You might’ve seen the dueling open letters from pro-Hamas and anti-Hamas Jewish students at #Columbia, but what’s striking is how the pro-Hamas letter inflates its signature count by including students from other universities, whereas the anti-Hamas letter is exclusively signed by Columbia (and Barnard) students. Over 550 Columbia/Barnard students signed the anti-Hamas letter, but if you do a ⌘F on the pro-Hamas letter, you’ll see that only *25* (19 from Columbia and 6 from Barnard) signed it.

That’s quite the ratio! I knew that Jewish students (like myself!) overwhelmingly oppose the encampments, but the numbers here are still staggering.

Wayback Machine archives of the two letters in case they’re modified in the future: https://web.archive.org/web/20240510024402/https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRQgyDhIjZupO2H-2rIDXLy_zkf76RoM-_ZIYsOfn9FkI7TETgRtOfXK9VobMvGh6iEZfDPgALXJTCR/pub?pli=1 and https://web.archive.org/web/20240510025609/https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/15x7k0OVkmIY9Pbd-ek52vwFhp24ajlQ1sTqg-JUKeZM/mobilebasic

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza

In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University