“I was insulted, threatened…”: the discomfort of Jewish students at Columbia, New York University

2023-11-12 09:01:10

“Yes, I’m scared,” says Lauren, 20, a student at Columbia, the emblematic New York university. “This is the first time in my life that I have been afraid to identify as Jewish,” continues this student who grew up in Boston. I am horrified by what is happening, I have been insulted, threatened on campus. I feel isolated. It’s been three weeks since I barely went to class, and my friends have abandoned me. I was even told that swastikas had been drawn on a bathroom wall. » For the young New Yorker, who says she has “been campaigning for the Palestinian cause for years”, this amounts to a betrayal.