Columbia alum Obama silent as Jewish faculty, students face antisemitic harassment on campus

The unfastened antisemitism moving rampant connected Columbia University's field successful New York City has drawn condemnation from some sides of the aisle, but 1 salient Democrat and alumnus of the schoolhouse is remaining silent, choosing not to talk retired against the anti-Israel demonstrations taking spot there.

In a lengthy Monday station connected X commemorating the solemnisation of Passover, erstwhile President Obama, who graduated from Columbia successful 1983, made nary notation of protestors' convulsive rhetoric aimed astatine the university's Jewish students and staff, and neither helium nor his representatives responded to Fox News Digital's petition for remark astir the antisemitic demonstrations that person engulfed the field since past week.

A fig of different Democrats have, however, joined their Republican colleagues in denouncing favoritism against Jews astatine Columbia, which was forced to determination each classes to virtual connected Tuesday due to the fact that of information concerns.

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"Every American has a close to protest," Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said successful a statement. "But erstwhile protests displacement to antisemitism, verbal abuse, intimidation, oregon glorification of Oct. 7 unit against Jewish people, that crosses the line."

New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, different Democrat, besides denounced the show of antisemitism astatine the university, saying she was "appalled." 

"Threats of unit against Jewish students and the Jewish assemblage are horrible, despicable and wholly unacceptable," she said. "Using the rhetoric of terrorists has nary spot successful New York, wherever we pridefulness ourselves connected tolerance and the close of each radical to signifier their religion successful peace."

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Protests by anti-Israel agitators astatine Columbia University, wherever erstwhile President Obama graduated. (Getty Images)

Others who joined their enactment members successful addressing the encampment were Sens. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and John Fetterman, D-Penn.

The anti-Israel agitators initially formed the encampment past Wednesday — mounting up tents and refusing to leave. They person proceeded to march successful and astir the field demanding the schoolhouse extremity affiliations with groups that enactment Israel amid its warfare with Hamas successful Gaza, which has resulted successful tens of thousands of civilian deaths.

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The assemblage announced aboriginal Tuesday that classes connected the main field would stay virtual oregon hybrid "until the extremity of each school's Spring 2024 semester" owed to information concerns implicit the demonstrations. Classes initially went virtual connected Monday.

Fox News' Julia Johnson contributed to this report.