Anti-Israel Students Arrested at Barnard College Are Mostly Children of Privileged Backgrounds
“Of the nine individuals arrested after storming Millstein Library, four are Columbia students”
What a surprise. This is so often the case, even if you go back to the student radicals of the 1960s.
EXCLUSIVE @FreeBeacon: Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for Storming a Barnard Building 🧵 pic.twitter.com/k9SRp07iXe
— Jessica Costescu (@JessicaCostescu) March 7, 2025
From the Washington Free Beacon:
Meet the Columbia Radicals Arrested for Storming a Barnard Building
Nearly half the radical activists arrested Wednesday after storming a Barnard College library are Columbia University students, a Washington Free Beacon review found.
Of the nine individuals arrested after storming Millstein Library, four are Columbia students: Gabrielle Wimer, Hannah Puelle, Yunseo Chung, and Symmes Cannon. One, Tramy Dong, is a Barnard student. Another, Christopher Holmes, attends Union Theological Seminary, a Columbia affiliate, while the remaining three appear unassociated with either school. They were charged with disorderly conduct, trespassing, and obstructing governmental administration, according to an NYPD spokesman.
Barnard president Laura Ann Rosenbury, however, stressed that the police weren’t called in because the radicals stormed Milstein Library. Rather, she felt the building needed to be cleared to protect the broader student body because of a bomb threat in the building.
The radicals rushed in through a back exit that an accomplice held open, hoisted an effigy of Rosenbury, and passed out Hamas propaganda. They refused to leave, even after they were alerted of the bomb threat. Law enforcement eventually cleared the agitators from the library, but the protesters refused to clear the courtyard outside and clashed with police. Officers began making arrests.
Wimer is a medical student at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. According to screenshots of her LinkedIn that has since been deleted, she is “passionate about global health and human rights” and has “experience in research, program management, and community outreach in multicultural settings.” Wimer is the Class of 2025 president, the programming coordinator for Columbia’s Human Rights and Asylum Clinic, and an active member of Columbia’s chapters of White Coats for Black Lives and Students for a National Health Program, according to an online bio.
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KICK THEM OUT!!
Expel them, or let Trump pull any federal funding and let the colleges live off their endowments
Apparently, Trump cancelled $400 Million in federal funding to Columbia.
Pulling the money is a good way to reduce our debt. Why weren’t all protesters charged?
Radical chic(k).
“They refused to leave, even after they were alerted of the bomb threat”
Even Inspector Clouseau caught that clue.
👍👍👍👍
Those ain’t for “cool!” — they’re for “GTFOHMF!!”
So we have a bunch of privledged women who are not Jewish nor Muslim, not Arab, don’t know anything about history, aren’t connected to the Middle East in anyway, don’t speak the languages, haven’t lived there, certainly have no military experience but for some reason are obsessed with hating Jews as their cause of choice. Sure they could look around New York and find a million worthy causes that actually are real and help the community, but no they choose to focus on a distal conflict they have no understanding of and no connection to. That leaves me to conclude that their institutes of so called higher learning have indoctrinated these weak minded fools. Well done Barnard and Columbia for lighting those lamps of hate; not only are you helping to destroy Jewish life in America but you are destroying these simple minded student’s live as well.
You can bet that they are all tools and fools pumped up by Arabs.
Females supporting the raping, baby murdering savages of October 7. Unbelievable. There is no point in trying to educate them. There is no point in talking to them. And the spineless President of Barnard should be fired. But those people are nuts, so they will probably hunker down in the sewer they’ve made.
Let me suggest that some of the $400M held from Columbia go to fund an alternative plea deal for these students as well as the three others. This deal would have them spend a full continuous 6 months as a school teacher in either Gaza, Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Afghanistan and then 6 months as a school teacher in Israel. Their colleges can grant them certain credits for this activity. I would expect that they will find that the contrasts between the various Islamic societies and that of Israel will provide a corrective to current their world view. The results would be fascinating.
Gee, trust fund brats go radical. Like we haven’t seen this before.