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Now the pro-Hamas brownshirts are presenting themselves as the true victims of the demonstrations at Columbia last year, and have decided to sue Columbia for “persecution.” More on this preposterous example of moral topsy-turveydom can be found here: “Anti-Israel activists seek to sue Columbia University, allege student persecution,” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, April 6, 2025:
Anti-Israel activists are seeking legal action against Columbia University over alleged persecution and to force the institution to cut its associations with Israel, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) announced on Friday.
The activists are fundraising for a legal fund to seek injunctive relief to stop Columbia and the affiliated Barnard College from taking disciplinary and law enforcement action against students. The suit would demand amnesty and monetary compensation for those disciplined since the post-October 7 massacre protests.
“Monetary compensation”? Moolah, pound notes, wampum, dindi, fric. That’s what it’s all about now for Mahmoud Khalil. When people say “it’s not the money, it’s the principle,” it’s the money. No doubt Mahmoud Khalil, the brave fighter for free speech, who wants to go down in history as a Muslim John Peter Zenger, is hoping to make a killing from the “persecution” he has endured. He hasn’t endured any persecution. He’s the one who’s been doing the persecuting. Remember his harassment of Jewish students, his encouraging, or in some cases leading, fellow Muslims in surrounding Jewish students and preventing them from moving. Don’t forget how his followers came into classrooms to interrupt lectures by Israeli professors and to shout them down. Keep in mind how Khalil’s stormtroopers seized and vandalized campus buildings. Remember Khalil’s leading the chants calling for the obliteration of the state of Israel (“From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free”) and the expulsion, or killing, of its Jewish population, and for unleashing violence against Jews everywhere (“Globalize the Intifada”). And above all, keep in mind his praise of Hamas, which the American government has designated as a “terrorist organization.” This martyr for free speech, Mahmoud Khalil, would if he could shut down all pro-Israel speech in a New York minute.
“Countless Palestinian students and pro-Palestine students have experienced discrimination, violence, harassment, and doxxing on the basis of their identity or perceived identity,” read the funding page. “Since the genocide began, Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and other students of color have been disproportionately targeted by the University and its affiliates.”
Of course this charge is absurd. There has been no discrimination, no violence, no harassing of Palestinians, Arabs, or Muslims. There has been plenty of discrimination, violence, and harassing of Jews by Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims. And there is an obvious explanation, having nothing to do with the “racism” that the people who created this funding site claim is at work. A great many of the pro-Hamas and antisemitic demonstrators on campus are “Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and other students of color.” Hence they form a greater percentage of those who have been removed by the campus police from their encampments, or pulled out of buildings, as they were from Hamilton Hall, which they invaded and vandalized, resulting in thousands of dollars in damages.
The funding page, which had raised $840 by Sunday, explained that pro-Palestinian students had been expelled and suspended through a “draconian” disciplinary system without sufficient evidence. On March 13, the Columbia University Judicial Board announced that it had suspended, expelled, and temporarily revoked the degrees of students involved in last spring’s protests. CUAD said at the time that 22 students were sanctioned. Three Barnard students were expelled for the disruption of a January 21 Israeli history class.
A “draconian” disciplinary system? What can they be thinking of? Columbia bent over backwards to accommodate the student protesters. That behavior is what caused the administration to withhold $400 million in federal grants. Only those students and non-students who were found to have committed acts of violence on the campus, including the harassment of Jewish students, the attempt to shut down classes taught by Israeli professors, the vandalizing of campus property, have been charged. Those who only screamed or chanted their hatred of Israel and Jews, and praised the terrorists of Hamas, nauseating as they were, were not touched. Hundreds of students were involved in the campus protests at Columbia and its sister school Barnard. Of that number, only three Barnard students were expelled. Others at Columbia had their degrees “temporarily revoked.” How harmful could that be, to have the receipt of your degree delayed by a few months?
CUAD alleged on X/Twitter that the students were subjected to police brutality and excessive force when removed from last April’s encampment and the May Hamilton Hall occupation. Reuters reported that around 100 students were arrested in May, and almost 100 in April, according to JTA [Jewish Telegraph Agency].
This charge of “police brutality and excessive force” wasn’t made until a year after the supposed event. How come? Or was this just a case of these pro-Hamas “activists” deciding to mention everything, throwing spaghetti at the wall in case something would stick? Funny, isn’t it, that no one at the time accused the police of “brutality and excessive force,” and that none of the videos taken of those much-publicized events show anything amiss in how the police behaved.
The activists also saw the legal action as a means of pressuring the Columbia administration into adopting its demands, including disclosure of investments connected to Israel and the boycott of Israel-tied companies and academic institutions.
So here we are again, with Muslim and leftist students still calling, so far in vain, for the boycotting of Israeli goods, divestment from Israeli companies, and sanctions on Israeli institutions and individuals.
“Why are we suing? To attack Columbia from all fronts,” CUAD said in an X post graphic.
Why are you doing this? To get money. To bully the university administration. To frighten Jewish students into ceasing to complain. To protect the jobs of Rashid Khalidi, Hamid Dabashi, Joseph Massad, and other faculty enthusiasts for Hamas now teaching at Columbia.
These pro-Hamas supporters are useful idiots. They’ve interjected their own Marxist spin on the conflict, a narrative based on fantasy. It’s Muslims who are trying to regain territory that once was under the control of Islam but now is a Jewish state – that’s Hamas’ raison d’être in a nutshell.
Ah yes Islam, where Muslims march around the Kaaba and venerate the Black Stone, which is most likely just an ordinary meteorite. Yep, Muhammad just co-opted some Arab pagan roots and dumped others but he kept the Hajj. It’s where Arabs came to Mecca to visit a tent (the Kaaba) that held tribal idols. Muhammad kept the Hajj and the Kaaba but threw out all idols, only keeping the Black Stone. During the Hajj, Arabs would throw small stones at pillars to represent stoning the Devil, Muhammad kept that pagan ritual in too. Muhammad tweaked ritual animal sacrifice to pagan deities and substituted ritual animal sacrifice based on his bastardization of the bible. Muhammad stated that Abraham was tested by Allah to sacrifice Ishmael but it was God testing Abraham to sacrifice Isaac.
There is no Marxist struggle in the Middle East, there is no oppressed vs oppressor conflict either and Jews aren’t neo-colonialists. Islam is a cult, born out of Arabs following a person who clearly was insane. Muhammad had no pipeline to divine inspired knowledge; he was a lunatic that had auditory and visual hallucinations. He claimed the Sun set in a dark puddle of water and prostrated itself to Allah every morning in order to rise. He also claimed a child would resemble the father, if the man discharged before the woman and vice versa for the child resembling the mother.
All this information and more is freely available, yet the useful idiot supporters of Hamas don’t even bother researching the subjects of Muhammad and Islam. Maybe if they dedicated as much energy into that as they have to hating Jews and Israel, they’d come to the conclusion – I was supporting this religious crap?
Knowledge is power and when you actually understand Muhammad, the history of Islam and realize its cult no different than Scientology is a cult – then the only conclusion you can come to is there’s no justification to supporting it!
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Terrorists should be forever banned from suing anyone and any Trial Lawyer who sues on their behalf should lose their Liscens
It’s all theatre. Who’s funding it?
Probably George Soros and his Globalists ilk
Palestinians and their supporters define Oppression as their inability to kill, assault and intimidate Jews as they please. They just can’t stand the fact that even after October 7 Israel still exists and they haven’t yet been able to kill all the Jews in Israel and in the world.
Oh, please. Anti-Israel demonstrators are pro-Hamas. Hamas is a terror organization. It is a federal crime to give any form of support to terrorists. The FBI should be tasked with showing up in the courtroom and arresting all these fools. Case closed.
After Israel was declared a state, Arab countries expelled thousands of Jews who had lived with them peacefully sometimes for centuries. There was no widespread movement to call it racism or genocide. Arab countries then banded together with the goal to destroy Israel and with no other motive. Failing that, they created terrorist cults to harass and injure Jews and unlucky bystanders as an occupation. Until October 7, Israel did not launch rockets into civilian zones. Even now, civilians are warned in advance, and no one else ever does that in wartime. Israel has never sent suicide bombers into Arab cities. Israel does not rape women or mutilate children. Israel allows non-Jews full privileges of citizenship. Not exactly apartheid, I think. Hamas deliberately ignited a retaliation after it massacred Israelis and took hostages. Hamas and its masters must have known it would happen. The radical Islamic movement is ready to sacrifice Palestinians and use death as propoganda to advance jihad. They are after all bred as terrorists and cannon fodder from childhood. No wealthy Arab nation wants to welcome these people as citizens. It seems like the paradoxical branding of Israel as racist genocidals is being done here in the west by expat jihadists aided by white antisemites. Israel is blamed as an occupier of land it does not occupy and of land which it owns, Jihadists openly claim to wish for the genocidal eradication of Israel and of Jews in general. There are no natural resources in Israel. Left to fallow, it will revert to swamps and desert. The only reason Arabs want the land is to kill Jews. Israel does not seek to occupy Arab/Muslim/Persian countries or to annihilate their non-Jewish inhabitants. They want to be safe from attack and left in peace. A wake up call is needed by the rest of the non-Islamic world. If Israel falls, you are next in line.