On Thursday’s MSNBC show “Alex Wagner Tonight,” Rep. Jamal Bowman (D-N.Y.) said that according to “so-called pro-Israel students” at Columbia University he met during a visit to campus last week, they Anti-Semitism is a problem faced on campus that has been “minimal and exaggerated by the media. We feel uncomfortable, but we do not feel unsafe. He added that Columbia is a place of “critical thinking, critical dialogue, critical debate, a place that makes us uncomfortable but moves us forward.” said.
Professor Bowman said: “I also met with so-called pro-Israel students when I was there just to hear about the anti-Semitism they had experienced, but they said it was minimal and that it was overblown by the media. ”, he said. We feel uncomfortable, but not in danger. This is what I was told by them. As a former educator and father of three, my goal is to remind us that Columbia is an institution of higher education. This is a place for critical thinking, critical dialogue, and critical debate that makes us uncomfortable but moves us forward. Our kids aren’t allowed to do that because we over-militarize college campuses. And for me, that’s totally unacceptable. ”
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