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

Professors astatine 2 prestigious New York universities gave vulnerable students rattled by Tuesday’s predetermination results an excuse to skip people this week — enraging their Jewish peers who were offered nary specified grace during months of anti-Israel field protests wherever participants openly praised Hamas and hurled genocidal slogans aft Oct. 7.

“Columbia has a superior problem pinch neutrality. For an institution that claims to attraction truthful overmuch astir equality and equity, their empathy intelligibly doesn’t use to nan Jews,” student Eliana Goldin told The Post.

“I’m judge that if Harris won, nan assemblage would not person canceled classes.”

Lefty professors astatine Barnard and Columbia — 2 elite schools that became epicenters for disruptive and, astatine times, violent anti-Israel protests complete nan past twelvemonth — sent warm-and-fuzzy emails to students encouraging them to return it easy Wednesday.

The messages were peppered pinch connection suggesting their pupils had conscionable been done a calamity successful nan aftermath of erstwhile Republican President Donald Trump’s historic conclusion of Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris astatine nan polls Tuesday.

“I dream you are each taking care. I admit that processing nan results of a nationalist predetermination tin beryllium dense and having abstraction to respire and spell a spot slower is vital,” wrote Barnard professor Amelia Simone Herbert to students successful her “Race, Space and Urban Schools” class.

In her missive announcing people would beryllium trim short, she obligingly offered to “remain successful nan room for anyone who wants to usage it arsenic a workspace aliases a abstraction to bespeak pinch others.”

Columbia adjunct professor of world and nationalist affairs Michelle Greene — whose bio says she served connected nan Obama administration’s White House Council connected Women and Girls — announced she was canceling people altogether because it would beryllium “tone deaf” to proceed nan instruction plan.

“I person decided to cancel our people today. The existent events would make it difficult to ore connected factorial ANOVA, and though I had planned an replacement speech connected modern polling methods and their unsighted spots, it feels a spot tone-deaf to present it today,” Greene wrote.

“Be bully to yourselves, cheque successful connected your friends,” she urged.

Barnard subordinate professor of master believe Marjorie Folkman took nan accommodating measurement of making her people optional connected Wednesday truthful students could “use people clip to link pinch friends, loved ones, slumber for an hr to drawback up [or] return a walk.”

Goldin started a thread connected X successful which she shared screenshots of immoderate professors’ delicately worded emails, including 1 successful which students were told “everyone will get information points” aft a reappraisal convention was made optional pursuing nan election.

Goldin said location were “numerous” different classes canceled nan time aft nan election, though professors didn’t straight specify their actions were tied to Trump’s runaway predetermination victory.

“But it’s easy to publication betwixt nan lines,” she said.

Some professors weren’t truthful speedy to dainty students pinch kid gloves, for illustration Columbia psychology professor George Bonanno, who was adamant he wouldn’t beryllium canceling classes.

“I honestly deliberation that nan intelligence wellness of students is measurement overblown. They don’t crumble arsenic overmuch arsenic group deliberation they do,” he told The Post, noting that he voted for Harris.

One CU student who wished to stay anonymous retired of fearfulness of reprisals told The Post they had 1 people nixed Wednesday but that it was “business arsenic usual” nan remainder of nan day.

“The professor sent retired nan memo around an hr earlier Pennsylvania was called for Trump by nan Decision Desk,” they said.

Other students said they understood nan determination to suspend classes.

“It’s important to beryllium astir group you spot erstwhile large things happen,” a female Columbia student said, admitting she was “not very focused” connected her studies pursuing nan election.

‘Very telling’

But for Jewish students, galore of whom consciousness nan schoolhouse inadequately responded to antisemitic protests connected campus complete nan past year, nan move to scupper classes successful ray of predetermination time feels retired of proportion.

A Columbia student wearing a metallic Star of David pendant who declined to springiness his sanction ripped nan prestigious institution for what he called its well-established “double standard” erstwhile it comes to Jewish students’ safety.

He said he disagreed pinch nan assemblage excusing students from people owed to election-related stress.

“People are stressed because of homework. It’s portion of life. Get utilized to it,” he told The Post.

“This is wherever nan double modular comes in. You are protecting group because of stress, but erstwhile you person respective Jewish students say, ‘Hey, not only are we stressed but we fearfulness for our lives,’ not erstwhile did they cancel classes,” he said.

“Not until nan fearfulness came done and students took complete nan building,” he said successful reference to nan April 30 occupation and vandalism of Columbia’s historical Hamilton Hall.

A Columbia School of Engineering postgraduate student said nan university’s differing approaches to students’ post-election accent revealed a batch astir nan university’s priorities.

“It’s very telling that immoderate successful nan Columbia organization consciousness much threatened by nan results of a antiauthoritarian predetermination than by openly convulsive panic sympathizers threatening to pain down Western civilization,” he said.

“I, for illustration galore of my Jewish and Israeli peers, person been intimidated by some students and faculty.”

While professors Herbert, Green and Folkman did not instantly respond to a petition for comment, a Columbia spokesperson told The Post Thursday it had “no reports of canceled classes.

“Columbia module and students were successful people yesterday and our world schedule was afloat underway arsenic usual.”