Jewish students, come here to the South where youll be safe

Jewish students in the Ivy League, I’m here to offer an invitation: Come to the South, where you’ll be safe.It’s manifestly not safe to be an Ivy League Jew.A prominent Columbia rabbi “strongly” advised Jewish students to go home and not come back: It’s become clear “Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy,” Rabbi Elie Buechler told students this week over WhatsApp.And no wonder.

An anti-Israel protester near the Columbia campus yelled at counterprotesters holding Israeli flags, “Go back to Poland!” and “Go back to Belarus!” The marcher waved the Palestinian flag in their faces and said, “Get the hell out of here!”“Columbia is basically now Hamas with a bad football program,” one wag tweeted.If demonstrators were yelling at black students, “Go back to Africa,” President Biden would have given a national address, at least if his underlings were able to get his medications right. But as I write this, he hasn’t even tweeted.And it’s not just Columbia. At Yale, a Jewish student was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag wielded by an anti-Israel protester after fellow marchers blocked building entrances.She and a friend were singled out because they were wearing Hasidic Jewish attire and surrounded by members of the pro-Palestinian mob.

As The Post reported, the student “said she tried to report the assault to campus police but they told her there was nothing they could do.”Harvard has been just as bad. Facing a congressional probe over widespread antisemitism and failure to protect Jewish students, it’s been doing its best to stonewall. Jews who put out menorahs for Hanukkah had to take them away each night for safekeeping to avoid vandalism, but when pro-Palestinian students put up a display Harvard provided 24/7 security.Penn, even as it tries to fire professor Amy Wax for criticizing affirmative-action policie...