Coddled, Pampered Elite Students Arrested, Suspended From Columbia Include UPS Exec Daughter, Democrat Interns
“It takes privilege to protest at Columbia.”
Antisemitism is alive and well at Columbia University, but after seeing what happened to the presidents of Harvard and UPenn, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik sought to protect her job during a recent hearing on the Hill. It didn’t go well.
In a completely intriguing change to the coddling of all Democrat protests, Columbia had pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protesters arrested and actually suspended (some of) them. Among the scalps claimed by the very worried Shafik were a range of privileged elite brats.
Not only was Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter arrested, but so were an intern to Letitia James and the daughter of a UPS executive—who, it turns out, already got favored treatment following her killing of an elderly couple in a car crash as a teen.
She got a $220 ticket for killing 2 people.
None of these kids have ever faced consequences in their life. That’s why they feel comfortable openly supporting terrorists, harassing Jewish students, ignoring rules, and assuming nothing will happen as a result… https://t.co/OwiSgX2fcP
— AG (@AGHamilton29) April 20, 2024
It takes privilege to protest at Columbia.
The 114 anti-Israel protesters who were busted at Columbia on Thursday include members of the upper crust: an intern for New York State Attorney General Letitia James — and the daughter of a prominent UPS executive who killed an elderly couple with her truck as a teenager and got off with a slap on the wrist.
A Post deep-dive into the backgrounds of the protesters shows many list multimillion-dollar mansions as their home addresses, according to sources, and come from wealthy and powerful families.
Minnesota congresswoman and “Squad” member Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, a Barnard student with a long history of civil disobedience, was among those cited for trespassing and taken into custody.
She was released a few hours later and declined to speak to The Post.
Also cuffed and removed from the Columbia campus was Isabel Jennifer Seward, daughter of high-ranking UPS executive William J. Seward.
. . . . Then there’s Avery Reed, a former summer intern for Letitia James who also worked part-time on “gender equality” for the Biden-Harris campaign in 2021 in Florida.
. . . . Columbia protester Isabella Guisti’s family owns a $3 million, 3,000 square-foot home in Savannah, Georgia’s posh South Historic District, complete with five bedrooms and bathrooms, according to Zillow.
Mia Roque, a sophomore political science student at Barnard, belongs to the Columbia University College Democrats — recently attended a “lobbying trip” to Washington, DC.
Protesting in support of Hamas rapists and baby beheaders has consequences, something these spoiled, pampered puppets have never experienced. Until now.
The New York Times has more (archive link):
Many of the more than 100 Columbia University and Barnard College students who were arrested after refusing to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus on Thursday woke up to a chilly new reality this week: Columbia said that their IDs would soon stop working, and some of them would not be able to finish the semester.
The students who were arrested were released with summonses. The university said all of the 100 or so students involved in the protest had been informed that they were suspended.
For some of those students, that means they must vacate their student housing, with just weeks before the semester ends.
. . . . The next several weeks will be an uncertain period for those who were arrested, as well as for the university’s leaders. Many student protesters remained defiant after the arrests and vowed to continue their demonstrations.
. . . . Police officials said the students had received summonses for trespassing. The students said they expected to make initial court appearances next month. All of the students who were at the encampment have been suspended, university officials said, though it was not clear if every student at the encampment had been arrested.
. . . . Some Barnard students said that they had received unexpected email warnings giving them 15 minutes to pack their belongings. Staff members would then escort any suspended students out of their dormitories, these students said they were told.
Some students, including Ms. Hirsi [Omar’s daughter], said they were now bouncing between friends’ apartments. She said that she would fight her interim suspension. She said she had not yet returned to her room because doing so would require going with a chaperone from Barnard’s public safety team.“I don’t really like the idea of that,” Ms. Hirsi said. “It makes me feel like more of a criminal than I think that I am.”
Meanwhile, the Times continues that Shafik is sticking to her guns (likely to keep her job as, despite the clamor from the tiny but loud pro-rapist Hamas contingent, the vast majority of Americans are—to no one’s surprise—supportive of Israel and not the savage terrorists of Hamas).
Dr. Shafik, who goes by Minouche, said in a letter on Thursday announcing her decision to summon the Police Department that the encampment had disrupted campus life and had created an atmosphere of intimidation.
Dr. Shafik said of calling in the police that she had taken “this extraordinary step because these are extraordinary circumstances.”
Unable to read the room, AOC pitched a lunatic fit about the arrests and suspensions. Because of course she did.
What is going on here @BarnardCollege @Columbia?
How does a student with no disciplinary record suddenly get to a suspension less than 24 hours after a nonviolent protest?
What merits asymmetric crackdowns on Palestinian human rights protests? https://t.co/omIFZLcvpl
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 19, 2024
And here we have a lawmaker who is clueless about the law. You don’t get a get out of jail free card on the first law violation. How depressing that I have to explain this to someone at the highest levels of the US government.
— Amy Alkon (@amyalkon) April 19, 2024
Calls for “global intifada” – not human rights. https://t.co/G9JoQLhT0G
— Tali (@Tali1363991) April 19, 2024
It was an insurrection.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 19, 2024
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Shafik has done irreparable damage to Columbia.
One could expect little else from somebody hired based on the number of boxes they could tick.
I’m getting the impression that ‘Democrats’ are quite simply our enemy.
“ “Generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the federal government can’t do to you. But it doesn’t say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.””
Barack Obama. It is his Democrat Party. And he is fundamentally at odds with our country’s founding ideals.
Oh, just skilled opportunists.
They’re not convincable, but they can be herded if we make their advantage doing what advantages us.
Anyone else notice that insane woke Karen’s seem to have invested the top echelons of universities, police departments, DA’s, Mayor’s etc and are a total disaster everywhere they land?
The use of “insane” and “woke” in the same sentence is redundant. Aside from that, you’re absolutely correct.
Change invested to infested and I totally agree.
They’re protesting against maltreatment of the Palestinians, not in favor of baby beheading.
The battle of which group is the biggest victim cannot be won because it’s conducted at the low-IQ end of the respective populations.
The thing to argue is wealth comes only from trade and wildly different groups that hate each other nonetheless make each other wealthy by trading.
They are pro-Hamas and pro-terrorist.
And a habit of finding anti-semiticism everywhere is a way to keep low-IQ Jews from assimilating. The two stay mixed up and make the who’s most oppressed impossible to argue.
At the high-IQ end you find Jewish scholarship and existing but foiled attempts to trade with Palestinians, and probably somebody on the Palestinian side too.
Which level is your clickbait going to run at?
There’s no need to “find” antisemitism when it’s right in front of you, as in this case. They are objectively antisemites. Demonstrating for the “Palestinians” is exactly like demonstrating for the Germans during WW2, and demonstrating for Hamas, as so many of them do, is exactly like demonstrating for the Nazi Party. Flying a Hamas, Fatah, or Hizballah emblem or flag is exactly like flying the swastika flag.
He’s still cutting his acre with the scythe..
Sun must of done some Neurological damage
They chant “We are Hamas. Long Live Hamas”
I saw one video of a NY protest where 2 Jewish girls were harassed by a group of masked Hamas supporters. To confirm they were indeed supporting rape and murder they shouted, “remember Oct. 7 and repeat not 10 times, not 100 times, not 1000 times, but every day”.
Makes it pretty clear that they support terrorism.
Sooner rather than later some of these leftist criminals is going to try to replicate an Oct. 7 type attack on US soil.
The video can be seen on the Powerline Blog. It is in an article titled Mob Rule at Columbia.
Don’t know how to share the Twitter video but the article says this was filmed right outside of the Columbia campus.
They already have
Seems kind of assault-y, perhaps with a hate crime escalation.
Now somebody do burning crosses in churchyards. Or, right. I forgot. We don’t get all wee-wee’d up over that one any more these days.
Okay.
You’ve no idea what is in their heads. Claiming so is absurd.
What people talk about in private is likely different than what they say in public settings.
What if phone contacts, text and email messages lead directly to known Hamas militants operating in the Middle East?
What if one wears Hamas regalia and displays Hamas symbols and placards in public?
It’s an interesting question as to who is responsible for the mistreatment/ maltreatment of Palestinians in Gaza. Is there an argument to be made that Hamas deserves responsibility for their maltreatment, by using funds intended to help those people to build fortifications and tunnels, and for building those fortifications in hospitals, schools, and mosques? Should Hamas have any responsibility for feeding their own population? I am not aware of any efforts to do so. If Hamas were not using civilian housing as defensive positions, would the Israelis have destroyed them? Did Hamas declare any safe zones where the population could shelter safely because they would not put troops or weapons there?
Exactly.
Over the years Gaza and the WB Arabs (aka the Palestinians) have received Billions+ in aid, both money and supplies from the world at large. Even from Israel itself, as apparently the modern day Palestinians despite access to funds, educations, and materials have shown as much interest in building needed infrastructure as the historical Arabs in the Lawrence of Arabia movie. Water, electricity, modern roads, it’s like a modern version of the Monty Python skit, “Whatever have the Romans/Israelis ever done for us?”.
And it’s not just the divergence of “non-military” aid to military purposes, either here. Y. Arafat, leader of the PLO, He of the Electric Shaver set to keep his beard at stubble length, when he passed had 100s of millions of aid moneys in personal accounts only he and his (American) wife (who spent weekends in Paris shopping in all the best shops using aid moneys) had access to. The remaining PLO leadership had to bargain with the wife (to get some, not all) of “their” money back. Corruption and graft are and have always been endemic to the Palestinian leadership, not a one of the top leaders doesn’t have a personal fortune diverted from aid moneys.
The pretentious pedant strikes again.
This is a surprising turn of events. Regardless that I think she made her decisions for the wrong reasons, it is still the right decision.
Red diaper babies all.
>>The students who were arrested were released with summonses
Talk about a two-tiered legal system.. They were arrested, processed and released with summonses. Anyone else (ie. conservatives, republicans, anyone considered “MAGA”, those not in favor with democrats etc.) most likely would have found themselves remanded to a jail cell for months until their trial for being a “threat to democracy” or some other such legal nonsense for pulling such stunts.
And don’t kid yourselves. Once the publicity has died down they’ll all be given the typical slap on the wrist punishment that those on the liberal left always get. Nothing much will happen. Guaranteed.
This only happened because she was going in front of Congress. When it is clear, these students will be let go easy
No, they wouldn’t. Not on a trespassing charge. That would be a blatant 8th amendment violation, and would be overturned immediately, with no qualified immunity for those responsible.
I have nothing but contempt for these posers
Some Lib federal judge will make sure their suspensions are vacated
How? What jurisdiction would a judge have over it?
IMO the President and Board of Trustees of Columbia should all be removed. I saw an interview with a Jewish student, who was clearly scared about going to class and walking on campus. Has Columbia’s leadership no shame? Their duty is to provide a safe and welcoming learning environment for all students. Given that Hamas is a designated terrorist organization, couldn’t all of these demonstrators be rolled up by the FBI and ones here on visas expelled from the country; then go after their financial sponsors for RICO violations (except that the Democrats want this)?
No, they can’t. They’re not giving Hamas material support, so they’re not committing any federal crime. And those of them who are not caught trespassing or harassing anyone, are exercising their first amendment right to advocate genocide, and can’t be penalized for it by any government entity.
“…so they’re not committing any federal crime.”
Civil rights violation? Violations by several actors could at least be charged, methinks.
“They’re not giving Hamas material support (that we know of, as yet — ed.)”, so no predicate as yet for going after these protesters under counter-terrorism. Perhpas plenty of other ways to go after these folks, including federally.
You dont know that