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Why I’m choosing to teach genocide law at Columbia despite antisemitism on campus

JL;DR SUMMARY Menachem Z. Rosensaft articulates his decision to continue teaching genocide law at Columbia University despite concerns of antisemitism, contrasting with Deborah Lipstadt's decision to decline a teaching opportunity there for similar reasons. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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EducationJewish StudentsDeborah LipstadtHolocaust EducationGenocideAnti Israel ProtestsAcademic IntegrityColumbia UniversityMenachem Rosensaft

Places mentioned

Columbia, New York, United States
"I am continuing and planning on continuing to teach about genocide at Columbia Law School despite the antisemitism that has plagued the university for the past year and a half."
London, United Kingdom
"she defeated a notorious Hitler-loving Holocaust denier in a London court of law."
United Kingdom
"and intellectual integrity. The academics academic, she defeated a notorious Hitler-loving Holocaust denier in a London court of law."
New York, United States
"The same holds true for the universitys faculty, administrators and staff. I do not want to abandon them at the very moment when they are most in need of support."
Morningside, New York, United States
"the type that have plagued the Morningside campus since Oct. 7, 2023."
Cornell, New York, United States
"I am also an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School, where I teach about antisemitism in the courts and in jurisprudence."
Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"and with whom I had the privilege to serve for many years on the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum."
Barnard, New York, United States
"I have also taken the universitys alumni magazine sharply to task for ignoring the exploding antisemitism at Columbia. Like Professor Lipstadt, I am outraged by the Barnard administrators kowtowing behavior toward student protesters last week."
United States
"In the final analysis, this is why I continue to teach at Columbia: the students. And not only the Jewish students."

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