Canary Mission

The most overused word to describe the demonstrations that occurred on college campuses across America following the October 7th massacre that Hamas committed in Israel is the word “spontaneous.” What has been going on for the last few years across many college campuses, not just the Ivy Leagues, has been systematic, well-funded, and clearly targeted at debasing all Jews and normalizing support for terror against all Jews in Israel. 

𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛: Anti-American and anti-Jewish sentiment at Columbia U is by design.

𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥: Our @Columbia report exposed 321 profiles: 68 students, 145 faculty & staff, and 108 outside agitators.

𝗙𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗪 @CanaryMission: Stay informed straight from the source pic.twitter.com/em0idIRp1J

— Canary Mission (@canarymission) March 11, 2025

Anti-Israel rhetoric has often been misrepresented as not necessarily antisemitic. But it is precisely under the guise of being supportive of the human rights of Arabs that the antisemites have found a comfortable method to call for killing Jews that has become acceptable. Moreover, a majority of the Professors in many of these Universities actually agree with the calls to criticize Israel. What they did not necessarily realize is that their support for criticizing Israel was actually enabling the true antisemites to grow and fester into a powerful and acceptable force on college campuses across the country.

There is a huge difference between supporting splitting up Israel into a Jewish State and an Arab State, and supporting killing all of the Jews in Israel. But that leap was taken very easily by the young and impressionable woke crowd on college campuses that became accustomed to criticizing Israel for years. If Israel is an “oppressor,” then shouldn’t we support bringing down all oppressors? The logic is actually completely off and based on lies. But for many young students, that’s really all that went through their progressive-values filled brains. 

The saddest of all aspects to these demonstrations were the numbers of Jews themselves who took part in these demonstrations. Nothing should encourage families to teach their children basic history and basic Jewish values more than the fear of experiencing wrong-headed children and grandchildren demonstrating support of killing Jews.

Columbia University has been a haven for thousands of Jewish students for many decades. But the earthquake that occurred there continues to reverberate to this day. It is definitely time for all who have supported the importance of higher education in the finest colleges to take a step back and consider more than the reputations that colleges have. Sometimes the negative of a poisonous environment is far worse than the positives of a high-quality degree.