Jewish Columbia, Barnard students fume that professors canceled classes over post-election stress but not after Oct. 7: Very telling

Professors at two prestigious New York universities gave fragile students rattled by Tuesday’s election results an excuse to skip class this week — enraging their Jewish peers who were offered no such grace during months of anti-Israel campus protests where participants openly praised Hamas and hurled genocidal slogans after Oct.7.“Columbia has a serious problem with neutrality.

For an institution that claims to care so much about equality and equity, their empathy clearly doesn’t apply to the Jews,” student Eliana Goldin told The Post.“I’m sure that if Harris won, the university would not have canceled classes.”Lefty professors at Barnard and Columbia — two elite schools that became epicenters for disruptive and, at times, violent anti-Israel protests over the past year — sent warm-and-fuzzy emails to students encouraging them to take it easy Wednesday.The messages were peppered with language suggesting their pupils had just been through a tragedy in the wake of former Republican President Donald Trump’s historic defeat of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris at the polls Tuesday.

“I hope you are all taking care.I recognize that processing the results of a national election can be heavy and having space to breathe and go a bit slower is vital,” wrote Barnard professor Amelia Simone Herbert to students in her “Race, Space and Urban Schools” class.In her missive announcing class would be cut short, she obligingly offered to “remain in the room for anyone who wants to use it as a workspace or a space to reflect with others.”Columbia adjunct professor of international and public affairs Michelle Greene — whose bio says she served on the Obama administration’s White House Council on Women and Girls — announced she was canceling class altogether because it would be “tone deaf” to continue the lesson plan.“I have decided to cancel our class today.

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