Gov. Kathy Hochul refuses to get tough with colleges that indulge antisemites

After a spring semester full of encampments on New York college campuses, chants for the death of Jews at NYU and pro-Hamas strongholds at Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, Jewish students were hoping for a quiet fall semester — at least one without Jew-hating radicals destroying their college experience.Unfortunately, the antisemites are back in full force.Cornell Professor Russell Rickford is making headlines again.He’s the one who went viral for calling the Oct.

7 massacre of over 1,200 Jews “exhilarating.”The university — as has been the case in many institutions across America — did nothing to hold him accountable.This week, he returned to campus from his voluntary leave and went right back to his old ways: He joined a student rally that marched across the campus chanting “Long Live the Intifada,” while taking over a career fair.You might be wondering: How in the heck is it possible that this terrorist-sympathizer is still gainfully employed by Cornell and right back to his old ways?Look no further than Cornell’s ex officio Board of Trustees member, New York Gov.

Hochul.The day after this professor glorified Hamas, Hochul could have picked up the phone and immediately gotten this lunatic kicked to the curb.After he was back on campus calling for the genocide of Jews this week, she could have done the same thing.She could’ve delivered a forceful condemnation of Rickford and publicly demanded the university never allow him to set foot on campus again.Hochul could have taken action to leverage funding to this institution to protect Jewish students and used her bully pulpit to rally support for the Jewish community on Cornell’s campus.Instead, some staffer issued some BS boilerplate statement, and in her eyes, that’s it: Problem solved.Her inaction — disgracefully deliberate at worst, incompetent at best — is exactly why antisemitism is spreading like wildflower across college campuses.But Hochul’s inability and unwillingness to successful...