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End the protest chaos on NY campuses: Letters to the Editor — Mar. 3, 2025

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02.03.2025

The Issue: Pro-Palestinian protests across New York campuses including Barnard College and City College.

Jews used to strive to get into schools like Barnard (“U. encourage hateful idiots,” Kristen Fleming, Feb. 28).

Studying at these schools was the pinnacle of achievement and a ticket to the professions and the upper-middle class. Now these schools are hotbeds of antisemitism. Young people and their parents should think twice going there.

Also, alumni should not give any money in response to the colleges’ tepid response that protests, violence, vandalism and trespass are “matters of free speech.”

The young Jews of today need to look elsewhere for quality colleges that do not denigrate their existence.

Mark Seitelman

Manhattan

Laura Rosenbury is the dean of Barnard College. Eric Adams is the mayor of New York City and Kathy Hochul is the governor of New York. Are they all asleep in........

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