
Columbia Professor Jack Halberstam is weighing in on the expanding tensions on campus … quickly soon after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a constructing at the Ivy League college.

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We acquired the Gender Analysis and English prof Tuesday on “TMZ Reside,” and he defended Monday night’s takeover of Hamilton Corridor … as pupil protesters have occupied properties in the earlier — which contain Hamilton Hall — to attract focus to injustices relevant to South African apartheid and the Vietnam War, for instance.
Professor Halberstam also shed gentle on how the conflict regarding pro-Palestinian protesters and pro-Israel protesters has in truth been expanding for months … with the college allegedly undertaking smaller to help students on possibly facet.
He integrated … “There have been skilled-Palestinian students who have been doxed … so these learners believe that the university is not that interested in their safety. And the university retains amping up the chance for recriminations in opposition to them.”

Preserve in thoughts, far a lot more than one hundred students ended up arrested two weeks back following the university seasoned cops vacant a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. This sparked demonstrations to pop up across college or university campuses … ensuing in additional than 1000 arrests in ten occasions.
As for the prevalent experiences of antisemitic chants and threats against Jewish learners … Professor Halberstam claims the pro-Palestinian protestors are not versus Israel’s existence and are only questioning the country’s connection with Palestine.
He also insists you will uncover just as a lot Islamophobic hatred staying spewed on campus as antisemitism.
The professor’s assertion is that Jewish students’ protection fears are becoming prioritized about Muslim students’ unease — blaming the media, Columbia administrators and the Republican bash for turning the campus into a “circus.”