Radical activists on America’s elite college campuses have been put on warning by Donald Trump. Novi Zhukovsky of The New York Sun reports:
Anti-Israel student protesters at Columbia University, seemingly unfazed by President Trump’s pledge to crack down on pro-terror campus activism, kick off the first day of the spring semester Tuesday with a walk out in support of the “student intifada.”
The demonstration, organized by student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest, comes as the university is slated to issue disciplinary verdicts for student activists involved in last year’s “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” The school’s judicial board held hearings over winter break, a university official confirmed to the Columbia Spectator.
“Demand the university drop the suspensions, drop the charges,” CUAD wrote in its announcement of Tuesday’s protest. “There will be no school as usual as long as Columbia is participating in a genocide.” The group further declared that the administration’s “repression” has “only fueled” its members’ commitment to their cause and they praised “suspension for Gaza” as “the highest honor.” The recent ceasefire, they add, “is only the beginning.”
The pro-violence messaging was in full force during Tuesday’s walkout, with student activists handing out fliers with menacing slogans like “The enemy will not see tomorrow” and “Burn Zionism to the ground.” One flier included the image of a boot stomping on a Star of David along with the line “Crush Zionism.”
The students eventually made their way to Columbia’s main quad and began to chant their usual rallying cry “long live the intifada” while loudly banging on drums. In light of the recent hostage exchange and prisoner release deal, the group also previewed a new chant: “1, 2, 3, 4, open up the prisoner door!”
A smaller group of Keffiyeh-clad protesters took its demonstration to a university classroom, disrupting the first session of a Jewish studies class on the history of modern Israel. Videos of the incident shared online depict a masked individual barging into the classroom and proclaiming, “We’re giving you an inside scoop on Columbia University’s normalization of genocide.” The class’s professor, Avi Shilon, can be heard asking the protestors to “please get out.”
“Columbia is out of control,” a coalition of Jewish and Israeli students at Columbia declared. The group cited the protest as evidence that the school’s student activists are not, actually, pro-peace. “Note that there currently is a ceasefire,” the group wrote on X. “These protests are anything but peaceful. They are pro-violence, glorify terror, and spread antisemitism.”
The timing of the protest — just one day after Mr. Trump’s inauguration — left some scratching their heads. “Yesterday Trump signed an executive order threatening international students’ visas,” a Jewish student at Columbia, Eliana Goldin writes. “I don’t get it … are my classmates not afraid of the consequences? Of deportation?”
Mr. Trump has promised to crack down on pro-terror and antisemitic protests on college campuses through various financial and legal means. He made good on that promise during his first day in office, signing an executive order enabling the deportation of international students for expressing support for organizations that the country has identified as terrorist groups.
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BREAKING: Fully masked terror-supporting students broke into a Columbia University class of Jewish students and began handing fliers of Jewish stars burning with "Curse Zionism" written.
Columbia should lose its accreditation and federal funding immediately. Enough of this! pic.twitter.com/yNoLBgiuia
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 21, 2025
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