It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that Columbia University, like pretty much every school in the country, shut down in-person classes because of COVID. 
In fact, when Columbia&#8217;s current class of seniors began attending the school as freshmen four years ago, they had to log in to virtual classes — for their entire freshmen year. Supposedly, this was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Extreme times require extreme measures, those students were told. Never mind that those measures were pointless and did far more harm than good, of course.
Now, just a couple of years later, extreme times are back, and once again, lockdown measures are apparently required. Columbia has just shut down in-person classes yet again, in favor of mandatory &#8220;virtual learning,&#8221; for the last week of the semester. And those same Columbia seniors who had to attend online classes as freshmen are now being told to do it again as seniors.
But this time around, the reason that on-campus classes are suspended is that Columbia has been overrun by a mob of anti-Israel protesters who have occupied the lawn on campus and, in some cases, were captured on camera harassing and even explicitly <a href="https://x.com/emilykschrader/status/1782090351945085254">threatening</a> Jewish students with violence.
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The people occupying the lawn — most of them students — say they won&#8217;t leave until Columbia divests from &#8220;anything related to Israel.&#8221; And for some reason, Columbia didn&#8217;t immediately have these students arrested and expelled, which would have been very easy to do, and should have been done. It wasn’t, so the debacle continues. Other schools like NYU, the University of Mexico — and even &#8220;Cal Poly Humboldt&#8221; have seen similar protests.
At this rate, it seems unlikely that Columbia University&#8217;s campus will even exist in a few years. The university will probably become an online program like the University of Phoenix. The quad will transform into CHAZ 2.0, run by some theater student posing as a warlord, that&#8217;s where this is headed. The people running Columbia, like the rest of the Ivy League, very clearly don&#8217;t have any strong interest in teaching students. They&#8217;ve made it extremely clear that they&#8217;re easy to walk all over, so of course, this will keep happening.
At the same time — regardless of whether these administrators are cowards or simply incompetent or both — it&#8217;s clear that these protests serve a purpose that&#8217;s much bigger than Columbia University.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1354-here-s-the-proof-that-the-free-palestine-movement-is-just-blm-repackaged-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
The disruption, it just so happens, is dominating the national news cycle right on schedule: in the spring before a presidential election. Usually we see a race riot right around this time — and as I&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-media-nominates-their-new-george-floyd">discussed</a> before, there&#8217;s been no shortage of attempts by the media this year to incite them. But those attempts have all failed. And now, instead of race riots, right on cue, we have this insurgent movement to &#8220;Free Palestine.&#8221; Which is really just a race riot, repackaged, and draped in a green, black, and white flag.
These students, for the most part, don’t necessarily see this as a BLM reboot, but that’s what it is, and that’s what political forces much more powerful than the students are determined to turn it into. Those forces see an opportunity that really has very little to do with Israel or Gaza. And if they succeed, there will be a lot of violence and disruption this year that extends far beyond Columbia and Morningside Heights.
If you look around, it&#8217;s not hard to find hints that this is what&#8217;s going on. For example, take a look at what happened last night to pro-Hamas protesters who gathered outside the home of Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader. These are protesters who, for the most part, have had a free run of the campus of one of the top universities in the United States for several days. But watch what happens the moment they get near Schumer&#8217;s house:
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What&#8217;s amazing about this footage is that, as you might remember, Left-wing activists recently gathered outside the home of Supreme Court justices — including Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — for weeks on end. That was part of an overt effort to intimidate the justices ahead of the Dobbs decision. But at no point were the demonstrators arrested for picketing in front of the justices&#8217; homes, even though it was a violation of federal law. The Biden administration refused to do anything about it. It was like a scene out of a third-world country.
The only guy they arrested literally called 911 and told them he wanted to murder Kavanaugh. That&#8217;s what it took to get some kind of police response.
But with Schumer, the rules are different. Hamas sympathizers and anti-Israel protesters can do what they want at NYU and Columbia and the University of Mexico and Cal Poly. The one thing they can&#8217;t do is disturb Chuck Schumer. So there are still rules, even amid all the anarchy. They just benefit the members of one political party.
As it happens, that&#8217;s not the only indication that what we&#8217;re seeing here is a kind of political operation. The Washington Examiner recently <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2974413/major-columbia-protest-organizers-left-wing-donors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a deep-dive into the groups that have played a major role in promoting these Columbia protests. One of these groups is called &#8220;Jewish Voice for Peace&#8221; or JVP, which is a pro-Palestinian organization. They&#8217;ve helped with pro-Palestinian protests that have occurred not only at Columbia, but also at Harvard, UNC Chapel Hill, Ohio State, and Boston University. And, as the Examiner reports, JVP is &#8220;supported by far-left George Soros&#8217;s Open Society Network, and since 2016 has hauled in at least $650,000 from Soros-connected groups.&#8221;
Well, that&#8217;s interesting, especially if you were told that the protests at Columbia were entirely spontaneous — and entirely student-run, student-funded and student-organized. Now we&#8217;re learning that Soros-linked money is somehow involved in what&#8217;s happening at Columbia. As you probably remember, Soros-affiliated entities famously <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/george-soros-racial-justice-organizations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poured</a> millions of dollars into so-called &#8220;racial justice initiatives&#8221; beginning four years ago, the last time we had national riots. These entities also helped elect quite a few D.A.s all over the country who promised to further BLM&#8217;s agenda by refusing to prosecute criminals. Now, according to the Examiner, Soros&#8217; Open Society Network is indirectly bankrolling some of what&#8217;s happening at Columbia, or at least the organizations involved in it.
And it gets worse. Democrats like Cori Bush and Ilhan Omar have blamed the physical violence and threatening rhetoric at these protests on so-called outside agitators. These are sitting members of Congress in the Democratic Party making that claim. They&#8217;re asserting that these agitators have nothing to do with the actual protest. But as the journalist Park MacDougald has <a href="https://x.com/hpmcd1/status/1782924163121856608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> out, one of the other key organizers of the Columbia protest — Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP — is a subsidiary of the same nonprofit as one of these alleged &#8220;outside agitators,&#8221; a group called Within our Lifetimes, or WOL. The nonprofit is called the WESPAC Foundation.  In other words, there&#8217;s no daylight here between the &#8220;outside agitators&#8221; and the protesters. They are one and the same. And who funds the WESPAC Foundation, you ask? As MacDougald points out, WESPAC <a href="https://x.com/Scrollletter/status/1782838777838227669" target="_blank" rel="noopener">takes</a> a lot of money from the Tides Foundation, which in turn, has also received significant funding from the one and only George Soros.
As always, all roads lead back to Soros.
So this is starting to look like more than an isolated protest. It&#8217;s looking more like a broader and more general astroturfed effort to destabilize the country and stoke racial resentment, with the full endorsement of the Democratic Party.
There are some pretty clear signs that some of these students understand that, too.
Take the group called &#8220;Columbia University Apartheid Divest,&#8221; or CUAD. That&#8217;s a large coalition of more than 116 groups — including JVP — that are organizing the occupation at Columba Right now. Some of those groups include the &#8220;Columbia University Black Pre-Professional Society,&#8221; and &#8220;White Coats 4 Black Lives.&#8221;
You might be wondering why exactly a group of med students and other &#8220;pre-professionals&#8221; who support BLM also happen to be in lockstep in opposition to Israel and in support of Hamas. How exactly are these interests so perfectly aligned?
If you ask these students, they&#8217;ll probably tell you what Ilhan Omar&#8217;s daughter would tell you. She&#8217;s a student at Columbia who was just arrested for participating in this illegal encampment, and she&#8217;s also an avowed BLM activist. They would all say that they&#8217;re just really interested in defending allegedly marginalized people, wherever they may be — here or in Gaza. And that probably is what many of these students believe. They see anyone who&#8217;s non-white as a marginalized person. They see this as conflict between “whiteness” and marginalized people of color. For them, this is a struggle against white power structures and systemic racism and colonialism. Whiteness is the real villain here. Ask them and they will tell you this.
In reality does the war in Israel having anything to do with whiteness or systemic racism or anything like that? Of course not. But that’s how they see it. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t care. At least they certainly wouldn’t care as much as they do. There was no occupation of university campuses over the Ukraine invasion. That’s because, though leftist’s like to pretend they care about Ukraine, when it comes down to it both parties are equally white. There’s only so much sympathy they can really have for white people, even the ones in Ukraine.
But things start to get a little confusing when you look at other groups that have signed onto this collective at Columbia. They <a href="https://cuapartheiddivest.org/our-coalition">include</a> the &#8220;Columbia Queer Alliance,&#8221; the &#8220;Queer Graduate Collective,&#8221; and my personal favorite, the &#8220;Student Organization of Latines&#8221; — or “SOL.&#8221; Those are groups that, if they stepped foot in Gaza, would immediately be stoned to death. Hamas doesn&#8217;t exactly take kindly to the sorts of people who call themselves queer. So it&#8217;s a little harder to explain their membership in this coalition. But it becomes less difficult if you see these protests as many Democratic Party leaders see them — which is yet another opportunity for the Democratic Party and their various activist groups to terrorize millions of people and derail the national conversation in an election year.
It&#8217;s not exactly surprising that colleges, once again, are ground-zero for this effort. Universities have been fomenting this kind of radicalism for decades, and now they&#8217;re reaping exactly what they&#8217;ve been sowing. None of these universities deserve our sympathy. And for that matter, none of them deserve the benefit of student loan forgiveness programs, either. If anyone should pay for these students&#8217; loans, it&#8217;s the endowments of these schools, which are now so dysfunctional that it borders on comical.
Here for example are protesters late last night at Columbia, talking about dispersing into platoons so they&#8217;ll be harder to arrest:
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They&#8217;re comrades in arms, ready to fight for whatever the cause of the day is. As Aaron Sibarium points out, these protesters want to make it as difficult as possible for the police to remove them — so that when they are removed, they can claim to be victims. That is their overriding motivation here.
What they may not know, although it&#8217;s pretty obvious at this point, is that they&#8217;re not simply idiots. In an election year, they&#8217;re useful idiots. And in the next few months, the party that controls the government right now is going to take full advantage of them.

Pro-Palestinian Protests Continue At Columbia University In New York City

Here’s The Proof That The ‘Free Palestine’ Movement Is Just BLM Repackaged

Here's The Proof That The 'Free Palestine' Movement Is Just BLM Repackaged

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Israel

Matt Walsh

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A pro-Palestinian passenger berated Democratic New York City Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eric-adams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Adams</a>, slamming him over his support for Israel, as he flew home from Miami after speaking at the 2024 Concordia Americas Summit.
Adams was in Florida to speak about the migrant crisis and the impact on local communities when border states transported illegal immigrants to self-described &#8220;sanctuary cities&#8221; like New York City — but the topic quickly turned to Israel when he boarded a plane to head for home.
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&#8220;F*** you! You support the genocide in Palestine! There are homeless people all over New York, yet you’re always partying!&#8221; the woman shouted, accusing Adams of paying New York City police officers instead of funding initiatives that would help the homeless.
&#8220;Why are you even in Miami? You know there are people being arrested there? People are homeless in New York. People cannot afford food. You keep cutting the education budget so that you can fund the police. That’s all you care about, funding the police. Everything is underfunded because of you.&#8221;
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Adams recently issued a public statement on the anti-Semitic protests at Columbia University — which have gotten so heated that the University president switched the campus to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/demand-a-refund-critics-slam-columbia-univ-as-anti-israel-protests-force-hybrid-classes-until-years-end" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remote and hybrid classes</a> for the remainder of the semester &#8212; warning students that police &#8220;will not hesitate to arrest&#8221; protesters if they deem it necessary.
&#8220;I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus — like the example of a young woman holding a sign with an arrow pointing to Jewish students stating &#8216;Al-Qasam’s Next Targets,&#8217; or another where a woman is literally yelling &#8216;We are Hamas,&#8217; or another where groups of students are chanting &#8216;We don’t want no Zionists here&#8217; — and I condemn this hate speech in the strongest of terms,&#8221; Adams said.

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NYC Mayor Harassed On Plane Over Support For Israel

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New York City

Protests

U.S.

Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/benjamin-netanyahu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> slammed the presidents of some of America&#8217;s most prestigious universities this week after they took little-to-no action to quell the anti-Semitic protests on their campuses.
Netanyahu made the remarks in a video on Wednesday in response to anti-Semitic demonstrations at Columbia University, New York University, Yale University, and others.
&#8220;What&#8217;s happening on America&#8217;s college campuses is horrific,&#8221; Netanyahu said in the two-minute video. &#8220;Anti-Semitic mobs have taken over leading universities. They call for the annihilation of Israel. They attack Jewish students. They attack Jewish faculty. This is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. It&#8217;s unconscionable; it has to be stopped. It has to be condemned and condemned unequivocally. But that&#8217;s not what happened. The response of several university presidents was shameful.&#8221;
He thanked federal, state, and local officials for taking more action than the universities have, but said that more still needed to be done.
&#8220;When you listen to them &#8230; they say not only ‘death to Israel, death to the Jews,’ but ‘death to America,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;And this tells us that there is an anti-Semitic surge here that has terrible consequences.&#8221;
He said that it was in America&#8217;s interests to fight back against anti-Semitism because failure to do so throughout history has led to larger problems erupting that can harm countries.
&#8220;We have to stop anti-Semitism because anti-Semitism is the canary in the coal mine,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It always precedes larger conflagrations that engulf the entire world. So I ask all of you, Jews and non-Jews alike, who are concerned with our common future and our common values to do one thing: stand up, speak up, be counted, stop anti-Semitism.&#8221;
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Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s.
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— Benjamin Netanyahu &#8211; בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) <a href="https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1783191454308864300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Netanyahu Rips Heads Of Elite U.S. Schools: ‘Reminiscent Of What Happened’ In Germany ‘In 1930s’

Benjamin Netanyahu

Education

World

Yale University

NEW YORK — Columbia University has again extended its deadline for anti-Israel student protesters to disband their encampment, giving the students until Friday to reach an agreement with the administration.
The extended deadline comes after protesters, who have set up tents and are occupying the Ivy League university’s quad, were originally told by university president Minouche Shafik that they would have to clear out of Columbia University’s quad by midnight on Tuesday. A surge of protesters and police arrived at the campus late at night on Tuesday, with New York Police Department officers appearing to be preparing to enter campus.
But that deadline was pushed back until 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, and has now been extended to Friday.
The student protesters received support from other demonstrators who gathered just in front of Columbia’s campus last night, shouting chants like “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “one solution: revolution,” while waving Palestinian flags. Others called for a global intifada and openly displayed Hamas symbols.
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WATCH: Surrounded by police in riot gear, hundreds of anti-Israel protesters on Columbia&#39;s campus are loudly chanting the genocidal slogan of their movement, and that the &quot;one solution&quot; is &quot;revolution&quot;
Daily Wire field reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/SpencerLndqst?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpencerLndqst</a> is on the scene in New York City: <a href="https://t.co/5RdnX2ZVDJ">pic.twitter.com/5RdnX2ZVDJ</a>
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Protests have spread to other campuses across the United States and within Manhattan, most notably at New York University. The anti-Israel protests reached a <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/about-230-people-arrested-at-nyu-columbia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boiling point</a> when 228 demonstrators were arrested at Columbia and NYU on Monday.
Columbia <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/columbia-university-moves-to-hybrid-classes-for-rest-of-semester/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> earlier this week that it would move to hybrid instruction for the remainder of the spring semester, which concludes on April 29th.
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The anti-Israel protests have sparked responses from national politicians, with President Joe Biden opting to condemn both sides — he criticized “anti-Semitic protests&#8221; as well as “those who don&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s going on with the Palestinians.&#8221;
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has called on Biden to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/23/stefanik-columbia-federal-funding-00153967" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revoke federal funding</a> from Columbia, citing the university’s failure to ensure the safety of Jewish students. She also demanded that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland penalize those who are calling for violence or terrorism, revoking student visas and deporting international students.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is set to appear on Columbia’s campus today to meet with Jewish and <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/23/columbia-university-mike-johnson-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hold a press conference</a> addressing &#8220;the troubling rise of virulent antisemitism on America&#8217;s college campuses.&#8221;

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators support “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” at Columbia University

Columbia Again Extends Deadline For Students To Disband Anti-Israel Encampment

New York

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a> is under fire yet again after a memo went out late on Monday informing all students and staff that remote or hybrid learning would be the standard until the semester ends.
The announcement came as anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests have created an environment — on Columbia&#8217;s campus and at other colleges such as Yale — where Jewish students <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-rabbi-warns-of-extreme-antisemitism-advises-jewish-students-to-return-home-asap">do not feel safe</a>. After protesters chanted slogans calling for the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel — and one protester was seen holding a sign calling on Al Qasam (the militant wing of the terrorist group Hamas) to target fellow students who carried Israeli and American flags — classes initially were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-moves-to-remote-learning-as-campus-rancor-puts-jewish-students-on-edge">switched to remote</a> for the day on Monday.
But by Monday afternoon, as tensions had not cooled, the Office of the Provost put out <a href="https://provost.columbia.edu/news/guidelines-teaching-student-accommodations-and-staff-campus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new guidance</a> for the remainder of the term:
<blockquote>It’s vital that teaching and learning continue during this time. We recognize conditions vary across our campuses and thus are issuing the following guidelines:
Morningside main campus: All courses hybrid &#8211; classroom technology permitting &#8211; until the end of each school’s Spring 2024 semester with the following carveouts and further details below.
Arts/Practice-based programs: in-person with generous accommodations supported by school deans and staff.
Medical Center and Manhattanville: in-person operation as usual, but granting accommodations based on religious reasons, or approved disability accommodations.</blockquote>
&#8220;If the class does not permit adapting to the remote offering format, we encourage faculty to provide other accommodations liberally to students who have requested support for virtual learning this week,&#8221; the memo continued, also encouraging support staff to work from home if at all possible.
Critics slammed Columbia for moving to remote/hybrid learning, saying that the school had chosen to cave to the protesters rather than dealing with them.
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Imagine having to pay $70k a year for online classes because your school caved to these people.<a href="https://t.co/jvA5gxwjxc">pic.twitter.com/jvA5gxwjxc</a>
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&#8220;Let&#8217;s get this straight-Jewish prof at Columbia is denied access to campus so violent and vile Jew-hating anarchists are allowed to roam around spewing genocidal chants. If a parent has a child at Columbia, they should demand a refund and then sue for breach of contract,&#8221; former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR) posted.
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Let&#39;s get this straight-Jewish prof at Columbia is denied access to campus so violent and vile Jew-hating anarchists are allowed to roam around spewing genocidal chants. If a parent has a child at Columbia, they should demand a refund and then sue for breach of contract. <a href="https://t.co/TG2grkyptU">https://t.co/TG2grkyptU</a>
&mdash; Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1782439943060496774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Remote learning because Columbia is refusing to keep their campus safe for people of all ethnicities and religions. Is this a breach of contract? Has anyone requested a refund?&#8221; Marina Medvin asked.
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Remote learning because Columbia is refusing to keep their campus safe for people of all ethnicities and religions. Is this a breach of contract? Has anyone requested a refund? <a href="https://t.co/busiIx9Dmg">pic.twitter.com/busiIx9Dmg</a>
&mdash; Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1782358115746230433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;A degree from @Columbia today is not worth more than a roll of toilet paper. Parents: definitely demand a refund &amp; compensation!&#8221; New York City Council Minority Whip (R) Inna Vernikov added.
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A degree from <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> today is not worth more than a roll of toilet paper. Parents: definitely demand a refund &amp; compensation!
&mdash; Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (@InnaVernikov) <a href="https://twitter.com/InnaVernikov/status/1782279204874158211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘Demand A Refund’: Critics Slam Columbia Univ. As Anti-Israel Protests Force ‘Hybrid’ Classes Until Year’s End

'Demand A Refund': Critics Slam Columbia Univ. As Anti-Israel Protests Force 'Hybrid' Classes Until Year's End

Anti-Semitism

Jewish

More than half of the Republicans in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Senate</a> reached out to a pair of top officials in the Biden administration on Tuesday demanding &#8220;immediate action&#8221; to protect Jewish students on college campuses.
The group of 27 GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona as pro-Palestinian protests at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-dozens-of-anti-israel-protesters-at-yale" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale, and others</a> have led to reports of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-education-chair-demands-columbia-university-expulsions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harassment</a> and acts of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitism</a>.
&#8220;You need to take action to restore order and protect Jewish students on our college campuses,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-colleagues-biden-administration-must-act-to-protect-jewish-students-from-pro-hamas-anti-semitic-mobs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;President Biden issued a statement on Sunday, purporting to condemn the outbreak of anti-Semitism. If that statement was serious, it must be accompanied by immediate action from your departments.&#8221;
The GOP senators requested that Cardona and Garland provide their offices &#8220;an update&#8221; on relevant efforts to enforce federal laws by 5 p.m. on Wednesday. They provided a non-exclusive list of examples.
&#8220;Rioting violates federal law,&#8221; the lawmakers said. &#8220;Violence or attempted violence against anyone because of their Jewish heritage violates federal law. School administrators’ failure to protect Jewish students from discrimination or harassment violates federal law and is grounds for those schools losing access to federal funds. Espousing support for terrorists such as Hamas violates federal immigration law and is grounds for deportation.&#8221;
Federal law enforcement and the Education Department &#8220;must act immediately to restore order, prosecute the mobs who have perpetuated violence and threats against Jewish students, revoke the visas of all foreign nationals (such as exchange students) who have taken part in promoting terrorism, and hold accountable school administrators who have stood by instead of protecting their students,&#8221; the GOP senators added.
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Co-signers included Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Katie Britt (R-AL), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Cornyn (R-TX), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Josh Hawley (R-MO), John Hoeven (R-ND), Ron Johnson (R-WI), John Kennedy (R-LA), James Lankford (R-OK), Jerry Moran (R-KS), James Risch (R-ID), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Rick Scott (R-FL), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).
Hawley also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawley-presses-biden-to-mobilize-national-guard-to-protect-jewish-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> asking President Joe Biden to mobilize the National Guard in response to the protests that have led to safety concerns for Jewish students on university campuses across the country.

Sen. Tom Cotton

GOP Senators Demand Biden Admin Crack Down On Campus Anti-Semitism

Biden Administration

Congress

Politics

U.S. Senate

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.D. Vance</a> (R-OH) said on Monday that &#8220;two forces&#8221; underly the &#8220;campus violence&#8221; amid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-education-chair-demands-columbia-university-expulsions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports of harassment</a> against Jewish students as pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests sprout up at Columbia, Yale, and other universities.
The chaos on campuses is the result of a &#8220;convergence&#8221; of dual factors that &#8220;the Left has been openly cultivating for years now,&#8221; Vance <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/04/22/sen_jd_vance_limousine_self-hating_liberals_and_the_importation_of_millions_of_people_are_producing_campus_violence.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Fox News host Jesse Watters</a>.
&#8220;On one hand you have well-educated limousine self-hating liberals who get very good educations, but really getting very good indoctrinations. They are not getting an education in anything,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;And then on the flipside, you have the importation of millions of people, some of whom aren&#8217;t properly vetted and some of whom hate this country,&#8221; Vance continued, alluding to the migrant crisis.
&#8220;Those two forces are joining in Columbia and in Yale and producing this incredible campus violence,&#8221; Vance added.
At Columbia, protesters have insisted the university meet their demands, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/columbia-university-protests-classes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divestiture</a> from companies that have ties to Israel as the country fights a war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Vance pointed to some alleged incidents during the demonstrations that have given rise to concerns about the safety of Jewish students and even led to Columbia shifting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-moves-to-remote-learning-as-campus-rancor-puts-jewish-students-on-edge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remote learning</a> on Monday.
&#8220;Obviously we condemn anti-Semitism. But I don&#8217;t care what your underlying ideology is. If you are harassing fellow students, if you are preventing people from getting to class, if you are <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/jewish-yale-student-stabbed-in-the-eye-with-palestinian-flag-during-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stabbing your fellow students in the eye</a> with flags, you should go to prison,&#8221; he said.
Vance took aim at Democrats, including President Joe Biden, saying he does not understand why they &#8220;cannot just utter the simple basic truth that if you violate the law, if you set up a tent city, if you turn our cities or campuses into garbage dumps for your next political protest, you need to be forced to comply with the law.&#8221;
Although police arrested more than <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/nyregion/columbia-university-protests-antisemitism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100 students</a> at Columbia for refusing to leave an encampment on campus and participants have been subject to suspension, the protest activity persisted for several days.
Democrats have &#8220;boxed themselves into a hole&#8221; because of their need for moderate Jewish and Arab voters in places across the country, Vance said. &#8220;Those groups of people very often do not see eye to eye on this Israel question — on the Gaza question, and the Democrats have to lay in the bed that they&#8217;ve made for themselves.&#8221;
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Vance also made reference to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-crushed-equivocating-antisemitic-protests-fine-people-both-sides-moment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">equivocating comments</a> from Biden on Monday in which the president said that he condemns the &#8220;anti-Semitic protests&#8221; as well as people who &#8220;don&#8217;t understand&#8221; what Palestinians are going through.
&#8220;The fact that Joe Biden cannot straightforwardly condemn terrorism and attacks on the craziness that&#8217;s going on in our campuses is evidence that the guy has two masters and he needs to pick one and if he doesn&#8217;t the American people need to give them the boot,&#8221; Vance said.
&#8220;Can you imagine, Jesse, if Donald Trump was president right now, can you imagine how swiftly we would respond to this lawlessness and chaos? We just need to get back to common sense,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not asking for anything — of course people have the right to peacefully protest — I&#8217;m not asking for anything other than simple law in order and obeying the law. If you can ask that of college kids, what can you ask?&#8221;

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH)

J.D. Vance Pins ‘Campus Violence’ On ‘Two Forces’ Cultivated By The Left

J.D. Vance Pins 'Campus Violence' On 'Two Forces' Cultivated By The Left

JD Vance

Leftists

Before entering the courthouse for another day of his New York criminal trial, former President Donald Trump took some time to address the ongoing anti-Israel protests at universities across the country, blasting President Joe Biden for sending the &#8220;wrong&#8221; message during the conflict in the Middle East.
Not far from Trump&#8217;s hush money trial in lower Manhattan, students at Columbia University on the Upper West Side have engaged in anti-Israel demonstrations that have led to a rabbi for the university <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-rabbi-warns-of-extreme-antisemitism-advises-jewish-students-to-return-home-asap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warning</a> Jewish students of “extreme antisemitism and anarchy” on campus and suggesting they go home. Columbia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-moves-to-remote-learning-as-campus-rancor-puts-jewish-students-on-edge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> to remote learning on Monday out of safety concerns and said that classes at its main campus will be hybrid, technology permitting, until the end of the semester, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/business/columbia-tensions-passover-virtual-classes/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Anti-Israel protests have also broken out at New York University and Yale, where dozens of demonstrators were arrested, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/campus-protests-arrests.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The New York Times.
&#8220;What&#8217;s going on at the colleges — Columbia, NYU, and others — is a disgrace,&#8221; Trump told reporters outside the Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday morning. &#8220;It&#8217;s really on Biden. He&#8217;s got the wrong signal, he&#8217;s got the wrong tone, he&#8217;s got the wrong words. He doesn&#8217;t know who he&#8217;s backing. And It&#8217;s a mess.&#8221;
&#8220;What&#8217;s going on is a disgrace to our country. It&#8217;s all Biden&#8217;s fault and everybody knows it,&#8221; the presumptive Republican presidential nominee added. &#8220;He&#8217;s got no message. He&#8217;s got no compassion. He doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing. He can&#8217;t put two sentences together, frankly. He is the worst president in the history of our country.&#8221;
President Biden was <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/04/22/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-gaggle-triangle-va/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> on Monday if he condemns &#8220;the antisemitic protests on college campuses&#8221; and replied, &#8220;I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that.&#8221;
&#8220;I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians,&#8221; Biden added.
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During his remarks to reporters, Trump also repeated his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unloads-on-officials-coddling-anti-israel-activists-while-cracking-down-on-conservatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticism</a> of authorities for preventing any protests outside the courtroom during his trial while allowing anti-Israel protesters to take control of large sections of college campuses.
&#8220;It&#8217;s interesting [that] outside for great Americans — people that want to come down and they want to protest at the court and they want to protest peacefully — we have more police presence here than anyone&#8217;s ever seen. For blocks,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t get near this courthouse, and yet you have nobody up at a college where you have very radical people wanting to rip the colleges down.&#8221;
Columbia, a private university, <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/news/2024/04/18/columbia-authorizes-nypd-to-clear-protest-encampment-on-campus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on the NYPD last week to clear protest encampments on its campus, and NYPD officials said that more than 100 people received summonses for trespassing. The move, however, failed to stop anti-Israel demonstrators from continuing their on-campus sit-in into this week.

Donald Trump

Trump Says Anti-Israel Protests At Universities Are ‘All Biden’s Fault And Everybody Knows It’

Trump Says Anti-Israel Protests At Universities Are 'All Biden's Fault And Everybody Knows It'

Elections

Executive

Joe Biden

Protest

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/josh-hawley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Hawley</a> (R-MO) asked President Joe Biden on Tuesday to mobilize the National Guard in response to pro-Palestinian protests that have led to safety concerns for Jewish students at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a> and other colleges across the country.
The lawmaker sent a <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/Hawley-Letter-to-Biden-re-Columbia_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Biden with the message after a Columbia rabbi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-rabbi-warns-of-extreme-antisemitism-advises-jewish-students-to-return-home-asap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Jewish students to go home following displays of “extreme antisemitism” around the New York City campus and the university shifted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-moves-to-remote-learning-as-campus-rancor-puts-jewish-students-on-edge?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remote learning</a> on Monday.
&#8220;On college campuses across the United States, Jewish Americans are at risk,&#8221; Hawley said, adding that &#8220;most alarmingly, in-person classes at Columbia University have been cancelled&#8221; right as the Jewish holiday of Passover was set to begin.
Hawley referred to Biden&#8217;s Passover message that said, &#8220;In recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence against Jews. This blatant Antisemitism is reprehensible and dangerous – and it has absolutely no place on college campuses, or anywhere in our country.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, you must take action to match those words,&#8221; Hawley said, adding later, &#8220;You must immediately mobilize the National Guard and any other authorities necessary to ensure the safety of Jewish American students and citizens.&#8221;
Protesters have insisted Columbia meet their demands, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/columbia-university-protests-classes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divestiture</a> from companies that have ties to Israel as the country fights a war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The demonstrations have led to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/nyregion/arrested-columbia-students-suspended.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrests</a> and suspensions, but the protest activity has persisted.
Other Republicans in Congress have called for steps to lower tensions on campus as protests pop up at other universities, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-dozens-of-anti-israel-protesters-at-yale" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale and MIT</a>.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-education-chair-demands-columbia-university-expulsions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> on Columbia to expel any students and faculty members found to have been harassing Jewish students.
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republican</a> delegation from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a>, led by House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stefanik-leads-new-york-gop-delegation-in-demanding-resignation-of-columbia-universitys-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> the resignation of Columbia President Minouche Shafik over a lack of confidence in her leadership.
Some Democrats also took a stand for Jewish students at Columbia, including Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), who showed up on campus on Monday with other members of his caucus.
&#8220;To the Columbia President, DO NOT make the same choice as the Presidents of UPenn and Harvard. Protect your students,&#8221; Moskowitz <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1782455889116430428" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X, alluding to other university presidents who stepped down amid controversy.

Senator Josh Hawley

Hawley Presses Biden To Mobilize National Guard To Protect Jewish Students

antisemitism

Josh Hawley

National Guard

Actor Michael Rapaport tore into the &#8220;anti- Jewish&#8221; campus protesters in a video posted to X on Sunday, warning that the actions they were taking at schools like Columbia University might result in former President Donald Trump getting reelected.
Rapaport shared his thoughts in a <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelRapaport/status/1782109863499145632" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profane rant</a>, captioning the video with the following statement: &#8220;The anti-Jewish screaming on college campuses will be worth the screaming when Trump wins in November, and you&#8217;ll have nobody to scream at but yourself.&#8221;
&#8220;That includes everyone who&#8217;s silent about it right now,&#8221; Rapaport continued, arguing that those who remained silent in the face of protests calling for the genocide of the Jewish people and the destruction of Israel. &#8220;Each and every one of you anti-Jewish and &#8216;Israel ain&#8217;t got nothing to do with me&#8217; people.&#8221;
In the video, he expounded on those thoughts – beginning in sarcastic tones: &#8220;You know what&#8217;s going to be great?&#8221;
&#8220;When d*** stain Donald Trump gets elected — and I ain&#8217;t saying I&#8217;m voting for him — but when he does win, and he&#8217;s going to win, the screaming and yelling that you f***ing p**** a** bl**j*b miserable mother f***ers on college campuses are doing now, the screaming that you are doing at Jews about, &#8216;Free Palestine,&#8217; the screaming you are doing at Zionists is gonna be nothing compared to the screaming you are going to be doing come November when d*** stain Donald Trump wins presidency because of you. Because of you,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;And historically, Google me, you know how I feel about d*** stain Donald Trump, but it would be worth the screaming, the crying, and the yelling,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to see those f***ing protests come November when d*** stain Donald Trump wins because of you f***ing little bl** j*bs.&#8221;
The video ended with Rapaport throwing back his head and cackling: &#8220;Woooo! I can&#8217;t wait!&#8221;

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‘You’ll Have Nobody To Scream At’: Michael Rapaport Says Anti-Jewish Campus Protesters Will Get Trump Elected

'You'll Have Nobody To Scream At': Michael Rapaport Says Anti-Jewish Campus Protesters Will Get Trump Elected

Celebrities

Hollywood

President Joe Biden faced criticism on Monday for his weak response to the anti-Semitic protests over the weekend at Columbia University.
The far-left protesters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-semitic-left-strikes-at-columbia-university">yelled</a> “Stop killing children” and “Go back to Poland” as the Jewish students were simply trying to get from campus back to their dorm rooms. They chanted for Hamas to hit Tel Aviv. They tried to form a human chain to keep Jewish students out. One anti-Semitic student decided to stand right in front of several pro-Israel protesters suggesting they be killed with rockets.
Biden was asked about the incidents while briefly answering questions from reporters following a Virginia event marking Earth Day.
&#8220;Do you condemn the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses?&#8221; a reporter asked.
&#8220;I condemn the anti-Semitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that,&#8221; Biden claimed, without specifying what program he has set up to deal with anti-Semitism.
Biden, who <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/politics/biden-campaign-video-announcement.html">says</a> that he ran for president because of the anti-Semitic marches in Charlottesville in 2017, then pulled what many online said was his own version of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;very fine people on both sides&#8221; remark.
&#8220;I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians and their — how they’re being —&#8221; Biden continued.
The political Left has repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-claimed-he-ran-because-of-charlottesville-notorious-white-supremacist-from-it-endorses-biden">falsely claimed</a> that Trump called called the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who attended the rally “very fine people. In fact, Trump condemned the neo-Nazis and white supremacists, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-even-cnns-tapper-admits-trump-didnt-call-neo-ryan-saavedra">saying</a>: “And you had people, and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.”
A reporter then asked Biden if the president of Columbia University should resign.
&#8220;I didn’t know that,&#8221; Biden responded. &#8220;I’ll — I’ll have to find out more about it.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Reporter: &#8220;Do you condemn the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses?&#8221;
Biden: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I have set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don&#8217;t understand what&#8217;s going on with the Palestinians.&#8221;
Reporter: &#8220;Should the… <a href="https://t.co/bW5j9Nde0v">pic.twitter.com/bW5j9Nde0v</a>
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President Biden Commemorates Earth Day

Biden Slammed For Remarks About Anti-Semitic Protests At Columbia

There is a cadre of students at Columbia University who decided to occupy the center of the campus and harass Jewish students.
They yelled “Stop killing children” and “Go back to Poland” as the Jewish students were simply trying to get from campus back to their dorm rooms. They chanted for Hamas to hit Tel Aviv. They tried to form a human chain to keep Jewish students out. One anti-Semitic student decided to stand right in front of several pro-Israel protesters suggesting they be killed with rockets.
The Columbia University Orthodox rabbi <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/2974295/at-columbia-jews-must-not-hide-apologize/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued a message</a> to all the Jewish students strongly recommending they return home as soon as possible and remain home “until the reality in and around the campus is dramatically improved. It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus. No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school.”
These protests are designed to harass and intimidate students in violation of all codes of ethics and conduct at the private university.
Over at Yale, similar levels of anti-Semitic activity occurred. Additionally, Yale students were cheering as the American flag came down.
At Northwestern University, the dean of students attended an anti-Israel protest targeting Hillel, the nonpartisan Jewish Student Community Center. Protest organizers were demanding the university end its relationship with Hillel, which is just a Jewish community organization existing on campus.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1952-congress-passes-massive-aid-package-for-ukraine-israel-taiwan-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a> </h4>
The revolutionary class is generally not a bunch of impoverished people who simply are trying to work a job and feed their families. Typically, it&#8217;s upper crust elites who have nothing better to do with their time and no sense of purpose so they decide to join in.
Now, the White House has put out a statement on anti-Semitism at Columbia. Andrew Bates commented on the situation, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4610110-white-house-condemns-blatantly-antisemitic-protests-amid-ongoing-unrest-at-columbia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “While every American has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation, targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly AntiSemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous — they have absolutely no place on any college campus, or anywhere in the United States of America. And echoing the rhetoric of terrorist organizations, especially in the wake of the worst massacre committed against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, is despicable. We condemn these statements in the strongest terms.”
Perhaps Biden’s administration should stop trying to please Hamas spokespeople in the United States.
The most amusing tweet came courtesy of Marc Caputo, who&#8217;s a national political reporter for The Bulwark. He <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/1782083324208611611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “With its top journalism school and journalism review, Columbia holds an esteemed place in media. So how did @CJR, Columbia profs &amp; the reporters it produces miss the formation of so much anti-Israel or ant-Semitic bias fostered at &amp; around the school? How did NY media miss it?”
How did the New York media miss it? The answer: They didn&#8217;t miss it. They fostered it. For years, the New York Times has refused to cover attacks on Jews in New York City so long as those attacks were being committed by minority criminals. Intersectionality is a hell of a drug, and this entire world view has promoted anti-Semitism, particularly at elite institutions.
Open anti-Semitism has been on the rise for legitimately decades on campus. It was rife on campus when I was there 20 years ago. It&#8217;s particularly rife from the radical Muslim community, and it&#8217;s been fostered by a Left-wing college administration across campuses for two generations that believes in the intersectional hierarchy of victimhood, in which Muslims outrank Jews.
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Leftists have a cheap and easy way of signaling their anti-Westernism and anti-Americanism without actually having to say they&#8217;re anti-Western and anti-American. They just put it all on Israel. All the reasons they use to hate Israel are reasons that also apply to the United States. They understand there might be consequences if they talk about how America is an evil colonial power and how American soldiers are human rights violators. So instead, they say it about Israel because it’s a cheap and easy way to virtue signal.
This then transmutes into anti-Semitism because the conspiracy theory by the far-Left has always been that there is a cadre of powerful people who have all the systems to their benefit. Jews are a minority group that is disproportionately successful in American society, and since the leftists believe the system must be rigged by those who are successful, anti-Semitism rises.
What&#8217;s even worse is that on college campuses, this went from a generalized worldview to an article of faith.
A lot of people were puzzled why after October 7, the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, all of this anti-Semitism sprang up. Normally, you would expect to see the reverse after a giant atrocity by an open, evil terrorist group against Jews of all sorts, including predominantly Left-wing Jews living in the Gaza envelope. Why did you see this massive outpouring of support for Hamas? 
The answer is that it&#8217;s an article of faith for members of the Left, proverbial skin in the game, to show fealty to the intersectional ideal by suggesting that even the worst human beings on planet Earth, like Hamas, are actually just victims of some sort of intersectional hierarchy. The more you pay fealty to the worst people in the world, the more you have shown your fealty to the cause.
And that&#8217;s how you end up with people who are doing the vicious work at Columbia University.
The most highly-educated people on planet Earth often have the least amount of wisdom.
And there&#8217;s nothing new about that because smart people can talk themselves into — and out of — virtually anything.

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