NYC: Columbia University’s Barnard College bans student dorm room door signs promoting Jew-hatred

Barnard College has mandated that students remove any and all decorations featuring messages from their dorm rooms as a way to avoid “isolating those who have different views and beliefs” — just days after it was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of allowing anti-Semitism to run rampant.

NY Post (h/t Nita)   Students at the New York City campus have until Wednesday to remove dry-erase boards, decorations, or messaging affixed to their doors, according to a letter sent out on Friday by Barnard College Dean Leslie Grinage and obtained by The Post.

“While many decorations and fixtures on doors serve as a means of helpful communication amongst peers, we are also aware that some may have the unintended effect of isolating those who have different views and beliefs,” Grinage wrote.

“The goal is to be as clear as possible about the guardrails, and, meeting the current moment, do what we can to support and foster the respect, empathy and kindness that must guide all of our behavior on campus,” she added.

The school did not state what repercussions students could face if they don’t adhere to the new policy, which was first reported by the Columbia Spectator school newspaper. Bernard had previously cracked down on two students who hung a Pro-Palestinian banner outside the quad in December, with a disciplinary proceeding underway.

Jewish students sue Columbia University over ‘severe and pervasive’ anti-Semitism.

NY Post The lawsuit — filed by five students and two nonprofits — alleges that Columbia has not substantially intervened as Jewish hate intensified on campus in the months since the Middle Eastern war broke out.

“Columbia, one of America’s leading universities, has for decades been one of the worst centers of academic antisemitism in the United States,” documents filed in Manhattan federal court states.