In January, a group of students barged into a Columbia University class on the history of Israel and caused a disturbance. Two of them were students at Columbia’s sister school, Barnard College, and were expelled.
This week, in retaliation for this, a much larger group of similar students took over a building at Columbia and injured a school employee in the process. The standoff ended when the school threatened to bring in the NYPD, but not before they caused all kinds of mayhem.
To make matters worse, the school stupidly tried to negotiate with them.
Jessica Cotescu of the Washington Free Beacon was at the scene:
WATCH: Columbia Radicals Storm Campus Building in Protest of Expelled Barnard StudentsA mob of Columbia University and Barnard College students stormed a campus building Wednesday afternoon in protest of the expulsion of two Barnard students.Video footage of the storming of a Barnard campus building, Milbank Hall, shows droves of keffiyeh-clad student radicals shoving their way into a building entrance, physically clashing with at least two outnumbered Barnard security guards. Once inside, the agitators chanted “free Palestine” and “intifada, revolution.”The expulsions, announced Sunday by Columbia University Apartheid Divest—the Ivy League’s most notorious anti-Semitic student group—stemmed from a January incident in which four student radicals stormed an Israeli history class and targeted Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers that glorified Hamas, showed a trampled Star of David, and advocated violence. Columbia promptly suspended at least one student protester involved.One flyer passed out to Jewish students stated, “THE ENEMY WILL NOT SEE TOMORROW,” using an upside-down triangle—a symbol that Hamas uses to denote Israeli targets—to spell “TOMORROW.” The flyer depicted a truck full of Hamas terrorists brandishing RPGs and machine guns.
How many more times do we have to watch this same thing play out?
This was just embarrassing.
The students were mocking the school for capitulating to them.
Some students just wanted to go to class.
The invaders eventually left.
Harmeet Dhillon, Trump’s pick for civil rights at DOJ, is likely to be confirmed. If she is, we may finally see this issue get addressed in a meaningful way.
From the Washington Free Beacon:
DOJ Will Crack Down on Campus Anti-Semitism, Trump Nominee for Civil Rights Division SaysThe Department of Justice will take aggressive action against rising anti-Semitism on college campuses throughout the United States, Harmeet Dhillon said Wednesday at her confirmation hearing for assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.”We’ve seen anti-Semitism sweep the nation, and it is very problematic that many people of the Jewish faith are barred by professors and fellow students from access to the classroom,” Dhillon told Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Featured image via Twitter video by Jessica Cotescu.
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