NYC students expose 'extremist' professors fostering campus antisemitism at major universities

EXCLUSIVE: A fig of students revealed the "extremist" viewpoints held by immoderate assemblage professors that "play a role" successful fostering an antisemitic situation connected campus, condoning anti-Israel protests and maintaining a bias connection that is "not precisely thing that should beryllium promoted" astatine their respective schools.

Jewish students from NYU, Columbia, Barnard College and Baruch College sat down with Fox News Digital during an exclusive interrogation and exposed the "disturbing things" that person been said by professors astatine immoderate of the apical schools successful New York City and successful the U.S.

"I’ve had galore peers stock precise disturbing things that professors person said successful class, whether it’s successful courses specifically related to Middle Eastern authorities oregon successful classes that should beryllium wholly absolved of thing happening successful the Middle East," TJ Katz of Columbia explained.

"We've had professors outcry astatine students, not enactment students," Mera Skoblo of NYU told Fox.

Jewish students from respective apical New York City universities told Fox News Digital that immoderate professors are promoting extremist, antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric successful classrooms, creating a hostile situation for Jewish students. (Indy Scholtens/Getty Images)

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"Just the beingness of these professors connected campus, you know, a batch of them connected their offices person signs saying things like, hands disconnected our students, and they person escaped Palestine signs connected their doorways," Eliana Birman of Barnard explained.

"I had professors that were antisemitic," Aidan Herlinger of Baruch told Fox. "I cognize students that person had professors that are antisemitic, we are enactment successful positions wherever we can’t bash thing astir it, due to the fact that it could outgo america our grade."

"We request to extricate extremists from the classroom, bash departmental audits," Shoshana Aufzien of Barnard added.

Anti-Israel protesters question Palestinian flags successful Washington Square Park successful New York City connected Friday, May 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

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Columbia University has been 1 of the astir notorious campuses that has faced anti-Israel riots and demonstrations. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught connected Israel, hundreds of students and non-students person been arrested arsenic a effect of riots.

NYU faced similar, though little intense, protests connected its NYC campus, including a Dec. 12, 2024, objection extracurricular the university’s room wherever protesters called for an "intifada revolution" saying that "Tel Aviv is stolen land."

Skoblo outlined her fears arsenic a Jewish pupil connected campus, saying that "a batch of america are scared."

A pro-Gaza ceasefire structure encampment astatine Columbia University connected April 28, 2024. (Getty Images)

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"The past 2 years connected assemblage campuses crossed New York City person been hard for Jewish students," Skoblo told Fox. "Some of america fell our identities. We've been screamed at. We've been blocked retired of our ain room during finals week."

"How are we expected to survey erstwhile we perceive chanting that shouts towards our destruction, makes america consciousness unsafe and unheard," Skoblo added.

When asked if module influenced oregon pressured students to follow a circumstantial stance successful the Middle Eastern conflict, Aiden Herlinger from Baruch College said, "I deliberation the professors decidedly play a role."

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While the students explained that antisemitism has existed connected assemblage campuses for immoderate time, students noted that the caller emergence successful tensions and anti-Israel rhetoric that came aft Oct. 7, 2023, could beryllium attributable to professors indoctrinating oregon influencing students to enactment successful demonstrations, immoderate of which turned convulsive and led to expulsions, suspensions and arrests.

Police arrested much than 100 students astatine New York University who were protesting successful enactment of students astatine Columbia University and to reason Israel's attacks connected Gaza. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

As for the consequences these professors whitethorn look for being accused by their ain students of indoctrinating, Herlinger said determination volition apt beryllium none.

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"[Professors are] not going to look immoderate consequences, particularly successful a schoolhouse similar Baruch that's a nationalist school, and it's funded by the New York State government, and New York City government," Herlinger added.

"These are conscionable professors that are not going to look consequences."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the schools for comment.

Preston Mizell is simply a writer with Fox News. Story tips tin beryllium sent to [email protected] and connected X @MizellPreston Fox News' Tessa Hoyos contributed to this report.