Barnard College is facing backlash for inviting United Nations official Francesca Albanese to speak on campus this week. Albanese has blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and compared Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.
A pro-Israel U.N. watchdog is urging Columbia University’s sister school to cancel Albanese’s Wednesday speech, warning that inviting the “internationally condemned anti-Semite” contributes to the “egregiously anti-Semitic hostile educational environment” on campus. The Wednesday event is hosted by Barnard’s human rights, economics, and anthropology departments, the New York Post reported.
“This is exactly the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that has led to allegations of Columbia fostering an egregiously anti-Semitic hostile educational environment, and to allegations of the harassment, threats, and intimidation against Jewish and Israeli students,” UN Watch executive…