Columbia Administrators Mock Jewish Students With Vomit Emojis

Administrators at Columbia University recently mocked complaints from Jewish students about anti-Semitism on campus.

According to the Free Beacon, alumni descended on the university's Manhattan campus on May 31 to celebrate their class reunions. The festivities included several panel discussions featuring professors and administrators, one in which focused on "Jewish life on campus."

The panel featured David Schizer, former dean of Columbia Law School; Brian Cohen, executive director of Columbia’s Kraft Center for Jewish Life; Ian Rottenberg, dean of religious life; and Rebecca Massel, a reporter for the student newspaper who wrote about the campus protests.

Several Columbia administrators were in the audience: Josef Sorett, the dean of Columbia College; Susan Chang-Kim, the vice dean and chief administrative officer of Columbia College; Cristen Kromm, the dean of undergraduate student life; and Matthew Patashnick, the associate dean for student and family support.

During the panel, an audience member photographed several texts administrators sent to each other, providing them to the Beacon.

"As the panelists offered frank appraisals of the climate Jewish students have faced, Columbia's top officials responded with mockery and vitriol, dismissing claims of anti-Semitism.

"Did we really have students being kicked out of clubs for being Jewish?,"  Chang-Kim texted Kromm and Patashnick. "This is difficult to listen to but I'm trying to keep an open mind to learn about this point of view," Chang-Kim texted Sorett.

The administrators also used "vomit emojis" to dismiss the fears of Jewish students. 

You can see some of the texts captured below:

The report adds that Patashnick also mocked one of the panelists, writing, "He knows exactly what he’s doing and how to take full advantage of this moment. Huge fundraising potential." 

Chang-Kim texted back, "Double Urgh.

Consider that those fears expressed by Jewish students include protesters who shouted "burn Tel Aviv to the ground" and "Zionists don't deserve to live" on campus.

In October 2023, Columbia’s campus rabbi, Yonah Hain, wrote an op-ed in The Columbia Spectator about anti-Semitism on the university’s campus:

"Our community’s normalization of Hamas is a point-of-no-return moment at Columbia. Debates about Zionism, one state or two states, occupation, and Israeli military and government policy are all welcome conversations on campus. 

"We won’t all see eye to eye about this current Israel-Hamas war and about our notions of proportionality, restraint, and ceasefire. Indeed, these issues occupy a prominent role in discourse within the Jewish community itself. What’s not up for debate is that massacring Jews is unequivocally wrong."

We published a column in April about what's causing the normalization of anti-Semitism across elite universities, and how it stems from the Marxian concept that struggle is primarily the result of exploitation.

Per our column:

The ongoing anti-Israel protests across so-called "elite" American campuses demonstrate the consequences of seeing the world as split between the oppressed and their oppressors — the vision that modern progressives believe is the answer to our troubles.

Believers of the overly simplistic oppressor/oppressed ideology are uniquely susceptible to the whims of divisive propaganda. In this case, radicalized students attribute the ills of the Middle East to colonialism and imperialism. They blame the Jews.

In the minds of Columbia administrators, Jewish students come from a long line of oppressors and thus cannot be victims. 

American economist Thomas Sowell long warned, "The road to hell is paved by Ivy League degrees."

The past eight months, from October 7 to today, have further proven his statement accurate.