A group called ‘CUA Apartheid Divest’ at Columbia University, which seems to be a coalition of different groups, has announced that they are seeking the “total eradication of Western Civilization.”
Perhaps we should take them at their word.
As Professor Jacobson and others have pointed out, the anti-Israel protests on college campuses last year were every bit as much anti-American, and they are dangerous.
The group’s Instagram page includes the words “Long live the global intifada!”
Matt Lamb of The College Fix has more on this:
Columbia group wants ‘eradication of Western civilization’A pro-Palestinian group at Columbia University wants to see the “eradication of Western civilization.”CUA Apartheid Divest made the statement yesterday on its Instagram page. The group said it backs student protesters in Bangladesh who recently toppled the sitting prime minister via violent protests.The ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina “ends 15 years in power that has been marked by a stifling of civil freedoms and the heavy-handed use of security forces to crush dissent, critics and rights groups say,” CNN reported.“Sheikh Hasina has been ousted by the people, but the revolution is not over! Long live the global intifada!” the group wrote on Instagram, along with the campus Bangladeshi student group.An accompanying graphic also stated: “We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South. Our Intifada is an internationalist one – we are fighting for nothing less than the liberation of all people.”The graphic also stated that the group “seek[s] community and instruction from militants in the Global South,” as the “fascism ingrained in American consciousness becomes ever more explicit and irrefutable.”
This is apparently the same group that took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia in the spring.
These groups are definitely anti-Israel, but that is just one aspect of their character. They are exploiting the conflict in Israel for visibility, but their goals are much more expansive. They are anti-American, anti-capitalist, radicals and their ranks are growing.
At some point, this is going to become a problem that is too big for colleges and universities to handle on their own.
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