Two back-to-back Spectator articles reflected on Columbia’s relationship with Jews.
Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust studies, wrote about University President Nicholas Murray Butler, who invited Nazi ambassador Hans Luther to campus in December 1933, insisting, against student protests, that Luther “‘represented the government of a friendly people,’ and therefore was ‘entitled to be received . . . with the greatest courtesy and respect.’”
In his article, Medoff insists that “it is still not too late for Columbia to acknowledge its mistake and make amends.”
A day earlier, Tanveer Ali reported on the Orthodox Jewish contingent at Columbia in “A Welcome Home for Orthodoxy.”
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