Rickford made his initial comments during an Oct. 15 pro-Palestinian rally on the Ithaca, New York, campus.
Numerous X users shared the video and their concern that the protest could endanger anyone Jewish at the school.
My own Columbia classmates have responded to the horror by posting comments supporting Hamas and trying to silence others.
Campus Chabads have quickly become places of shelter amid the wave of antisemitic pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas activity.
It’s easy to feel helpless in this situation – what can one Jewish student on a campus of 40,000 do? The answer is connect with thousands like them around the country.
A new higher education campus for the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Israelis living in the South will open up around October 2024.
A recent study finds discrepancies between how, on average, men and women perceive antisemitism on their university campuses.
An intruder at UPenn's Hillel smashed a table and podium, flipped over a table in the lobby, and yelled antisemitic slurs in an attack on the Jewish student center.
The judge presiding over the case ruled that the principal failed “to take appropriate and reasonable steps to discourage and modify the antisemitic student bullying and harassment behavior.”
As the head of Ono Academic College, Ranan Hartman has been changing Israel's higher education sector and pushing to integrate students from underprivileged backgrounds.