# 2023-10-26 (approx) Columbia Sidechat

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* **When:** 2023-10-26
* **Where:** Columbia University
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* Columbia college students used Sidechat, an app for anonymous posting on college campuses, to post antisemitic and hateful speech that called for violence and death against Jewish, Israeli people and those who support Israel. 
* A Columbia student wrote, “All you zionists out there? You are the modern day Hitler.” See [__photo__](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qXmhoXPPspWvFxmvB7T9MtZbBbscg7to/view?usp=drive_link).  
* A Columbia student wrote, “If you support Israel you are a piece of filth not even worthy of being called a human…I wish you enormous pain & suffering.” See [__photo__](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qXWq78s8FGl4amdvbvKaiBjo9D96sejH/view?usp=drive_link).  
* A Columbia student wrote, “I sincerely hope any IDF veterans (and this includes David Ben Naim, currently “proudly” serving) die a slow death.” See [__photo__](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qz2hxZvWKwCirUhl1CoJHpOiZh0a8_ql/view?usp=drive_link).  
* For context, David Ben Naim is a current Columbia student
* A Columbia student who saw this posting reported it to the FBI Hate Crime phone number, but did not hear back
* This language may be considered Behavioral Violations (Harassment) of Columbia University’s Policy.  See [__policy__](https://cssi.columbia.edu/content/behavioral-violations).  

This may have violated Columbia University’s Code of Conduct, which states “Refrain from behavior that intentionally or recklessly endangers, threatens, or causes physical or emotional harm to any person, or that intentionally or recklessly causes reasonable apprehension of such harm.” See [__policy__](https://www.ccis.edu/about/policies/student-code-of-conduct#:\~:text=Respect%20the%20rights%20and%20property,encourage%20responsible%20conduct%20in%20others.).

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