Columbia University’s antisemitism problem is even worse than we knew.
Texts between Columbia deans, obtained and released by the House Education Committee, tell the tale — and show exactly how modern progressive thinking morphs into classic tropes of Jew-hatred.
The deans were texting amid a May 31 alumni event about Jewish life on campus, the school’s effort to show it was truly sensitive to the crisis (and so still worthy of alums’ donations): The two-hour panel let speakers share stories about rising Jew hate in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
But the texts from the hateful three — Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick and Cristen Kromm —show these top faculty mocking the idea that Jewish students deserved increased support and protection. in the face of soaring bigotry, and resenting having to listen to Jewish pain.
“Laying the case to expand physical space! They will have their own dorm soon,” groaned Patashnick.
Chang-Kim scoffed: “Comes from such a place of privilege. . . hard to hear the woe is me, we need to huddle at the Kraft center Huh??”
Hello? Practically every Columbia student is “privileged,” and the Kraft Center for Jewish Life may have been the only “safe space” on a campus where Jews were being urged not to look visibly Jewish while the “pro-Palestinian” goons raged.
“Amazing what $$$$ can do,” Kromm grumbled at one point, and in another text added: “If only every identity community had these resources and support.”
Yes, he actually went to “Jews are all rich” and “they use their money to buy behind-the-scenes control.”
Read “The Elders of Zion” much, Cristen?
Again, this all flows from the ideology, rampant in academia, that classifies all Jews as privileged oppressors and Israelis as white settler-colonialists (and no matter that most Israelis descend from Jews who never left the Middle East for all the many centuries of the Diaspora).
Sure, some of this was initially exposed in an underhanded way: An audience member sitting behind Chang-Kim snapped shots of her phone as the trio texted, later leaking some to the Washington Free Beacon.
But they’re not fake, and they expose a dark truth: Antisemitism is so deeply rooted at Columbia that top administrators comfortably converse using ugly anti-Jewish stereotypes even as they’re pretending to listen to victims of hate.
All three got put on leave, but even firing them won’t change the bigger picture: Hate doesn’t just have a home at Columbia, it’s running the place.
No alum should give a dime until the whole school is disinfected, from the board of trustees on down.
