There’s only one thing the Washington Free Beacon loves more than exposing the rank anti-Semitism of Ivy League administrators: exposing the bigotry of a trio of Ivy League administrators on the same day.
The Free Beacon couldn’t have done it without the help of the righteous Columbia graduate who snapped photos of four Columbia deans exchanging hostile text messages about their colleagues during a panel on Jewish life.
The deans used vomit emojis to describe a rabbi’s op-ed, mocked the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and accused Brian Cohen, the head of Columbia Hillel, of milking the moment for "$$$$."
Fortunately for the Jewish people, the crafty Columbia graduate was sitting behind them and capturing their every text. After the Free Beacon published photographs of the messages, administrators Susan Chang-Kim, Cristen Kromm, and Matthew Patashnick were placed on leave and permanently stripped of their posts. All three resigned on August 8.
Nobody’s perfect, and our unsung hero was unable to dislodge a fourth administrator—the dean of Columbia College, Josef Sorett—who took part in the bigoted banter. The silver lining is that Sorett has a proven talent for humiliating his university. When a Free Beacon reporter knocked on his door to ask about the text messages, for example, Sorett—who has advocated for defunding the police—called the cops on her.
We can’t imagine a better avatar of academic hypocrisy. Maybe the Trump administration will give him a shout-out when it revokes Columbia’s federal funding.
For exposing the Ivy League as a hive of hypocrites and anti-Semites, Mazel Tov, mystery photographer, you are not just a Tzadik but a Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.
