A student group from Columbia Law reportedly declared that no Jew is “safe” or “free” until Palestine is free.
In an email allegedly sent by Columbia Law’s National Lawyers Guild organization on Friday, the group condemned the school’s administration and the NYPD for clearing out Hamilton Hall after it was occupied by anti-Israel protesters.
Responding to Jewish critics, the group insisted that they did not speak for “all Jews” and argued Jewish safety cannot be assured until Palestine is “free.”
“To the Jewish students, faculty, and trustees blocking divestment and urging the violent crackdowns on campus: you threaten everyone’s safety. Yet you continue to claim to speak for all Jews. Keep our names out of your mouths. You, who called us ‘Judenrat,’ put us on lists of ‘bad Jews,’ and cheered the brutalization of our comrades, do not represent us,” the message read.
“While you repeatedly cried wolf with claims that anti-Zionist speech was antisemitic, which diluted the very real instances of antisemitism, we shared uplifting, welcoming Shabbat services in the Gaza solidarity Encampment. While you threatened doxxing and disciplinary actions, we found community in the encampment and imagined a more just world,” the email continued. “Our safety cannot be predicated on the oppression of others, whether campus protesters or Palestinians. No Jew is safe until everyone is safe, and no Jew is free until Palestine is free.”
The group also pushed back against concerns over the safety of Jewish students and faculty, claiming that they are only being used as a “pretext for Columbia’s violence.”
“We have repeated to the point of exhaustion that the protection of Jewish students and faculty is a dangerous, flimsy pretext for Columbia’s violence. By now, it is abundantly clear that this excuse is a gross perversion of the truth. This excuse has been weaponized by white Christian nationalists, including those in Congress, whose main motivations are dismantling diversity initiatives and promoting a Jewish majority in Israel to initiate the rapture.”
Many of the protesters in Hamilton Hall were not students at the university, but outside agitators, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Public Information Tarik Sheppard told “Your World Cavuto” on Thursday.
“They are professionals,” he said. “They may just fly in for a day or two and leave. You’ll see them traveling around the country, and they have funding.”
Fox News’ Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.
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