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“Three Columbia Deans Placed on Leave Pending Investigation,” by Eliana Johnson, Washington Free Beacon, June 20, 2024:
Three of the Columbia University deans caught exchanging dismissive text messages during a May 31 panel on anti-Semitism have been placed on leave as the university investigates the incident, a spokesman for the school said Thursday.
As part of the college’s alumni reunion week, Columbia College administrators, knowing of the alarm expressed by many alumni at the stories of antisemitic harassment of Jewish students by anti-Israel and pro-Hamas demonstrators on the campus, and the claims by Jews that they received no support from the administration, decided to put on a show. Jewish students would be allowed to publicly air their complaints, as participants in a panel discussion on May 31, in the presence of several Columbia College deans, faculty members, and members of the alumni reunion classes, who would be able to observe this airing of grievances, as a way to allay fears that the college administrators were not doing enough to address the Jewish students’ claims of harassment and violence.
“The Dean of Columbia College informed his team today that three administrators have been placed on leave pending a university investigation of the incident that occurred at the College alumni reunion several weeks ago,” the spokesman said.
That dean, Josef Sorett, who also took part in the text exchanges, “reiterated his commitment to learning from this situation and other incidents over the last year to build a community of respect and healthy dialogue.”
The three deans placed on leave, Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick, and Cristen Kromm, were captured—along with Sorett—exchanging derisive and anti-Semitic text messages. The texts included Kromm’s use of vomit emojis to refer to a Columbia University rabbi’s op-ed sounding the alarm about the eruption of anti-Semitism on campus and Patashnick’s accusation that one of the panelists, Columbia Hillel director Brian Cohen, was taking “full advantage of this moment” for its “fundraising potential.”
A Columbia spokesman said the school had no comment regarding why Sorett, who took part in the text exchanges, was not placed on leave or on the propriety of Sorett making the announcement that his colleagues are under investigation. Likewise, the spokesman declined to say who would conduct the investigation, to whom the results would be reported, and whether the results would be made public….
We still don’t know what Dean Sorett himself expressed when he took part in the exchanges among the three deputy deans. Did he join in the unseemly, unsympathetic, and downright antisemitic mocking of the Jewish students who testified? Or did he denounce the deputy deans in his own emails, and tell them to stop? His own emails will now be subject to investigation by— one assumes — an outside committee.
When the investigation — perhaps by an outside law firm — is complete, one hopes that the three deputy deans, following their display of antisemitic amusement at the Jewish witnesses testifying as to how they have been mistreated on campus, without any support forthcoming from the administration, will be discharged. As for Dean Sorett himself, much will depend on whether his emails show him scolding the deputy deans, or remaining silent, or joining in the general hilarity. If it is the latter, then he, too, must go.
as always with leftists the investigation has gone to the mirror dept. they are looking into it . never to be seen again .
Not if there are lawsuits by REAL civil rights lawyers. And there are a few of these.
Then, this becomes part of a legal action. I hope the students and others so mistreated and mocked by these monsters are sued and fired. I hope Columbia with deep deep Jihadi & Chinese money pockets pays.
And that ‘s just the ones that were stupid enough to leave a paper/net trail!
Take a survey of how many Conservative, MAGA, pro-Life, Christians, and Jews are professors and deans? “TEN? How did they through our vetting process? Let’s intimidate them to quit or move.”
For Example, here at the University of NM, the entire music and Fine Arts department is run by the FAR-LEFT with post on Facebook to prove and at all times, on their page that advertises their position, their performances, and general messages on their program… THEN THEY BOMBARD THE SITE WITH HATE FOR ANYONE that is a MAGA, ETC… ! They also don’t care if they’re HATING against their own students, who are surely hiding in the closet in fear of being OUTED LIKE GAYS USED TO BE!
COLUMBIA PROFESSOR, JOSEPH MASSAD, a former UNM student who I knew in the ’80s and was recruited by GERRY BRADLEY, the head of the NM Marxist Educators for Socialist Action and the NM Peace Council, an affiliate of THE SOVIET KGB’S WORLD PEACE COUNCIL! Massad, one of the most radical and vocal radicals at Columbia now has a petition to get him fired with up to 37,000 signatures due to his support for HAMAS! His UNM fellow student, AHMAD ASSED, now President of the Islamic Center of NM, also a Bradley recruit and surely still advising him, held a protest to OPENLY SUPPORT HAMAS about ten years ago. (I called all the TV stations and our newspaper to inform them of his past protest and if he still supports HAMAS, a terrorist group, “and if he sent any money or aid to Gaza, directly or indirectly, to HAMAS!” NONE! A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE! His sister, Samia, IS OUTSPOKEN and was on the national MSM circuit, including on Democracy Now.
IMAGINE WHAT JOSEPH MASSAD HAD TO DO TO GET 37,000 SIGNATURES AGAINST HIM CONSIDERING ALL THE OTHER COLUMBIA RADICALS! He’s also been on DH’s list of Most Radical Professors!
According to Mike Waller who wrote “Big Intel”, the political communists in Nazi Germany who came up with Critical Theory, got out of Germany one step ahead of the Gestapo.
Of course they settled in NYC and set up shop at Columbia, the university that has had a habit of welcoming and sheltering every reprobate Communist since the early 20th C.
From there Herbert Marcuse, George Lukacs, and Theodore Adorno set about establishing the Frankfurt School of Marxist Critical Theory and began their long march through the institutions. The fruit of this movement has infected every institution in American life.
Columbia welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Achmedinijad, Fidel Castro, and a host of international “revolutionary” (criminal) scumbags to speak. And the little spoiled, wannabe communist students welcomed them with open arms.
Most recently Columbia U. was the center of all of the anti-Israel pro Hamas “protests”.
Columbia has been a s-hole university since its founding. It should finally be discredited, but it will be tough to do that. To discredit it one would have to find some sane journalists who don’t hate Jews.
“IMAGINE WHAT JOSEPH MASSAD HAD TO DO TO GET 37,000 SIGNATURES AGAINST HIM CONSIDERING ALL THE OTHER COLUMBIA RADICALS!”
With all of these radicals infesting the halls of Columbia and the way they are infecting the minds of the wannabe communist students, this excuse for a university should be renamed Moscow University On The Hudson.
Firing this reprobate’s assets won’t do much. The entire faculty will have to eradicated.
FORNICATE COLUMBIA.
“DEATH TO HAMAS”.
God Bless Israel.
Good article. They need to take away the federal funding, federal student loans etc. to Columbia, UCLA, IUniv. of Penn, Stanford, Harvard, etc and force them to use their endowments. That will definitely light a fire underneath them. They also need to rid the DEI and CRT mandates that have turned American Universities into cheer leaders for HAMAS and haters of the Israel and the United States Of America.
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Talking to an African American is like taming a wild animal.
Talking to an African American is like taming a wild animal.
Talking to an African American is like taming a wild animal.
Talking to an African American is like taming a wild animal.
Talking to an African American is like taming a wild animal.
With pride it is done.
Talking to an African American is like taming a wild animal.
Talking to an African American is like taming a wild animal.
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