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Hundreds call for intifada, hail Houthis at Columbia University anti-Israel protest

2024-01-21

And to think that my grandmother was General Eisenhower’s housekeeper-in-residence when he was president of Columbia after the war. How times have changed.

[IsraelTimes] Marchers chant support for deadly uprising, Iran-backed group hitting Red Sea shipping; antisemitic sticker states: ‘Zionist donors and trustees, hands off our universities’

I guess they’re not going to be reinstated for complying with university policies anytime soon...

Hundreds rallied throughout Columbia University’s campus in New York on Friday, chanting anti-Israel slogans.

How many different ways can vicious idiots say, “Let’s kill all the Joooooos now!”

The protest was said to have been organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, which is supposed to have been suspended from campus for the rest of the academic year unless it complies with conditions set by Columbia.

Marchers chanted “there is only one solution, intifada revolution,” referring to deadly Palestinian uprisings that included terrorists carrying out deadly suicide attacks against Israelis.

Another chant repeated was, “Yemen, Yemen make us proud, turn another ship around” — a message in support of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, which the US deems to be a terror organization and has been attacking Red Sea shipping in recent weeks.

Protesters also chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” which critics say is a call for the removal of the state of Israel.

A sticker photographed on a university trashcan featured an antisemitic message: “Zionist donors and trustees, hands off our universities.”

No problem. We’ll keep our money and ourselves. You can have what’s left afterward.

It was unclear if all of the participants in the rally were students at Columbia University.

At least one rally was held inside a building, apparently without action taken by campus authorities or security.

Good men doing nothing...

Columbia University suspended its chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace in November, and said they could be reinstated in the spring semester if they show “a commitment to compliance with university policies.”

A university official said that the groups have not yet agreed to adhere to university rules that would allow their reinstatement. The official said administration staff had met with representatives from the groups to discuss steps toward ending the suspension.

The suspensions mean the groups cannot receive university funding or hold authorized events on campus.

They’re paid by various Progressive rich men, so they don’t need the university’s pittance. And clearly it doesn’t matter if they have permission, given they’re holding unauthorized events on campus anyway.

Columbia was a focal point for controversy in the weeks after October 7, amid dueling protests for and against Israel and the reported assault of an Israeli student.

But the campus has received less attention since the presidents of three other elite universities — Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — gave testimony to Congress last month that drew the ire of Jewish and other critics. Those university presidents told lawmakers that calling for the genocide of Jews did not necessarily violate university policy, provoking a firestorm of controversy that preceded Penn’s and Harvard’s presidents stepping down.

Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, was invited to appear before Congress at the same hearing, but declined, citing a scheduling conflict. Shafik attended a United Nations climate change conference in Dubai that day.

A waste of time, but probably safer, careerwise, than what happened to the other three.

SJP, whose national umbrella celebrated Hamas’s October 7 massacre of 1,200 people in Israel, most of them civilians, and the kidnapping of 240 more to the Gaza Strip amid shocking acts of brutality and sexual assault, has been suspended at several schools, including Florida’s public universities, George Washington University and Brandeis University.

Posted by:trailing wife

#7 Sipping chardonnay, wearing Che outerwear by North Face

Posted by: Frank G 2024-01-21 14:53

#6 Ladies where are you?

Marching with "queers for palestine."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-01-21 13:57

#5 we should not allow anyone adhering to sharia law to be in this country. any law pronouncing females are less worthy than males is wrong. Ladies where are you?

Posted by: irish rage boy 2024-01-21 13:46

#4 Easy enough to extract, ticket and ban those PNG without university ID.

Oh, University Mall Cops.

Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-21 13:32

#3 Hundreds call for intifada, millions vote for 'the other guy', and stay home.

Posted by: Bobby 2024-01-21 13:17

#2 I guess the president of Columbia learned nothing from the fates of Liz Magill and Claudine Gay.

Posted by: Tom 2024-01-21 13:05

#1 Nemat "Minouche" Shafik is a British-American economist, policymaker, and higher education leader She served as the President and Vice Chancellor of the [Marxist dominated] London School of Economics from September 2017 to June 2023. Shafik began her career at the World Bank and later served as permanent secretary of the UK’s [left wing] Department for International Development, as deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and as deputy governor of the Bank of England. She will become the 20th President of Columbia University in the City of New York on July 1, 2023.

Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-01-21 12:22

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