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NEW YORK - Columbia University announced on Monday the revision of its anti-discriminatory guidelines, introducing new policies explicitly addressing the use of terms like “Zionist” when employed to target Jews or Israelis, in an effort to combat antisemitism and provide clearer criteria regarding harassment. The 73-page document prohibits coded language and includes a detailed checklist for students filing complaints.

Columbia’s actions emulate those of other universities, such as NYU, which announced last month that anti-Zionist discrimination may violate its student conduct rules.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      122·
      3 months ago

      There were many Jews in the protests nobody was calling them Zionists.

      People protesting against Genocide know the difference between Zionists and Jews. The administration is just lying because they are Zionists.

      • PiousAgnostic@lemmy.world
        38·
        3 months ago

        This type of argument may make you feel better, but it doesn’t really help anything but make you think better of yourself. Listen to what others say in discourse, or they won’t listen to you.

        Far too many make enemies out of allies and hurt their own cause in the process.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
          102·
          3 months ago

          Anyone supporting israel deserves to be shamed. What’s next, inclusion for people who wave around Swastikas?

          I’m going to call a Nazi a Nazi and a Zionist a Zionist. Zionism is the name their death cult gave themself in the 1900s.

          • PiousAgnostic@lemmy.world
            15·
            3 months ago

            The problem is you want to feel better. Not change something. Some people just like feeling better than others, others like making other things better.

            • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
              6·
              3 months ago

              The problem is you want to feel better. Not change something. Some people just like feeling better than others, others like making other things better.

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      The result is a mix of honest “Zionism motivates human rights abuse against Palestinians” statements, and dishonest “Zionists control the world” statements.

      Zionists don’t control the wold, but they certainly have a lot of sway in places they shouldn’t, like the US Government, and apparently multiple Public Universities community guidelines.

    • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
      4·
      3 months ago

      and said “pro-Palestinian groups have voiced support for Hamas” (both issues that affect the non-Zionist Jewish community, and that I have personally witnessed).

      Please explain how supporting Palestinian resistance negatively effects nonzionist Jewish folks.

        • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
          3·
          3 months ago

          1. they are the majority of the forces in the United front which includes everything from communists to conservatives

          2. that didn’t answer my question at all. I will rephrase for your benefit:

          Please explain how supporting Hamas(and other Palestinian resistance) negatively effects nonzionist Jewish folks.