{"id":2195169,"date":"2024-03-08T06:02:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T11:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-globalize-the-intifada-an-incitement-to-violence-columbias-anti-semitism-task-force-wont-say\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T06:02:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T11:02:02","slug":"is-globalize-the-intifada-an-incitement-to-violence-columbias-anti-semitism-task-force-wont-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-globalize-the-intifada-an-incitement-to-violence-columbias-anti-semitism-task-force-wont-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8216;Globalize the Intifada&#8217; an Incitement to Violence? Columbia&#8217;s Anti-Semitism Task Force Won&#8217;t Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-globalize-the-intifada-an-incitement-to-violence-columbias-anti-semitism-task-force-wont-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2195169&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>&#8216;Some feel strongly that these are calls to genocide, while others feel strongly that they are not,&#8217; task force writes in first report<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tAnti-Israel rally at Columbia (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In a new report on Columbia University&#8217;s protest policies, the Ivy League school&#8217;s Task Force on Antisemitism declined to say whether calls for &#8220;intifada&#8221; violate school rules, saying that while some students &#8220;feel strongly&#8221; that the chant invokes genocide, others feel strongly that it does not.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/Report_1_Columbia_University%E2%80%99s_Rules_on_Demonstrations_March_04_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>, released Monday, is the task force&#8217;s first attempt to provide recommendations to Columbia&#8217;s leaders regarding their response to rising campus anti-Semitism. Student protesters at Columbia have advocated for terror against Israelis. During a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/students-at-columbia-university-chant-for-intifada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/hundreds-call-for-intifada-hail-houthis-at-columbia-university-anti-israel-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rallies<\/a>, students cheered on the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists and chanted, &#8220;From New York to Gaza, globalize the intifada,&#8221; and &#8220;From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;intifada&#8221; references violent Palestinian uprisings in Israel that featured terror attacks on civilians, including suicide bombings at bus stations and night clubs. Columbia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/communications.news.columbia.edu\/content\/event-policy-and-campus-resources-faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules<\/a> bar students from inciting violence &#8220;against members of our community.&#8221; Still, Columbia&#8217;s Task Force on Antisemitism said it would not provide guidance on whether phrases such as &#8220;Globalize the Intifada&#8221; violate those rules, instead encouraging the university&#8217;s &#8220;legal team&#8221; to provide &#8220;more guidance on this issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many have heard chants at protests like &#8216;Globalize the Intifada&#8217; and &#8216;Death to the Zionist State&#8217; as calls for violence against them and their families,&#8221; the task force wrote in its report. &#8220;The University also has said that calls for genocide, like other incitement to violence, violate the rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we agree with this principle, the application of it should be clarified,&#8221; the task force continued. &#8220;Many of the chants at recent Columbia protests are viewed differently by different members of the Columbia community: some feel strongly that these are calls to genocide, while others feel strongly that they are not. \u2026 Since this ultimately is a matter of legal compliance, we do not offer a detailed analysis here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report comes months after debate around campus calls for &#8220;intifada&#8221; rocked the Ivy League.<\/p>\n<p>During a December congressional hearing, the leaders of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania offered testimony about their responses to campus anti-Semitism. Then-Harvard president Claudine Gay, along with then-Penn president Liz Magill, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/anti-semitism-hearing-highlights-ivy-league-hypocrisy-on-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly argued<\/a> that calls for &#8220;intifada&#8221; may not violate school rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can be, depending on the context,&#8221; Gay said when asked if &#8220;calling for the genocide of Jews violate[s] Harvard&#8217;s rules of bullying and harassment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer contributed to Gay&#8217;s resignation in early January. Just weeks later, Harvard launched an anti-Semitism task force of its own, which the school <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/task-force-on-antisemitism\/#:~:text=The%20Presidential%20Task%20Force%20on%20Combating%20Antisemitism%20was%20announced%20by,through%20a%20number%20of%20channels.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> would explore &#8220;current manifestations of bias.&#8221; In addition to Columbia, similar task forces exist at Penn and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia&#8217;s task force, though, is the first to provide its school&#8217;s leaders with formal recommendations. Some pro-Israel leaders on campus criticized the task force for declining to offer guidance on calls for &#8220;intifada,&#8221; arguing that its first report should have gone further.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia junior and Students Supporting Israel president Eden Yadegar, for example, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that while she is grateful for the task force&#8217;s work, the first report should have weighed in on which chants violate school rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No other marginalized group would be expected to cede agency over their own identity, and that includes defining forms of racism and prejudice against them,&#8221; she said, adding that she hopes the task force &#8220;will take on the necessary role of condemning speech that incites violence against Jews for what it is: antisemitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Columbia Business School assistant professor Shai Davidai echoed Yadegar&#8217;s rhetoric, telling the <em>Times of Israel<\/em> that while the task force &#8220;put a lot of work&#8221; into its first report, its recommendations fall flat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so frustrated, and it depresses me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;How am I supposed to face the Jewish students who, on a weekly basis, contact me with issues and problems and things that are happening, and tell them that this task force is working so hard on policies about protests?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Columbia nor its Task Force on Antisemitism responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>While the task force did not weigh in on calls for &#8220;intifada,&#8221; it did provide recommendations related to the location of campus protests. The task force&#8217;s report expresses support for a &#8220;&#8216;speaker&#8217;s corner&#8217; approach&#8221; that would allow protests in designated areas away from academic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion is a likely response to anti-Israel protests held in academic buildings at Columbia, which have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-administrators-stand-by-as-anti-israel-protesters-overrun-law-school-and-disrupt-classes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disrupted classes<\/a>. In November, student demonstrators took over the Columbia Law School lobby for hours, using a megaphone to broadcast demands that included the establishment of a &#8220;Center for Palestinian Legal Studies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But that protest was unauthorized, and Columbia administrators <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-administrators-stand-by-as-anti-israel-protesters-overrun-law-school-and-disrupt-classes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stood by<\/a> as it unfolded. The ordeal likely explains the task force&#8217;s criticism of Columbia&#8217;s &#8220;enforcement during demonstrations,&#8221; which the report says has &#8220;fallen short.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we generally agree with the language of the University&#8217;s rules, we have serious concerns about their enforcement,&#8221; the report says. &#8220;First, the University has regularly failed to stop violations of rules as they occur. Second, there also have been challenges in imposing discipline after the fact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The task force is led by political science professor Ester Fuchs, Columbia Journalism School dean emeritus Nicholas Lemann, and Columbia Law School dean emeritus David Schizer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Some feel strongly that these are calls to genocide, while others feel strongly that they are not,&#8217; task force writes in first report Anti-Israel rally at Columbia (Spencer Platt\/Getty Images) In a new report on Columbia University&#8217;s protest policies, the Ivy League school&#8217;s Task Force on Antisemitism declined to say whether calls for &#8220;intifada&#8221; violate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":2195314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pro-palestinian-rally-held-on-columbia-university-campus-e1704401746933.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pro-palestinian-rally-held-on-columbia-university-campus-e1704401746933.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2195314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}