"It was through the full academic scholarship Columbia gave me that I was able to attend college and get my start in life and for that I have been tremendously grateful," Kraft said in a statement. "However, the school I love so much -- the one that welcomed me and provided me with so much opportunity -- is no longer an institution I recognize."
"I am deeply saddened at the virulent hate that continues to grow on campus and throughout our country," Kraft added. "I am no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff and I am not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken.
"It is my hope that Columbia and its leadership will stand up to this hate by ending these protests immediately and will work to earn back the respect and trust of many of us who have lost faith in the institution," he continued.
"It is my hope that in this difficult time, the Kraft Center at Columbia will serve as a source of security and safety for all Jewish students and faculty on campus who want to gather peacefully to practice their religions, to be together and to be welcomed."
Kraft, who is worth $11.1 billion, has been a prolific donor to the university and funded the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life across from Columbia's campus.
Here's a bit at what's been going on at this formerly prestigious university:
Columbia University president Minouche Shafik was accused of "gross negligence" while testifying before the House Education and Workforce Committee about antisemitic incidents at the school and pro-Palestinian indoctrination. Shafik defended the school's response after Oct. 7, but refused to tell lawmakers at the hearing if the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is antisemitic.
A report from the Ivy League school's Task Force on Antisemitism found "repeated violations by student groups" at Columbia after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks in Israel.
Ahead of the hearing, Jewish students told The Post that they have been targeted and witnessed antisemitism at the Morningside Heights campus. The Columbia University Jewish Alumni Association told The Post that the college's administrators must "do their job" in reining in unauthorized student protests.
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American colleges and universities spent the last decade censoring conservatives - canceling events, punishing teachers, etc. - because they said they wanted to ensure their students never felt unsafe. They spent uncountable millions institutionalizing leftwing diversity programs and staff, with the same pretext.
Either they were lying or Jewish students don't count for them. Or both.
White Christian students also don't count.
Columbia is lying when it claims it's observing these terrorists' free speech rights -- here they are refusing a Jewish professor on to the campus because they don't want him joining an anti- Hamas rally.
Columbia explained that because pro-Hamas "protesters" were threatening Jews, they were going to have to keep Jews off campus for "student safety."
How about kicking the Hamas terror agents off campus instead?
And Columbia students do seem to be Hamas agents:
The corrupt leftwing facutly of this Shithole School joined "students" in a walk-out, protesting the university president not allowing the left to break all of the rules in their "protests." ("Protesters" had set up "shanty towns" and were camping all over the campus' public areas, like the homeless bums they are; the president ordered the camps torn down. The left of course maintains it has the right to squat and take over property that belongs to others.)
Biden pulls a "bad people on both sides" -- he says he condemns antisemitism, but also "condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians."
They're both the same!
So Nazi-like scapegoating of Jews is bad, and also, having a different opinion that Rashida Tlaib on the Palestinians is just as bad.
Meanwhile, at formerly prestigious Yale:
A Yale student was stabbed in the eye as part of the left's "protests."
I was stabbed in the eye last night on Yale University's campus because I am a Jew.
I wish I could say I was surprised, but since October 7, Yale has refused to take action against students glorifying violence, chanting "resistance is justified," "celebrat[ing] the resistance's success," and fundraising for "Palestinian anarchist fighters" on the frontlines of the "resistance." In more recent days, the school has allowed students to run roughshod over their most basic policies against postering, time and place restrictions, disorderly conduct, respect for university property, and the rights of others, not to mention stalking and harassment.
Yesterday, I paid the price for their inaction.
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I should say here that I am a visibly observant Jew who wears a large Star of David around my neck and dresses modestly. I went over with my friend Netanel Crispe, who is also identifiably Jewish because of his beard, black hat, and tzitzit.
When we approached the anti-Israel protest accompanying the tent encampment to document the demonstration, we were quickly walled off by demonstration organizers and attendees who stood in a line in front of us. No one else documenting the event was blockaded this way.
In every direction we moved, demonstrators stood in front of us, arms linked, yelling along with the crowd. (Watch this video and ask yourself if this would happen to a student who did not look visibly Jewish.)
They shoved us and waved their flashlights in our eyes. One demonstrator held up a boombox in front of Netanel's face, blasting a rap song with the lyrics:
Fuck Israel, Israel a bitch / Bitch we out here mobbin' on some Palestine shit / Free Palestine bitch, Israel gon' die bitch / Nigga it's they land why you out here tryna rob it / Bullshit prophets, y'all just want the profit
As I separated from Netanel and tried to walk through, the wall of protest organizers in front of me remained. When I said, "I can walk. I have freedom of movement," they mocked me: "Do you hear that, everybody? She can walk!"
Before too long, the protesters encircled me in addition to the human blockade. Their arms linked, and they danced in a circle around me so that I was pinned between them, the human blockade, and a wall. Some other demonstrators noticed this and joined in on the taunting.
They pointed their middle fingers at me and yelled "Free Palestine," and the taunting continued until a six-foot-something male protester holding a Palestinian flag waved the flag in my face and then stabbed me with it in my left eye.
My assailant was masked and wearing a keffiyeh, concealing his identity. He also wore glasses and a black jacket. I started to yell and chase after him, but the wall of students continued to block me as I screamed. Next, I went to the Yale police, but they offered little in the way of assistance. They told me that their orders came from administrators who weren't present at the demonstration, and that there were only seven officers to handle a crowd of about 500. So I was checked out by an ambulance EMT, who recommended I go to the hospital.
The midnight demonstration, the encampment, the violence, all of it violates Yale policy. Some of it, like my assault, also violates state and federal law. Yet nothing meaningful seems to happen in response. Given Yale's permissiveness, I had the sinking feeling that someone would get hurt. I just didn't expect it to be me.
There are bad people on both sides, says Biden.
Update: AOC praises the Hamas protesters, and Biden praises AOC for her wisdom in supporting Hamas.