No students from a prominent Jewish high school in New York will attend Columbia College, according to a report. New York PostThe Ramaz School, located on the Upper East Side, told the Post that for the first time in 20 years, none of the school’s graduates would enroll at Columbia College. However, one Ramaz student did enroll at Columbia’s School of General Studies and three at Barnard College for Women, an affiliate of Columbia, but none at the college itself. Post Report.
Ramaz said anti-Israel protests and hostility toward Jewish students at Columbia have influenced his students’ decisions.
A Ramaz representative said, “Ramaz provides as much information as possible about the situation at various colleges, and we have prioritized issues related to the alarming rise in anti-Semitic incidents at some schools so that our students and their families can make informed decisions about which colleges are right for them.” Post,
Colombia has not yet commented on the development.
There has been a wave of protests at the Ivy League college since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7, 2023. The anti-war protest movement that has swept across the US, not just Columbia, has fueled heated debate about Washington’s support for Israel’s bombing of Gaza.
Last week, British-American economist Minouche Shafik resigned as president of Columbia University, citing damage caused by a “period of turmoil” after facing scrutiny over her handling of protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
She is the fourth president of an Ivy League university to step down in the wake of these protests.
In April, pro-Palestinian protesters camped on Columbia’s campus while Ms. Shafiq was testifying before a House committee investigating anti-Semitism.
Protesters — many of them Jewish themselves — said anti-Israel views were being conflated with anti-Semitism and that individual accusations of hate incidents were being used to distract attention from calls for a ceasefire.
Columbia called in the New York police to force out students occupying a building in late April, and canceled its main convocation ceremony in May.
