Members of Congress Urge FBI to Investigate Anti-Israel Group at Columbia for Allegedly Endorsing Violence
“calls for an FBI investigation into the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) student group”
This is where things get real. When Congress is finally moved to act, you know it’s serious.
Campus Reform reports:
FBI urged to investigate Columbia student group for allegedly endorsing violence
Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) recently sent an open letter, demanding that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) open an investigation into an anti-Israel student group at Columbia University.
Specifically, the letter, which was published on Oct. 14, calls for an FBI investigation into the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) student group.
“After CUAD celebrated the anniversary of the horrific Oct. 7 attacks as a ‘moral, military and political victory,’ praised a Hamas-claimed terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, and once again called for and endorsed violence, Ernst and Stefanik urged the FBI’s New York field office and Columbia University leadership not to repeat last year’s failures, when Jewish students were told to hide at home,” a joint press release states.
The letter itself quotes a CUAD member as having stated, “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” “I feel very comfortable—very comfortable—calling for those people to die,” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”
The letter notes that CUAD initially apologized for the statements, but thereafter “apologized for the apology” and redoubled its advocacy for “liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance.”
“Notably, earlier in the week, the same group endorsed the Hamas-claimed terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, embracing the same language used in its publicly posted threat, calling it ‘a significant act of resistance,’” the letter continued.
Ernst and Stefanik continued to urge the FBI to open an investigation into CUAD to prevent widespread acts of significant violence.
“In light of the considerable violence occurring for which this group is already responsible, and Columbia University’s inability and unwillingness to police its own campus necessitating it to request the NYPD intervene, federal intervention is now necessary,” the congresswomen wrote.
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That makes no sense. What is there to investigate? Endorsing violence is protected by the first amendment. There’s nothing “alleged” about it, they do it openly, as is their right; the FBI has no right to do anything that would chill their speech.
Now if there’s evidence that the group is actually engaging in violence, or is planning to do so, the FBI can investigate that; but the headline doesn’t say that. It says the call was to investigate it for its speech, and that’s illegal.
The article also says things are serious because Congress has been moved to act. An investigation is nothing but one of the usual mechanisms employed by a Congress that has no intention of actually acting.
What the agitators at Columbia did last year, or what’s happening at UCLA now is only advocating violence? They violently threatened Jews; is that not sufficient? Separately, I have no faith in the FBI. Like many other aspects of our bloated federal government, it is past its sell-by date.
What has that got to do with this specific group, or this specific call for investigation?
Again, that is not what the headline says they called for. It says they called for the FBI to investigate this specific group “for allegedly endorsing violence“. The quotes given to support that reporting do seem to back it up. And that is wrong and illegal.
It’s as if the professoriate is looking at the members of the alleged “press” and saying, “You think you’re stupid, hold my beer!.” If FDR and Woodrow Wilson are in hell, its because they convinced people that academics are competent in the real world. They are not. And, with a few individual exceptions like Moynihan, never were. I’ve worked and lived with academics for most of my life and most are incapable of walking down the sidewalk without tripping.