Legal Insurrection by Mary Chastain Tuesday, April 30, 2024
“Had Plaintiff known that Columbia would not provide an in-person educational free of harassment, Plaintiff would not have chosen to enroll at or pay tuition to Columbia.”A Columbia University Jewish student identified as C.S. filed a class action lawsuit against the school, claiming it has done nothing to provide a safe environment.
“Plaintiff C.S. brings this lawsuit to hold Columbia accountable for failing to provide a safe educational environment for its students,” according to the lawsuit. “Plaintiff also seeks an emergency injunction, through a motion filed contemporaneously with this complaint, requiring Columbia to enforce its Statement of Ethical Conduct and Administrative Code of Conduct to provide safe and secure access to education free from harassment and discrimination so that Plaintiff and the Class members can safely complete the semester in person with the rest of the student body.”
The anti-Israel…people…have been contaminating Columbia’s campus for over a week.
C.S. provides evidence that the so-called peaceful protesters have targeted and harassed Jewish students:
Since its formation, the encampment has been the center of round the-clock harassment of Jewish students, who have been punched, shoved, spat upon, blocked from attending classes and moving freely about campus, and targeted by pro-terrorist hate speech–– both verbal and in written form on massive banners and signs––with statements such as: “Death to the Jews”; “Long live Hamas”; “Globalize the Intifada”; “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution” (invoking Hitler’s “final solution” of killing all Jews); “Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too”; “Red, black, green, and white, we support Hamas’ fight”; “It is right to rebel, Al-Qassam, give them hell”; and “go back to Poland” (a not too-veiled reference to the concentration camps where Jews were mass murdered during the Holocaust).
I know you guys are smart, but just as a reminder, “Intifada” refers to attacks against Israelis from 1987 to 1993 and 2000 to 2005.
Al-Qassam is Hamas’s military wing.
The lawsuit states that people have harassed and intimidated C.S. on campus since October 7. Everything escalated after the encampment began on April 18.
C.S. calls out Columbia’s quick retreat from its DEI commitment by allowing these people to target and degrade Jews:
More:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/jewish-student-files-lawsuit-against-columbia-for-failing-to-maintain-a-safe-learning-environment/
