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Columbia University Faculty Open Letter in Support of President Lee C. Bollinger’s Comments on College Student Vote on Israel, September 29, 2020

On September 29, 2020 President Bollinger made clear in a statement that he does not support an anti-Israel referendum which the Columbia College student body voted to recommend to the University. 

We, the undersigned Columbia faculty, stand with President Bollinger in opposing this referendum. Our president joins many university leaders who in recent months have also denounced such pro-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) resolutions and referendum on their own campuses as both divisive and lacking in merit. As President Bollinger correctly noted earlier this year, the BDS referendum and its recommendation that the University should divest from a number of international companies that do business in Israel is unwise, analytically flawed, and violates a sense of fairness and proportionality. 

We further write in appreciation of President Bollinger’s forceful and unequivocal declaration against bigotry and prejudice, which he delivered to the Senate Plenary on March 6, 2020. We applaud our president’s condemnation of antisemitism in all its many forms. We also support his principled opposition to the rhetoric and activism of the BDS movement, which singles out and applies a double standard to Israel and often manifests itself as an intolerant attack on Jewish beliefs and identity. 

As faculty across all ranks who research and teach on the Columbia campus, we are committed to fostering a learning community that respects free inquiry, intellectual engagement, and open exchange. We believe that our University thrives on debate and dissent over complex and contentious local, national, and global issues and challenges. We recognize that a critically engaged student body is essential to advancing Columbia’s educational mission. Still, as President Bollinger rightly reminds us, we must be “careful and vigilant” lest the “vast and ever-present debate about Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, the Middle East” turn into “anger, then to hatred and demonization, and invidious discrimination.” When valid disagreement deteriorates in this way, we must work even harder, as President Bollinger insists, to “ensure that the debates we have about debatable matters be done in good faith and with a sense of shared humanity, and with respect.” 

Fewer than half of students in Columbia College reportedly voted for the BDS referendum, and it is unlikely to have any effect on the University’s investment policies. Nevertheless, we are concerned that this resolution will adversely affect the campus climate for many Jewish students who support Israel. We stand ready to work with President Bollinger and others in the Columbia senior leadership to improve the campus climate for all students, including Jewish students. We encourage President Bollinger to implement a remedial action plan for the campus, with concrete and measurable goals. 

SIGN THE COLUMBIA FACULTY OPEN LETTER IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT LEE C. BOLLINGER’S COMMENTS ON COLLEGE STUDENT VOTE ON ISRAEL AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

Initial signatories are members of the Academic Engagement Network:

Ann P. Bartel, Columbia Business School

Steven Cohen, School of International and Public Affairs

William Eimicke, School of International and Public Affairs

Awi Federgruen, Columbia Business School 

Ester R. Fuchs, School of International and Public Affairs 

Trevor Harris, Columbia Business School  

Judith S. Jacobson, Mailman School of Public Health

Ran Kivetz, Columbia Business School 

Nicholas Lemann, Columbia Journalism School

Oded Netzer, Columbia Business School 

David M. Schizer, Columbia Law School 

Clifford S. Stein, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Newest Columbia faculty member signatories:

Michael Weinstein

Paul Appelbaum

Frances Levin

Dusan Boric

Assaf Zeevi

Charles Freilich

Art Smerling

Babi Kruchin

Daniel Bienstock

Elias Bareinboim

Richard Pious

Donald Weiss

Joan Birman

Zohar Goshen

Gorazd Rosoklija

Ben Jacobs

Joseph Tenenbaum

Oscar Lebwohl

Hanina Hibshoosh

Allen Hyman

Alex Dranovsky

Jeanne Stellman

Richard Friedman

Marc Bessler

Irving Herman

Ira Lamster

Joel Friedman

Yaakov Stern

Jessica Forman

Paulette Bernd

Linda Green

Ari Goldman

Michael Rosen

Richard Kay

Haim Waisman

Michael Goldberg

Ira Tabas

Michael D. Gershon

Jill Shapiro

Tove Rosen

Irving Kalet

Matthew Waxman

Eugene Ornstein

Robert Shapiro

Anne Gershon

Paul Kurlansky

Robert Braunstein

Steve Mackey

Arthur Magun

Conrad Blum

Jeffrey Moses

LeRoy Elazar Rabbani

Helen Towers

Ruth Treiber MD

Daniel Guetta

Margaret Ravits

Eric Abrahamson

Brent Stockwell

Melissa Stockwell

Shai Davidai

Paul Glasserman

Lori Zeltser

Alex Raskolnikov

Mattan Griffel

Stanley Fahn

Jonathan Javitch

Ruth Raphaeli-Slivko

Michael Weiss

Ethel Siris

Neal Hurwitz

Warren Widmann

Amy Rosenthal

Charles Halasz

Melvin Weiss

Bruce Kogut

Barry Farber

Susan Steinberg

Daniel Bienstock

Jonathan Gross

Yaakov Stern

Neil Schluger

Nehama Bersohn

Irene Finel-Honigman

John Donaldson

Martin Leib

Ruth Raphaeli

Myron L Cohen

Gerald Appel

Ehud Krongrad

Shonni Silverberg

George Fletcher

Stuart Firestein

Linda Green

Art Smerling

William Schechter

Jeffrey Ascherman

George Fletcher

Ben Jacobs

Michael Shelanski

Lori Zeltser

Mitchell Berman