Columbia Chaos Continues

Another deadline for campus protesters at Columbia University to disperse expired yesterday afternoon. When the university warned that the remaining students at the “Gaza Solidary Encampment” faced suspension, the student radicals took note and moved.

They forcibly occupied Hamilton Hall, which is a historic building.

It is named after Alexander Hamilton. It has Tiffany stained-glass windows of the Roman poet Virgil and the Greek playwright Sophocles. Hamilton Hall was also the site of a famous student takeover in 1968 by actual anti-war students.

Today’s occupiers of Hamilton Hall are not anti-war protesters. If Hamas was winning the war with Israel, none of these students would be demonstrating for an end to the fighting.

They would be cheering the deaths of Israeli Jews. Just as they would have cheered if Iran’s missiles had found their targets two weeks ago.

Notice that they are not demonstrating against the war in Ukraine. They are not demanding a ceasefire in Ukraine. They are not demanding divestment from Ukraine.

They are not anti-war protesters, and they are not peace activists.

The Hamas Youth occupying Hamilton Hall hung a large banner from the building with just one word: “INTIFADA.”

That word has a specific meaning. It is a reference to violent Palestinian uprisings against Israel. It is a call for violence against Jews, just like so many other threats that have been made on Columbia’s campus, as well as other U.S. college campuses.

There is a video of Hamas Youth at Columbia frantically yelling, “Where did the Jews go?” I’m pretty sure they weren’t interested in finding Jews so they could hug them. It’s also what the Hamas jihadists who invaded Israel on October 7th were yelling, “Where are the Jews? Get the Jews!”

In the spirit of Hamas, Columbia’s Islamist sympathizers also took hostages. They eventually thought better of it and released them.

But it’s striking just how much these campus radicals reflect Hamas in their Jew-hatred. Radical Islamists have been taking hostages for decades. Of course, they also use the civilians of Gaza as human shields, literally hiding behind them.

And as Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz warns, many of these “useful idiots” on our campuses today “are being groomed to be the terrorists of the future.”

No doubt Hamas and Iran are praising these “useful idiots” yet again.