The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/antisemitism/)
My immediate initial reaction to the D grade given to Cornell by the ADL was — and remains — that it is unwarranted and decidedly does not correspond to what I have seen and have experienced on campus.
Patrick Dai ’24 accepts a plea deal and admits guilt for his series of antisemitic threats posted in October. He now awaits his sentencing hearing scheduled for Aug. 12.
In a second letter to President Pollack, Rep. Jason Smith (R-M.O.) requested information about the University’s response to CML-led demonstrations.
CFI said that the sexual violence demonstration was canceled before criticism from the Coalition for Mutual Liberation was publicized.
Prof. Rosensaft spoke about how the Israel-Hamas war caused political polarization and hate to proliferate.
The government of Israel is no more exempt from criticism than is the government of the United States, which is funding, supplying and otherwise enabling Israel’s scorched-earth war on Gaza.
Cornell’s criminals have a human dimension unexplored by most.
Imagine a group of people accused of racism demanding the University adopt a definition of racism that would exempt them. This, in essence, is what the Cornell Coalition for Mutual Liberation did on Dec. 1 when they demanded Cornell define anti-Zionism as an “ideology” and not antisemitism. It seems Jews are the only minority denied the right to define aggressions against them as bigotry. Defining Zionism is simple: It is the desire by an indigenous people, the Jews, to return to their ancestral homeland and for those who never left to regain/retain sovereignty.
Following an open letter from Jon Lindseth ’56 calling for President Martha Pollack’s resignation, the Cornell Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve Pollack’s leadership.
Amid tensions in the Middle East, Prof. Menachem Rosensaft, law, began teaching a new course that offers a safe environment for students to ask difficult questions.