Rabbi warns Jewish Columbia students: Letters to the Editor — April 23, 2024

The Issue: Columbia Rabbi Elie Buechler’s advisory for Jewish students to leave campus for safety reasons.

And the winner in the “Worst Advice Ever” category goes to Rabbi Elie Buechler, identified by The Post as a “prominent rabbi” at Columbia University (“ Rabbi’s home run call, ” April 22).

He has advised Jewish students there to run away, go home and work remotely. So, in effect, he is telling them they should signal defeat to the Jew-hating crowd and let them control the college campus that they have paid to attend.

Just because the protesters are louder and nastier doesn’t mean they get to dictate the conversation. As a spiritual leader, you are sending the exactly wrong message.

Gina Friedlander

Forest Hills

Did the people who protest not share rooms with students of other races and religions? Did they not help each other with homework or other problems, whether related to school or otherwise?

They should have thought about that before they went far over the line. I’m sure they were all friends or friendly before Oct. 7. Do they really know why they have such hatred for something that is not students’ fault?

Mo Colarusso

Manhattan

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I’d be curious to know if the protesting students at Columbia (or any of the universities where this nonsense is taking place) are paying as much for their education as the non-protesting students who are there predominantly to study.

Ed Altman

Manhattan

Masquerading as anti-Israel, today’s youth goose-step to intimidate Jews. Instead of the four questions at Seder, there must be another: Are we doomed to repeat the past?

The America I knew and loved is withering on the vine of a sickened, ivied culture. The only answer remaining: In God we trust.

Judah Cohen

Woodmere

The callous disregard Columbia’s administrators are demonstrating toward their Jewish students is abhorrent.

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For a school that has such distinguished Jewish alumni, their demonstrably tacit approval toward this threatening behavior reeks of institutionalized antisemitism.

I call on the federal government to discontinue all grants, research projects and financial aid to Columbia until this is corrected.

Alan Swartz

Verona, NJ

I am glad that Shai Davidai was not allowed to incite hatred on Columbia’s campus (“ Columbia professor Shai Davidai refused entry to campus for pro-Jewish rally, ” April 22).

But people who think like him still own the establishment, which is why students are being unfairly kicked out of Columbia’s dorms and left homeless.

This is alongside the many dozens of protesters who were arrested by NYPD goons. And a witch hunt against the protesters is being egged on by pro-Israel politicians and media.

The American people, however, see through the antisemitism charade being circulated by tabloid rags.
The protesters are rallying for the rights of the Palestinian people, and libeling them as Jew-haters is proof that the term “antisemitism” is as overused and irrelevant as the term “racism” after the Black Lives Matter era.

Jean Deleuze

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Stanford, Calif.

The chief rabbi at Columbia recommended that Jewish students stay away from school due to concerns for their physical safety.

Before the mob actions result in physical harm, the police and university leaders must regain control and ensure all protests are peaceful, or they will have blood on their hands.

Larry Hootnick

Watermill

These protesters are ardently seeking the destruction of Israel and, by extension, the destruction of Jews as well.

Taking the offensive as a means of preemptively responding to the massive demonstrations likely to occur at coming graduations appears to be a positive measure.

But the most effective way of curtailing the almost violent outbursts of Jew-hatred would be for administrators to use law enforcement and suspensions against protesting stu­dents.

Samuel Frazer

Fort Myers, Fla.

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