Emhoff calls Columbia University leaders amid campus unrest

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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff held private calls with two Jewish community leaders at Columbia University earlier this week, as the college grappled with its response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

The calls with Rabbi Elie Buechler, who directs the school’s Orthodox Union-Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus, and Brian Cohen, executive director of Columbia’s chapter of Hillel, focused largely on addressing antisemitism, a White House official said.

“The Second Gentleman recognized that while every American has the right to freedom of speech and to protest peacefully, hate speech and calls for violence against Jews is both antisemitic and unacceptable,” said the official, who was granted anonymity to describe private conversations.

Emhoff, the nation’s most prominent Jewish official, also emphasized that “no student should feel unsafe on campus and offered his support on behalf of the Administration.”



https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/25/white-house-johnson-national-guard-protesters-00154374

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