesis of everything we stand for as a community,” a University of Michigan spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “Earlier this year, a message was posted on Instagram that caused fear and pain throughout our community. We unequivocally condemned this message in a memo to our campus community.
“This message does not represent who we are or who we want to be. Given privacy concerns, we are unable to share information regarding student disciplinary actions. ”
Similarly, students at Columbia University, where one of the largest anti-Israel camps still exists, apologized Friday after the incident. Newly re-released video The footage showed students declaring, “Zionists have no right to live.”
Kaimani James’ remarks were made during a January meeting with university officials, which James livestreamed and shared on social media.
“Zionists are not entitled to live comfortably, much less Zionists are entitled to live,” James said in a video that recently went viral on social media. “We are so comfortable accepting that Nazis don’t deserve to live, fascists don’t deserve to live, racists don’t deserve to live, Zionists don’t deserve to live in this world. the same as.”
but statement The document, released early Friday morning, claims James “misspoke on the spur of the moment” and “was wrong.”
“Every member of our community has the right to feel safe, even if they are unqualified,” James wrote in a statement, adding that he also condemned “far-right agitators” who have been through months of tough battles. I did,” he said. [his] I tracked my social media feeds until I found clips that had been edited out of context. ”
A Columbia University spokesperson declined to say whether James would face disciplinary action, but said in a statement to Fox News Digital that “Mr. “Violence and language are unacceptable and violate university policy.” ”
The spokesperson added: “While we do not comment on individual cases, violations of our student conduct policy will be reviewed and disciplinary action will be taken.”
Anti-Israel protests have spread rapidly in recent weeks as most schools refuse to take action despite threats against members of the Jewish community. (Getty Images)
But as similar statements by students at Columbia University and the University of Michigan become increasingly common, legal experts like Goldstein argue that deploying the National Guard to college campuses is becoming necessary. I started.
“The #EndJewHatred civil rights movement began in late October 2023, when mobs of pro-Hamas extremists spread aggressive protests from university campuses to city streets and began threatening and even physically attacking Jews. has called for the National Guard to be deployed to end Jewish hatred. We are safe,” Goldstein said.
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Goldstein said the decision to deploy the National Guard was not an “escalation,” as most schools responding to protests have refused to enforce their own rules, and that it was a “keep Americans safe.” “This is a necessary and appropriate response.”
“Universities are abdicating their obligations not only to students but also to the community because of their reluctance to enforce rules and policies,” she said. “As a result, violence has spread far and wide, and half-hearted and occasional arrests of perpetrators have not been able to end or stop this illegal activity. It is time to bring in the National Guard.…Pro-terrorist support Violence from the Middle East to Central America. ”
Goldstein also suggested that schools that are unable to deal with large-scale anti-Israel protests and maintain the safety of students on their campuses should consider closing their campuses “permanently.”
Ilya Shapiro, director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, said schools that handle encampments already have rules in place for dealing with riots, and administrators need to aggressively enforce them. He pointed out that only.
“All schools, certainly schools that have been in the news for these encampments or potential encampments or protests, have rules in place to regulate protests,” Shapiro said. “That means you have wide latitude to express your opinions, distribute pamphlets, and do all sorts of things as long as it doesn’t interfere with the institution’s mission or programs.
“There are rules against camping and other people’s work being disrupted. There are rules against chanting that is disrupting classes and other educational programs. So all these rules are simply We just need to enforce it, not others.”
On Wednesday, anti-Israel agitators marched on the University of Texas. (Jay Janner/American Politician)
He added: “We’re not dealing with some thorny issue of public policy that’s hard to understand. We have all the tools, but the problem is that leaders in places like Colombia… It is simply a refusal to enforce the rules already in place.” ”
Earlier this week, Shapiro told Fox that a request by the governor or the Biden administration to deploy the National Guard to respond to protests would be a legitimate step to restore “public order.”
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“And the justification for that would be Title VI, which guarantees equal educational opportunity,” Shapiro said at the time. “And Jewish students are being denied that, and the argument is that Columbia has failed in its obligation to enforce it.”
Title VI, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, states that “no person in the United States shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, or be denied participation because of race, color, or national origin. shall not be refused.” Being discriminated against under a program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. ”
