Recently, the Cornell Graduate Student Union (CGSU-UE) issued a statement accusing Jews of “weaponizing antisemitism” and calling to “resist” against Israel “by any means necessary.” As a Jewish Ph.D. student with family in Israel, I am now expected, like all Cornell doctoral students, to financially support these very activists issuing these threats unless the union decides to grant me an exemption.

When students reported feeling threatened, Cornell leadership refused to intervene. Instead, its bureaucracy swept complaints from Jewish students under the rug or told us to take our concerns to a federal agency in Buffalo, N.Y., 150 miles from our campus in Ithaca, N.Y. Instead of protecting its students, Cornell opted to relinquish their responsibility to others.

The administration on

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