Columbia professors slammed over ‘grotesque’ rally that publicly backed Ivy League school’s anti-Israel protests

A group of Columbia University professors is being slammed for their “grotesque” decision to hold a rally Monday that publicly backed the antisemitic protests roiling the Manhattan Ivy League school’s campus.

Scores of professors and staff appeared on the school’s steps to support the right of the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” to take over campus space and denounce the administration’s decision to have protesters arrested.

“[It] will be remembered as a shameful day in Columbia’s history,” Asian Humanities professor David Lurie told the crowd, according to the Bwog campus blog.

The faculty members decision to back the protestors outraged Jewish groups, who said that “Encampment” is really a den of antisemities who have been abusing Jewish students.

“Professors are supposed to be teaching subjects – not misbehavior,” Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, told The Post.

“It’s a sad commentary on the kind of professors that Columbia is hiring. They’ve lowered the bar.”