Whatever happened to the left's notion that the nation's college campuses are no place for hate? Because there sure seems to be a lot of loathing on the nation's campuses now, and some of the most virulent hate has been antisemitic hate. Columbia University even lost a president over this issue when she resigned in disgrace after having been forced to admit that the university did little or nothing to protect its Jewish students.
Now, pro-Hamas students at that university have launched a hate sheet in the form of a newspaper called the "Columbia Intifada." I swear, these kids have not one brain cell among them.
Columbia University’s Students for Justice for Palestine group launched an anti-Israel newspaper called “Columbia Intifada.” The school has since denounced the paper for “discrimination and promoting violence or terror.”
The newspaper, which keeps its authors anonymous, refers to Jews as “colonizers” and “subjugators,” and includes articles titled “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood,” “The Myth of the Two-State Solution,” “Palestinian Prisoners,” and a “Guide to Wheatpasting” which instructs students on how to vandalize public property with anti-Israel propaganda.
Anti-Israel student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest posted on Instagram that they distributed the first 1,000 copies of the paper at the Butler Library, with the caption “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
In a statement shared with the Washington Examiner, Columbia University said, “Using the Columbia name for a publication that glorifies violence and makes individuals in our community feel targeted in any way is a breach of our values.”
That statement from Columbia seems awfully weak sauce when the proper response would be immediate expulsion of any students (and the dismissal of any faculty) who are involved in this. But our university administrators do not often do that which they should, and Columbia is not the only offender in this matter.
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So these young skulls full of mush do not even know the nature of the killers who they are sympathizing with? Do they not know the meaning of "from the river to the sea?" While we understand that most of them couldn't name the river or the sea in question or find them on a map, it's a safe bet that they think the Jews now living in that area, between that river and that sea, will just magically disappear should they get their druthers. That's not what Hamas and Hezbollah have in mind, of course; they are thinking more of an October 7th attack writ large. They don't want the Jews gone; they want the Jews dead and are more than willing to do the job themselves.
That's who these useful idiots are supporting.
Columbia should not tolerate this behavior. While the students do, like all of us, enjoy their freedom of speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment, that amendment does not guarantee them freedom from the consequences of their speech. Expulsion seems like an appropriate consequence, as is the immediate deportation of any of these idiots who are here on a student visa.
Acting President Trump is already issuing warnings:
President-elect Trump has promised to remove funding and accreditation from schools found to be fostering antisemitism, and vowed to immediately deport protesters who come from other countries and “try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or antisemitism to our campuses.”
Like so many things the incoming Trump administration is intent on doing, that seems like a good start.
Update 12/7 6:18 ET: The headline for this article was edited post-publication for clarity.
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