Columbia’s $200 million payout: Letters

The Issue: Columbia University’s $220 settlement agreement with the Trump administration.

Columbia University’s sudden remorse for its failure to protect Jewish students and faculty members on campus is akin to a known felon who feigns sorrow when caught committing a criminal act (“The Ivy League schooled,” July 24).

Only when President Trump’s administration threatened to withhold grant support and hold its leadership accountable did Columbia express regret. Remaining silent while antisemites were given free rein on campus speaks volumes.

As Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel noted: “Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

S.P. Hersh

Lawrence

It was certainly encouraging to read about the agreement reached by the Trump administration and Columbia University. However, until the true source of this rot is removed, I fear it will be of limited success.

There are many ideologically committed members of Columbia University’s administration, teaching and admissions bureaucracy who will continue to spread their vile messages of hate. These people must be removed as well, tenured or not.

John Mancuso

Naples, Fla.

While Columbia University announced that scores of students have been disciplined, and even expelled, we know of no professors who have been punished.

It makes no sense to punish students while radical professors — the source of their antisemitism — remain employed at Columbia to indoctrinate future students.

Seymour Cohen

Manhattan

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Shai Davidai is spot on when he says that the $200 million crackdown on Columbia University is just a start (“Hate Abates?” July 24).

The real villains here are Columbia University’s radical professors, who manipulated and encouraged their clueless student-puppets into braying antisemitism and anti-American propaganda.

Sadly, most of these faculty members will holler about the First Amendment, as they hide behind their tenure.

Going forward, Columbia University needs a program to specifically address this hateful ideology when it occurs among its professors and instructors.

Frank Olivieri

North Ft. Myers, Fla.

It appears that Columbia University has finally gotten the courage to discipline anti-Israel students who created chaos and harassed Jewish students mercilessly.

Maybe Jewish students at Columbia can have some peace this coming semester, although that is high­­ly doubtful if Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor.

J.J. Levine

Miami Beach, Fla.

The Issue: The city Department of Education’s failing “restorative justice” discipline policies.

New York City always thinks throwing more money at the problem is the answer (“ ‘Restorative’ Nonsense,” Editorial, July 25).

Kids put in timeout for serious school incidents take it as a joke, and the disruption caused by their selfish behavior only hurts the students who want an education.

The Department of Education needs to impose stricter consequences for those students who disrupt classroom learning.

Joseph Valente

Staten Island

Since the 1960s, we’ve seen discipline worsen in our public schools, due to the acceptance of liberal policies.

It is long past time to begin a no-toleration policy for poor behavior.

Right now, parents must consent before their child is placed in a special-education class. With proper documentation, this must change.

Ed Greenspan

Brooklyn

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