Listen up, America. While the rest of us were busy building this country and defending freedom, the sniveling elites at Columbia University were too occupied playing footsie with radical leftists to notice their campus turning into a petri dish for antisemitism. On December 9, 2025, these ivory tower geniuses finally dropped their fourth and final report from the so-called Task Force on Antisemitism—a 70-page confession that’s less a white paper and more a white flag of surrender. Titled “The Classroom Experience at Columbia: Protecting the Academic Freedom of Faculty and Students,” it’s a damning indictment of how professors and administrators let Jew-hatred fester like a bad rash, singling out Jewish and Israeli kids for scapegoating while hiding behind “academic freedom.” This isn’t some fringe gripe; it’s a full-blown crisis where the people in charge fiddled while the hate burned. And if you think this stops at Morningside Heights, think again—it’s a warning shot for every campus in the land of the free.
The Setup: A Task Force That Finally Admits the Obvious
Columbia’s been ground zero for campus chaos since the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities lit the fuse on anti-Israel mania. Protests, encampments, disruptions—it was like a bad remake of the 1960s, but with more keffiyehs and fewer principles. The task force, stacked with co-chairs like Ester Fuchs, Nick Lemann, and David Schizer, spent two years chatting up students, faculty, and staff through listening sessions in spring 2024 and surveys in 2024 and 2025. They dug into academic freedom, laws, and history, only to conclude what any sane person already knew: Jewish kids are getting hammered in classrooms, and the suits upstairs did squat about it until Uncle Sam threatened to yank 400 million bucks in federal funding back in March 2025. By July 2025, Columbia caved with sweeping reforms to dodge the axe, but this report shows the rot runs deep.
Classroom Carnage: Singling Out Jews Like It’s Open Season
The revelations in this report read like a horror show scripted by the Squad. Jewish and Israeli students weren’t just ignored—they were targeted, scapegoated, and humiliated in ways that would make any red-blooded American puke. Picture this: An Israeli vet who served in the IDF sits in class while the prof labels the army a bunch of “murderers,” then points right at her and says she’s one of them. Or a Jewish kid getting hit with, “It’s such a shame that your people survived in order to commit mass genocide.” Yeah, that’s the “enlightened” discourse at a school charging six figures a year.
It gets worse. In a mandatory intro course for over 400 public health freshmen, the instructor rants about three big Jewish donors “laundering blood money,” calls Israel the “so-called Israel,” and brushes off complaints as whining from “privileged white students.” Another prof drags an Israeli student with, “You must know a lot about settler colonialism. How do you feel about that?” and dubs another an “occupier.” Private emails objecting to biased teaching? Read aloud in class, dissected like a frog in bio lab. And don’t get me started on the falsehoods peddled as fact: Claims that Hamas’s sexual violence was “exaggerated or fabricated,” Theodor Herzl was an antisemite, or Eastern European Jews aren’t “really Jewish.” This isn’t education; it’s indoctrination with a side of venom.
The hate spilled over into unrelated classes—astronomy kicking off with Gaza “genocide” talk, introductory Arabic using “The Zionist lobby is the most supportive of Joe Biden” as vocab, even feminism, photography, architecture, music, and nonprofit management getting hijacked for anti-Israel screeds. Professors canceled classes so kids could protest, held sessions in encampments where “Zionists” were persona non grata, and moved lessons off-campus for political pep rallies. One Israeli prof’s class on Zionism got stormed by masked goons chanting for an “intifada revolution,” forcing cancellations and building occupations. These weren’t isolated flubs; they happened too often, turning classrooms into exclusion zones for anyone with a Star of David.
The Middle East Mess: A Faculty Full of One-Sided Hacks
Zoom in on Middle East studies, and it’s a dumpster fire of bias. The report flat-out admits Columbia has zero full-time tenure-line faculty in history, politics, political economy, or policy who aren’t explicitly anti-Zionist. Every single one treats Zionism as “fundamentally illegitimate,” churning out courses overrun with historical revisionism and harsh condemnations of Israel. Students seeking a balanced view? Tough luck—options are slim to none, with the disrupted Zionism class being a rare outlier. This isn’t diversity; it’s a monopoly on hate, marginalizing pro-Zionist voices and starving Jewish and Israeli topics of resources compared to other regions. The task force calls it out as a glaring gap, but it took years of chaos to even acknowledge.
Culpable Cowards: How Officials Let the Wolves Run the Henhouse
Now, the real gut-punch: University bigwigs bear the blame for this fiasco. Professors got away with murder—figuratively—because tenure shielded them like a force field, and accountability was as rare as a conservative in the faculty lounge. Few, if any, got dinged; most are still teaching, spouting the same poison. Leadership stayed mum on faculty cozying up to exclusionary protests, treating it like a “delicate matter” instead of the civil rights violation it was. Acting President Claire Shipman patted the task force on the back in her December 9 message, touting “thoughtful and effective changes” over two years, but the report screams otherwise. They only moved when the Trump admin froze that federal cash in March 2025, forcing compliance by July. Before that? Crickets while Jewish kids suffered.
Officials failed to enforce basics: Sticking to subject matter, protecting private comms, banning harassment. They let profs peddle non-expert bile in media and social media—condoning atrocities, trotting out antisemitic tropes—outraging students without consequence. The report warns against boycotts of Israeli unis like Tel Aviv, calling them antithetical to academic freedom, but Columbia’s brass dragged their feet until the feds twisted arms. This isn’t oversight; it’s complicity, turning a blind eye while radicals hijacked the institution.
The Fix: Recommendations That Better Stick This Time
The task force doesn’t just whine—it demands action. Top of the list: Pump up intellectual diversity in Middle East studies by hiring non-anti-Zionist tenure-track profs pronto, including senior chairs. Implement classroom shields: No disruptions, no harassment, no pressuring kids into protests, no stereotypes or unannounced hot-button topics in required courses. Pre-enroll warnings if material might exclude folks. Balance free speech max-out with anti-discrimination laws—no censorship, but no bigotry either. Slam the door on boycotts targeting Israel, and discourage faculty from spewing ignorant hate online. Apply uniform policies protecting Jews and Israelis as a class, and fold in past recommendations for a full-court press against antisemitism.
America, this report is a wake-up call from the belly of the beast. Columbia’s elites let radicalism rot the core, scapegoating Jews while preaching tolerance. But with real reforms kicking in post-2025 funding deal, maybe—just maybe—they’ll clean house. If not, it’s time to starve the beast: Pull the plugs on federal dollars until these campuses remember who built this country. Jews deserve better than to be cannon fodder in the left’s culture war. Fight back, or watch the Ivy League become the Poison Ivy League for good.