{"id":2240299,"date":"2024-05-08T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-jewish-students-at-columbia-sign-letter-saying-we-will-not-stop-standing-up-for-ourselves\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T20:51:56","slug":"hundreds-of-jewish-students-at-columbia-sign-letter-saying-we-will-not-stop-standing-up-for-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-jewish-students-at-columbia-sign-letter-saying-we-will-not-stop-standing-up-for-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia&#8217;s Jewish Students Unite: Committed to Self-Advocacy"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fhundreds-of-jewish-students-at-columbia-sign-letter-saying-we-will-not-stop-standing-up-for-ourselves%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=2240299&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 summary of \u200cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-reeling-as-spanish-language-news-leader-changes-its-tune-on-trump\/\" title=\"Democrats Reeling as Spanish Language News Leader Changes Its Tune on Trump\">article \u200cmentions<\/a> how hundreds of Jewish students at Columbia University signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/economists-push-for-another-round-of-stimulus-checks\/\" title=\"Economists Push for Another Round of Stimulus Checks\">open letter<\/a> standing firm against protests related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Professor Shai Davidai, previously barred\u2062 from campus, supports their cause. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-sets-stage-to-nail-hunter-in-wh-cocaine-charge\/\" title=\"Tom Cotton prepares to expose Hunter's White House cocaine charge.\">letter emphasizes<\/a> the students&#8217; right to self-identity and challenges anti-Zionist sentiments that\u2063 target them.\u2064 It addresses the misuse of the term &#8220;Zionist&#8221; and \u2062the students&#8217; diverse\u200b views on Israeli government actions.  <\/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>Hundreds of Jewish students at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/columbia-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia University<\/a> signed onto an open letter to the school community vowing not to back down in the face of protests in response to the Israel-Hamas war that caused a major disruption on the New York City campus.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Davidai, a Columbia professor who last month said he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pro-israel-professor-denied-entry-at-columbia-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">barred<\/a> from campus as he tried to stage a sit-in at the site where the anti-Israel demonstrators had set up an encampment, and others <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai\/status\/1788189807983677690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> the letter in a post to X on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the letter, the signees are \u201caverage students,\u201d who say that those \u201cwho demonize us under the cloak of anti-Zionism forced us into our activism and forced us to publicly defend our Jewish identities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter expressed the view that the Jewish people have a \u201cright to self-determination in our historic homeland as a fundamental tenet of our Jewish identity\u201d and pushed back on claims that Judaism can be \u201cseparated\u201d from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Citing reports of harassment, the letter said the \u201cevil irony of today\u2019s antisemitism is a twisted reversal of our Holocaust legacy; protestors on campus have dehumanized us, imposing upon us the characterization of the \u2018white colonizer.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish students said they are being \u201ctargeted for our belief that Israel, our ancestral and religious homeland, has a right to exist.\u201d They also said the word \u201cZionist\u201d is being misused as a slur that is \u201csynonymous with racist, oppressive, or genocidal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Love of Israel \u201cdoes not necessitate blind political conformity,\u201d the letter said, adding that such affection pushes many of the Jewish students to object when the Israeli government acts in ways they find \u201cproblematic\u201d \u2014 such as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s judicial reform push.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-breaks-silence-as-hamas-terror-missiles-blast-israel\/\" title=\"Biden Breaks Silence as Hamas Terror Missiles Blast Israel\">latest conflict<\/a> in the Gaza Strip began more than six months ago after the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in October. Anti-Israel protests at colleges nationwide have taken root since that time. Columbia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/speaker-johnson-calls-on-columbia-board-to-remove-president-after-main-graduation-gets-cancelled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled<\/a> its main graduation ceremony after a crackdown on protesters who sought divestment from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Jewish students wrote in the letter that the last half year showed them a \u201clarge and vocal population of the Columbia community does not understand the meaning of Zionism, and subsequently does not understand the essence of the Jewish People.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter said concerns about anti-Semitism \u201chave been brushed off and invalided,\u201d and so the Jewish students listed several examples in order to \u201cremind\u201d the community of their strife, including when a protest leader \u2014 who has since been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/26\/nyregion\/columbia-student-protest-zionism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kicked<\/a> from campus \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/zionists-dont-deserve-to-live-meet-the-leader-of-columbia-universitys-anti-israel-encampment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cZionists don\u2019t deserve to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In concluding the letter, the Jewish students said, \u201cOne thing is for sure. We will not stop standing up for ourselves. We are proud to be Jews, and we are proud to be Zionists.\u201d The Jewish students added that they hope the community will join them in an effort to \u201crepair our campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Jewish students at Columbia University pledged in an open letter to stand firm amid campus disruptions following the Israel-Hamas conflict. The students remain steadfast despite challenges, showcasing resilience in the face of adversity. Professor Shai Davidai, previously restricted, supports their unwavering stance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2240300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2011170800-scaled-e1715198106712.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2011170800-scaled-e1715198106712.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240299","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}