After several years of complaints that Columbia University has become a breeding ground for anti-Semitism, a University comittee will issue a report saying that the exact opposite is the case. It´s the Jews that are causing all the trouble.

Columbia Panel Reports No Proof of Anti-Semitism

But the report, obtained by The New York Times and scheduled for release today, said it had found "no evidence of any statements made by the faculty that could reasonably be construed as anti-Semitic."

It did, however, describe a broader environment of incivility on campus, with pro-Israel students disrupting lectures on Middle Eastern studies and some faculty members feeling that they were being spied on.

The full report can be read here.

Certain Jewish members of the student body are not happy.

Fueling the ire was word that the university's public-affairs department leaked a copy of the report to The New York Times — which first reported the findings on its Web site — before showing it to the students who made the charges.

Sophomore Bari Weiss said the move illustrated the school's lack of respect for students.

Great follow-up here from Kesher Talk.

Among other commentary, a link is provided to Charles Jacobs of the Anti-Slavery Group and the David Project...

The report obfuscates by referring to incidents of biased, dishonest teaching in pedagogical and psychological terms. It classes them as ‘rhetorically combative’ methods or as expressions of ‘uncongenial views’ that — and the issue is reduced to this — make some students ‘uncomfortable.’ But the committee never considers the possibility that these ‘teachings’ are lies and propaganda. When Professor Massad teaches that the word ‘Zion’ means ‘penis’ and therefore Zionism is a macho movement, this is not an uncongenial view, but a lie. When at Columbia it is taught that the Jews are Nazis and the Palestinians are the new Jews, and that the Jews slaughtered Arabs in Jenin, these are not ‘rhetorically combative’ modes of teaching; they are blood libels, anti-Semitic provocations, deceptions, and Arabist propaganda.