‘I F—ing Hate This University’: Columbia Student Workers Union Erupts Over Anti-Semitism Task Force’s Recommendation To Hire Middle East Professors Who Don’t Hate Israel

By Jessica Schwalb

After Columbia University’s anti-Semitism task force recommended hiring Middle East professors who are “not explicitly anti-Zionist”—the task force’s final report noted that there are no such professors who are full-time and on tenure track—an official group chat for the Ivy League school’s student union erupted, screenshots exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Members compared Zionists to racists and fascists. The chair of the union’s board said, “I f—ing hate this university.”

“I think the way they’ve framed it carefully states that the existing faculty are anti and they want ‘not anti,’” wrote Jon Ben-Menachem, a Student Workers of Columbia (SWC) member and doctoral student studying “the politics of American criminalization.”

“Which is still quite zany if you thought [sic] about ‘not anti racist.’”

Hayes Buchanan, an architecture Ph.D. student, said the recommendation amounted to “affirmative action for zionist views,” “trigger warnings for zionists,” and a “giant pot of money to pay zionists with.”

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