Poli­ti­Fact Slaps False Label On John­son’s Crit­i­cism Of Colum­bia

Amid the encamp­ment at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, Poli­ti­Fact slapped the “false” label on Speak­er Mike John­son on Mon­day for declar­ing that the school advised Jew­ish stu­dents to stay away from cam­pus. The only prob­lem is that John­son nev­er explic­it­ly claimed that they did, but rather that was the unstat­ed impli­ca­tion of their hybrid learn­ing plan.
Louis Jacob­son writes, “Lat­er, dur­ing an April 24 CNN inter­view that aired after his Colum­bia vis­it, John­son said he was stand­ing up for “Jew­ish stu­dents who are in fear of their lives, who were cow­er­ing in their apart­ments right now, who are not com­ing to class. In fact, the admin­is­tra­tion rec­og­nized the threat was so great, they can­celed class­es. Now they’ve come out wit …