Holocaust Remembrance Center president compares anti-Israel mobs at Columbia to Nazis at German university [Video]

The ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations at elite U.S. colleges and universities are exactly what happened in Germany in the 1920s, just years before Nazis took over the country, according to the head of the Holocaust museum.

Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, wrote a letter to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik on Friday, April 26, to warn her about potential consequences should the anti-Israeli sentiment continue to foster and grow.

“Heidelberg University in Germany was not less prestigious than Columbia,” Dayan wrote. “In the 1920s it was a center of liberal thinking. A decade later a mob of Heidelberg students burned Jewish and other ‘corrupt’ books in Universitätsplatz (‘University Square’). Its faculty developed pseudo-academic fields like race theory, eugenics and forced euthanasia. Heidelberg did have administrators. Unfortunately, it lacked moral leadership.”

He added: “The Jewish People was dispersed for two millennia, subject to persecutions, forced conversions, discrimination, pogroms and …