As further evidence that the lunatics are indeed running the asylum at Columbia University, it was announced Friday by school administrators that the NYPD would no longer be called in to assist with the anti-Israel occupiers on grounds that it only “inflamed” tensions and ultimately was “counterproductive.”
The Columbia Spectator reported the news:
The University does not plan to call the New York Police Department back to campus, University President Minouche Shafik, board of trustees co-chairs Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, and David Greenwald, Law ’83, and University Provost Angela Olinto announced in a Friday email to the community.
“We called on NYPD to clear an encampment once, but we all share the view, based on discussions within our community and with outside experts, that to bring back the NYPD at this time would be counterproductive, further inflaming what is happening on campus, and drawing thousands to our doorstep who would threaten our community,” the email reads.
The joint statement further states that the University must “enforce our own rules and ensure that those who violate the norms of our community face consequences.” The statement condemns antisemitism on and around campus and writes that “the safety situation has become concerning, particularly with the involvement of individuals not associated with Columbia.”
The announcement appears to be yet another concession to the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) group, with whom administrators have been “negotiating” since the start of the campus occupation.
Student Khymani James, who they banned Friday from campus after a January video resurfaced showing him expressing a barely repressed desire to murder Jews, was reportedly one of the group “leaders” involved in the negotiations. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) daughter, Isra Hirsi, who was suspended last week from nearby Barnard College over her participation and subsequent arrest in the Columbia protests, is also a member of the CUAD.
The CUAD is of course effectively running the show at Columbia at this point, especially when one considers an email sent from Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, at around 4 a.m. on April 24th which detailed the alleged “important progress” that had been made.
In it, she wrote in a nutshell that the power was in the CUAD’s hands, saying they had agreed to dismantle and remove some tents, ensure non-Columbia agitators would leave, would “comply” with the FDNY, and make the encampment a more welcoming environment for all voices:
So apparently Jewish students, faculty and staff, and their families were supposed to be assured that a group of hate-filled left-wing demonstrators, some of whom had expressed support for Hamas terrorists, were going to act in good faith and comply with requests from administrators to take down some of the tents, engage in civility, to “comply” with the FDNY, and to not disparage/harass Jewish students?
Yeah, right.
CUAD is now circulating a rumor that Columbia is “considering a complete lockdown of campus,” which they then proceed to whine would impact students of color and low-income students the most:
We’ll keep you updated. Stay tuned.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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