{"id":2232842,"date":"2024-04-29T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-shoved-me-to-the-ground-at-columbia-for-wearing-a-kippah\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T19:55:45","slug":"they-shoved-me-to-the-ground-at-columbia-for-wearing-a-kippah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-shoved-me-to-the-ground-at-columbia-for-wearing-a-kippah\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Pushed Down at Columbia for Wearing a Kippah"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fthey-shoved-me-to-the-ground-at-columbia-for-wearing-a-kippah%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=2232842&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--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/peter-schweizer-new-york-state-covid-19-law-is-moving-in-direction-of-wwii-internment-of-japanese-americans\/\" title=\"Peter Schweizer: New York State COVID-19 Law Is Moving in Direction of WWII Internment of Japanese Americans\">summary describes<\/a> a disturbing incident of \u2062anti-Semitic attacks at Columbia\u200d University. The victim, \u2062an Israeli Olympian \u200dand captain of a diverse bobsled team, faced multiple assaults due to his Jewish identity. The narrative delves into the rising trend of Jew hate, the toxic environment at academic institutions like Columbia, and the ongoing battle against anti-Semitism, emphasizing the importance of preserving Jewish identity in \u2063the\u2063 face of bigotry and hatred.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the crowed swarmed me, one student yelled, \u201cHe\u2019s subhuman!\u201d Another student shouted, \u201cI can\u2019t wait for Hamas to come to your door \u2026 al-Qassam is going to kill all your friends for no reason.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I pointed with pride to the red Kippah, Jewish skullcap, that adorned my head. It was soon forcefully ripped off by a \u201cpeaceful\u201d student who dug his nails into my scalp as he pulled it off, along with some hair. This was one of three assaults I was subjected to at Columbia University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am a \u201cprofessional Jew.\u201d It takes a lot to unnerve me. As an Israeli Olympian and captain of an Israeli bobsled team that is majority non-Jewish (Druze comprise most of our team,) my job is to represent the nation and country of Israel. Representing Israel for the past 10 years has been the greatest honor of my life, and it has given me a rather unique perspective on the mutating virus of Jew hate that has become so visible these past six months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jew hate is a rather unique form of hatred. It is a super-virus that mutates to gain entry to its host in the form of whatever grievance or bias that host might have. There isn\u2019t a grievance that cannot be blamed on the Jews as a means of alleviating oneself or a system of the rightful blame. Jews either sit atop the power structure, pull the strings behind the structure, or lie beneath the structure to destabilize it. In my travels, I have experienced Jew hatred from socialists, capitalists, centrists, communists, you name it. These new virulently hateful protests come as no shock to me. Quite the opposite. At institutions like Columbia, which foster almost exclusively a culture of victimhood and oppression narratives, blind Jew hatred is almost the foregone conclusion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Academia has always been a welcome home to an intellectual \u201celite\u201d that are unable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-need-more-fathers-not-less-climate-concerns-causing-young-americans-to-skip-parenthood\/\" title=\"We Need More Fathers, Not Less: Climate Concerns Causing Young Americans To Skip Parenthood\">make meaningful contributions<\/a> to a market economy. Their talents are marketable, in a way, only at an institution that demands merely the regurgitation of information \u2014 if not for the fact that it would be impossible to charge $70,000 per year for a YouTube education, these skills are even less relevant to a market economy today. And so universities are especially attractive to a subset of adults whose skill set grows ever less marketable by the day. By definition, these are the folks most drawn to grievances and jealousy. Outside of the bubble of intellectual elitism, they have no way of supporting themselves. It is hard to make money in an office when your subject matter expertise is \u201coppression.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As I pointed to the Kippah on my head, my neck still stinging from having been clawed earlier by a student who called me a \u201cwhite devil,\u201d I recalled why a Kippah was so important to me. I do not wear it for a religious purpose. I wear it as an act of pride and identification. In response to two rank anti-Semitic episodes at the 2018 Olympics, I was the first to wear a Kippah in Olympic competition. Jew hatred seeks to dehumanize, delegitimize, and intimidate Jews. But more than anything, it seeks to eradicate Jewish identity. That is the one constant of all forms of Jew hatred \u2014 the end goal is always a \u201cfinal solution.\u201d Being rid of Jews. And in some ways these protests have succeeded in their intent. It takes a lot to shock me \u2014 but seeing a Columbia student remove his Kippah before exiting the subway tunnel at the site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/violent-persecution-of-christians-in-nicaragua-part-of-regional-transformations\/\" title=\"Violent Persecution of Christians in Nicaragua Part of Regional \u2018Transformations\u2019\">protests left<\/a> a mark that is truly difficult to put into words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the past six months, I have set up picnic tables in parks in New York and across North America to engage in a dialogue with folks and to debate. I have shown up to many protests. What I have observed is obscene. A complete subversion of Western values encouraged by the very \u201coppression-Olympics\u201d loving faculty that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-celebrities-mostly-ignore-biden-use-state-of-the-union-to-attack-gop\/\" title=\"Hollywood Celebrities Mostly Ignore Biden, Use State of the Union to Attack GOP\">stoked hatred<\/a> and division amongst our youth for decades. Chants of \u201cdeath to America\u201d are routine. \u201cGo back to Poland\u201d is shouted by the same \u201ctolerant\u201d young adults who champion unfettered migration. International students lead chants in Arabic about violent, terrorist action to topple the \u201cZionist\u201d regime, which by extension includes the United States which, they say, is \u201ccontrolled by the Jews.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of the protesters have no idea what their demands are. All they know is they stand on the \u201cside of justice\u201d and where they stand for justice, all means of fighting evil are therefore acceptable, even violence. When I was shoved to the ground and kicked I have no doubt that whoever assaulted me believed that such action, while illegal, vile, and hateful was striking a blow against injustice. To strike me, a visibly Jewish man, was to strike against the evil they had been told I represented. The West needs to be aware of the implications of this mentality, for Western values have made the United States and other countries like it far more successful than those without those values. Eventually, these students, and those who come after them, will view a blow to Western values and structures as a blow for \u201cjustice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a few weeks, these protests will be no more. The privileged students will return home for the summer without consequences for their actions, and this moment will die down. But the environment at the institutions will remain. The noxious atmosphere of grievance ideology that always views Jews as an oppressor will persist. Make no mistake \u2014 this is not a \u201csudden explosion.\u201d This is systemic. Pervasive. It will take much time and spine to root out. And if the past six months are any indication, we will not succeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>A.J. Edelman is an Israeli Olympian and captain of Israel\u2019s Edelman Bobsled Team, a mixed Jewish\/Druze team training for the 2026 Olympic Games ranked 3<sup>rd<\/sup> on the North American Circuit. When not sliding down mountains he is a writer and commentator.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrounded by a hostile crowd, I endured hateful slurs. &#8220;He&#8217;s subhuman!&#8221; one student spat. 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