The Issue: A group of Jewish students who hid in the library during a pro-Palestinian protest at Cooper Union.
All New Yorkers with a conscience should be sickened by the pictures of Jewish students barricaded in the library at Cooper Union as Hamas-supporting rioters beat on the doors — to do what, exactly (“Fear U.” Oct. 26)?
Where is the outrage from every single elected federal, state and city official condemning this? That the NYPD stood by as these kids endured this siege is unthinkable.
What happened to “never forget”? It is likely that some of these students’ grandparents and great-grandparents were victims of the Holocaust.
The fact that now, in 2023, these students are experiencing a brutal, coordinated antisemitic attack in the heart of New York City, the greatest city on earth, with little pushback from Cooper Union or our elected officials is despicable. Never forget, indeed.
Carole Campolo
East Hampton
In “Message to Jews: Hide!” (Opinion, Oct. 26), John Podhoretz chillingly describes Cooper Union’s failure and refusal to protect the Jewish students hiding in the school’s library from a mob of antisemitic demonstrators.
As just one step, lawsuits should be filed against Cooper Union and the myriad other colleges and universities who have left their Jewish students unsafely exposed to the violence and vitriol of Hamas-supporting demonstrators.
Marc E. Kasowitz
Manhattan
The mob members at Cooper Union revealed the sordid truth about themselves.
In their world, there is no place for Jews, not only in Israel, but anyplace on Earth.
This new breed of Nazis must have their scholarships taken away and be expelled from school to face criminal charges.
New York in 2023 must not be allowed to degenerate into a reprise of Berlin in 1933.
Joseph Koenig
Manhattan
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The woke leftist movement in America is nothing more then a cult.
Cults use slogans, buzzwords and cliches to attract and keep followers. Check out the Nazis in Germany, the Soviets in Russia and the communist in China — all destructive cults.
They attack anyone outside of their cult. Enemies will be sent to concentration camps, gulags and re-education camps.
Our school systems and foundations are now all controlled by the woke leftist mob. What happened at the Cooper Union library should wake everyone up to the hate the woke leftists have for anyone who dares be different.
Bruce Collins
Middletown, NJ
As an alumnus of Cooper Union, I was mortified to read about the incident of the trapped Jewish students on Wednesday.
I was ashamed at the lack of action by the authorities. The college’s founder, Peter Cooper, would be turning over in his grave.
I hope that in the future, the president and her staff do a better job of protecting the rights of all students. This country is not Gaza or Russia or Iran.
Leo Rettig
Floral Park
Where are the parents? It is natural for young people to “want a cause.” But the clear and utter signs of lack of education on the “occupation of Gaza,” their inability to grasp what took place on Oct. 7 — and certainly what took place in the Holocaust — means there was some failure in both the education system and the home.
The escalation to this moment of Jewish kids hiding behind locked doors is simply untenable. I call on parents nationwide to sit your kids down and teach them the lessons they seem to have lacked while you paid precious tax dollars, or money to a private school, for their severely lacking education.
Amy Hendel
Manhattan
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