Columbia Administration Does Nothing as Anti-Israel Protesters Overrun Law School and Cause Disruptions
“disrupted nearby classes for nearly three hours and violated several school policies”
Lots of schools have problems like this right now but Columbia is in a class of its own.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Columbia Administrators Stand By as Anti-Israel Protesters Overrun Law School and Disrupt Classes
Administrators at Columbia Law School stood by for hours on Thursday as anti-Israel protesters took over the law school’s lobby, refusing to shut down an unauthorized demonstration that disrupted nearby classes for nearly three hours and violated several school policies. The law school has said nothing about whether the demonstrators will suffer any consequences.
The protest, part of which was captured on video, caused such a ruckus that Menachem Weiss, a third-year law student, left class to see what was going on. Standing beneath a banner that read “ceasefire now,” which had been hung from a second-floor balcony, student protesters used a megaphone to broadcast their demands to the university.
The students, members of the Columbia Law Coalition for a Free Palestine, called on administrators to announce an economic boycott of the Jewish state and acknowledge that “students of color are endangered by Public Safety and law enforcement.” They also demanded the establishment of a “Center for Palestinian Legal Studies” and a “task-force to protect students from Islamophobia.”
“It was so loud I couldn’t focus,” Weiss told the Washington Free Beacon. Along with four other students, he tracked down the law school’s associate dean of student services, Yadira Ramos-Herbert, and asked her to restore order.
See below:
THREAD: Beginning at around 2:40pm, students unfurled a banner with the words "Free Palestine," "Divest Now," and "Ceasefire Now" in the lobby of @ColumbiaLaw's main building and spoke into a megaphone, disturbing ongoing classes and violating school policy, a source tells me. pic.twitter.com/LgexfextIr
— Zach Kessel (@zach_kessel) November 16, 2023
Featured image via Twitter video.
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Comments
Identify them as Nazis and use water cannons.
20mm Oerlikon cannon would be my preference.
They are so pathetic because they are so ignorant, yet act like they know it all. They will be crappy lawyers.
How about naming the members of the “Columbia Law Coalition for a Free Palestine.”
Then see if any of the >200 BigLaw firms who signed the open letter condemning antisemitism at elite law schools have offers out to any of them, and if any of these firms wind up hiring any of them.
Then watch the staggering hypocrisy by both camps.
These so called protesters should be arrested for disturbing the peace
Let’s see if all those law firms have the balls to demand that unless Columbia identifies who the perpetrators were, and if students expels them immediately and if non-students demands that they be prosecuted for criminal trespass, the firms will hire no one from Columbia for the next 5 years. Let’s see if the federal judges who offered clerkships to Columbia students have the balls to require that as a condition for starting their clerkships, these applicants sign an affidavit under penalties of perjury that they did not participate in this riot.
I would like to see NO law Firms hiring any of these so-called protestors !
It is positively disgraceful that Columbia allows this and the protestors are nothing but ignorant, racist, antisemitic fools.
Does not the NYS Bar have a requirement for the Dean certifying X hours of attendance at course instruction?
The Dean could declare that the hours of disruption prevented an educational environment and schedule a make up set of classes for Saturday afternoon, with mandatory attendance taken. This would apply to all students, not just protestors. That would make the demonstrators very unpopular with their classmates and would guarantee that there will not be any repeat of disruptive demonstrations.
One could argue that it is the Dean’s duty to schedule make up classes. I would also expect the Dean to reject “the demands.”