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Columbia University, where student protesters in 1968 stormed and occupied many university buildings, forcing the resignation of the university’s president, is again at the center of the news for campus radicalism.
As FrontPage Mag has reported, Columbia grad student and green card-holding alien Mahmoud Khalil, spokesman for the pro-Hamas student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), has become what The New York Times called “the public face of protest against Israel” at Columbia. In addition to participating in a takeover of the library at Columbia affiliate Barnard College, he has referred to the October 7 attacks as a “moral, military, and political victory” and asserted that CUAD is fighting for nothing less than the “total eradication of Western civilization.”
To the shock and outrage of Jew haters on the Left, the Trump administration stepped in where the complicit Biden administration never would have, and arrested this terrorism-fomenting alien with possible deportation to follow.
“This is an individual who organized group protests that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda, flyers with the logo of Hamas,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at last week’s briefing. “This administration is not going to tolerate individuals having the privilege of studying in our country and then siding with pro-terrorist organizations that have killed Americans.”
And that’s not all. Trump also threatened to cancel $400 million in federal research contracts and grants to Columbia unless the school tightened disciplinary procedures and asserted greater control over academic departments to stem antisemitism at the school, particularly in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Last week Columbia caved – pledging, for example, that masked demonstrators must show identification when asked, that protests will generally not be allowed in academic buildings, and that several dozen public security officers will be empowered to make arrests.
On Sunday, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said on CNN’s State of the Union that the school was on the “right track”: “Columbia is demonstrating appropriate cooperation with the Trump administration’s requirements, and we look forward to a lasting resolution,” she wrote in a statement the following day.
“Columbia’s early steps are a positive sign, but they must continue to show that they are serious in their resolve to end antisemitism and protect all students and faculty on their campus through permanent and structural reform,” said Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service.
But many radical professors objected. As classes at Columbia resumed Monday after spring break, about 50 professors chanting “Defend our research,” “Defend our teaching,” and “Defend our students” protested Columbia’s concessions outside the campus gates. According to The New York Times, the professors declared they hoped to be the vanguard of a resistance movement among fellow academics.
“We need to stand up, all of us,” Michael Thaddeus, a Columbia math professor, told the crowd. “We need to organize, from the grass roots to the national level. If we lead, our leaders will follow.” Stand up for what, exactly? Antisemitism? Hamas? Palestinian celebrations of the torture, gang rape, kidnapping, and slaughter of Israelis? Exactly what objection do these academics have to ending the violent intimidation of Jews on their campus?
“What is happening to Columbia now is what the erosion of democracy looks like,” fear-mongered Political Science professor Virginia Page Fortna. “We’ve studied what’s happened to universities in authoritarianism,” warned Anya Schiffrin, a senior lecturer at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. “We’ve seen what happened in Spain under Franco, in Turkey, in India and in Hungary. It’s a mistake to think it won’t happen here.”
On the contrary, what won’t happen here on American campuses – thanks to the Trump administration – is proliferation of the murderous Jew hatred we have seen surging at universities in major Western cities worldwide in the wake of the October 7 attacks. Crushing this vile antisemitism is not equivalent to restricting academic freedom, which is the disingenuous complaint of Left-wing professors who pretend to value the First Amendment while advocating for the eradication of Israel and Jews.
Columbia University has been a hotbed of Left-wing academic activism for many decades. In Freedom Center founder David Horowitz’s 2006 book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, fully nine of those 101 professors taught at Columbia – more than twice as many as at any other university named in the book. Those professors were Lisa Anderson (Middle East Studies), Gil Anidjar (Comparative Literature), Nicholas De Genova (Anthropology), Manning Marable (Black History), Joseph Massad (Modern Arab Politics), Hamid Dabashi (Islamic Studies), Eric Foner (History), the late Todd Gitlin (Journalism), and Victor Navasky (former publisher of The Nation) – check out their linked profiles at Discover the Networks, the Freedom Center’s online encyclopedia of the Left.
Of those nine, De Genova is now at Princeton, and Marable, Gitlin, and Navasky have since passed away. The others continue to spread their subversive influence at Columbia – some more openly than others. Joseph Massad, you may recall, publicly celebrated the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in Israel, calling it “astounding,” “awesome,” and “incredible.” He teaches a Columbia course on Zionism, which is like having Mussolini teach a course on democracy.
Now Columbia’s surrender to Trump has lit a fire under other such activist professors at the school. Monday on WBUR’s Here and Now, Reinhold Martin, President of Columbia’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, asserted with the Left’s customary hyperbole that “We’re in New York in 2025 with echoes of Frankfurt and Berlin in 1933. That’s the context in which we need to understand this.”
No, the context Americans need to understand is that many of our most prestigious so-called institutions of higher learning are actively supporting terror organizations such as the Jew-hating jihadists of Hamas, meaning that Jewish and openly Zionist students are being discriminated against, if not literally terrorized on campus.
As Jihad Watch’s own Hugh Fitzgerald wrote,
I wonder what Joseph Massad, Rashid Khalidi, and Hamid Dabashi are now thinking. Their scandalous reign is over. The time when they could bully Jewish students in the classroom, or assign a skewed reading list brimming with ani-Israel bias, or lecture in their classroom about the sheer wonderfulness of Hamas and the monstrousness of the Jewish state, and hire only faculty who, like them, were relentlessly anti-Israel, are now over. Fun while it lasted for these professorial bullies, but for them, the days of wine and roses are definitely over. Now the grownups are being put in charge of Middle East Studies at Columbia.
Indeed. As Bob Dylan once sang in a different context, the times they are a-changin’.
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As with DEI, universities will look for a way to camouflage their bad behavior., but loss of major funding will clear their minds…a little.
The Univerties of today have become nothing but leftists Indoctrination Zones and Terrorists Training Centers its better to just defund them and use the Money to house Homeless Vets and Build a Border Wall
Such has been the case since the sixties. The only difference now is that they’ve amped up their overt extremism. And they’re not afraid to show it through “direct action,” which they’ve discovered results in hardly any consequences.
hollow words until there are planeloads of campus terrorists being booted out of the u.s. meanwhile tinpot judges will resist and obfuscate . no point in having a president while they call the shots . the system is so corrupt by the time the dons tenure is up the u.s. will continue to be whiteanted by homegrown terrorists of the muslim, and anarchist crowd that the democrats are and the colleges and universities will continue their dismantling of america . when you reject JESUS CHRIST and his sovereignty over the affairs of men and adopt islam as the state religion this is what you get .prepare for worse and then some .
Who is changing or supervising changing curriculum? The same anti Semitic Middle Eastern Muslims -maybe hired with Qatari money – to teach there? Or American die hard leftists? How could they not teach hate when it is all they know and believe? I believe this is beyond fixing. The muslim professors who espouse Israel-hate and the leftists who do the same must go home and the school closed.
Note that their arguments, as you quote them, are so slim that they have to call upon history for inverted analogies. Its like dangerous children playing at an heroic role ….heroic in that they want to kill Jews – Jewish students and Jewish people again and again and again.
cat – The Jews and indeed all of America have a scheming enemy
in Qatar in the furtherance of barbaric and backward Islam. No
doubt that Qatari funding – as well as that of other rich Muslim
nations – will allow both leftist and Muslim professors to remain at
their posts to spew Jew hatred.
American universities across the country – not just Columbia – have
been hogtied by anti-Semitism and anti-American beliefs to inculcate
into our young. Not to mention the Commie propaganda saturating
Americans in the daily mainstream media – as well as the constant
unlawful rulings of the judiciary on behalf of the left.
Yet against these tyrannical behemoths – and others – Trump still
won. Hang onto that thought and take heart. Remember too that
the tiny Jewish state of Israel came up more than once against
impossible odds and is still there.
Unfortunately, many of these hate spewing leftists are Jewish. Nothing new, it’s always been that way
They are Jews bacause their mothers are Jews.
They are not “Jewish” as they are not Zionist, and “Jewish” is an adjective referring to a Jew who is Zionist.
Threats do not work.
Deeds done, followed by explanations why, sometimes do.
Deeds done, without explanations, always work.
I’m a practicing Roman Catholic with Jewish ancestry who has quite a few Jewish family members and friends—full disclosure.
One aspiration that many of these Jewish people have for their children, and their children have as well, is to get admitted to and attend an Ivy League school.
I’ve tried to convince them that such as aspiration isn’t really something to aspire to, and that it’s not worth selling one’s soul for.
The reasons why are too numerous to list here, but it bears mentioning that you are wildly overpaying for what you’re getting in terms of actual academic instruction, which is what you’re going to school to get, that the overall culture of these schools is not conducive to your mental and emotional well being, and that you’re just as likely, or more likely, to succeed elsewhere.
I wonder if what’s going on will convince Jewish families to reconsider the Ivy League. One would hope so.
Antisemitism equals Freedom of speech, a 1st amendment RIGHT!
HELLO AMERICANS
Hello enemy of America. Committing violence against persons and property is not protected by the First Amendment. That is what has been happening.
People may have a right to say totally vile things about Jewish people. They may even have a right to say or record such sentiments where Jewish people can hear them. What they do not have a right to do, is to harass or threaten people, to shut down discourse opposed to their own, to claim academic objectivity for skewed material, to disrupt teaching, to obstruct people’s access to facilities, or to promote terrorism (oops, I forgot, Hamas aren’t just common or garden rapists, they are freedom rapists, doing the onerous duty of raping “the occupation” with gritted teeth).
Were you raised by a father who put on white sheets and a white pointy head and face covering to go out and burn crosses in black people’s yards?
Do you have a family history of lynching innocent black people?
The Jewish presence at most of these elite universities is already way down due to a myriad of factors: affirmative selection practices, healthy competition from Asian candidates, a university preference for foreign students paying full tuition, and choice. At Harvard, it’s said to be down from over 20% at its high to now about 6%.
It’s also possible that many Jews are now in the Closet afraid to be outed and now hiding like Gays used to do… so I wrote this:
“MILLIONS take Pride in those who are Coming Out of the Closet while those same millions…. ARE MAKING OTHERS RUN INTO ONE!”
Those including MAGAS, Jews, Conservatives, Pro-Lifers, Christians.
When you think about it, it is the public masturbators who SHOULD do their thing in closets.
It happens to be lefties who are shooting their wads all over the place this year. and last. and the years before that …
AAHHHH…. PROF. JOSEPH MASSAD… now up to 79,000 signatures on a petition to have him fired. I guess they know why. MAYBE BECAUSE HE’S THE RINGLEADER… THE MASTERMIND behind all the protests since he learned from his Mentor… Gerry Bradley… while a student at UNM in Albuquerque.
Bradley, former head of the NM Communist Party, the NM Marxist Educators for Socialist Action, and the NM Peace Council, a front of the U.S. Peace Council/CPUSA and the WORLD PEACE COUNCIL RUN AND FUNDED BY THE SOVIET KGB! Massad’s classmate and Bradley’s recruit, AHMAD ASSED, now the President of the Islamic Center NM and who organized a protest to OPENLY SUPPORT HAMAS over a decade ago during an Israeli/Hamas war. He’s quiet now but his sister, Samia Assed, is not. She’s been organizing Pro-Hamas protests at UNM for years.
ARE ANY OF THESE PROFESSORS SENDING AID, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, TO FOREIGN TERRORIST GROUPS? THE STUDENTS ARE PAWNS… GET THE MASTERMIND… JOSEPH MASSAD! COLUMBIA NOT TAKING ACTION AGAINST THEM IS BECAUSE THEY ARE PART OF IT! (CAPS IS ME SCREAMING!) WHERE’S THE FBI…. “WE DON’T WANT TO GET THEM MAD!”
WHEN, NOT IF, JIHAD COMES HERE… WHO WILL MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TAKE UP ARMS WITH??? TOO LATE NOW FBI. OUR COUNTRY WILL BE SET ON FIRE AND IF “WE THE PEOPLE” TOOK ACTION, “WE” WOULD BE THE ONES ARRESTED FOR HATE CRIMES DUE TO ISLAMOPHOBIA!
I think it worth remembering that it was Columbia university that gave a home to the Frankfurt School when they fled Nazi Germany from which to infiltrate and subvert universities across our nation. The Frankfurt School was a Marxist think tank that endlessly belabored the central question of “How shall we bring down western civilization?” Do not imagine that they ever went away. They are as active as ever in higher education and energetically spreading cultural Marxist rot to this day, and Columbia university has not changed it’s colors either.
And many (a majority?) of those Frankfurters were Jewish.
That move to Columbia was in 1934. The worm has grown.
This was the decade when the communists from Europe made their first effective in-roads to our State Dept, followed by infiltration of our educational system, churches and many govt bureaucracies in the 1950’s.
Free speech is not allowing wannabe hitlers in the classroom spewing hate and death epithets to Hebrews (Jews) and Israel – lemme tell y’all – the ways Hebrew people have been genocided and exiled and migrated to other nations, set up and excelled – if We actually wanted to control the world (not like the self-loathing Jew Soros) we would and could.
We started Hollywood and we funded hospitals, museums, education and technology.
The seeds of our success is not demonic but straight from YHVH, GOD of the Bible. Frankly, if we accepted Yeshua as our Messiah we would have faired better and kept Yeshua Messiah to ourselves and the rest of the world would not have Lord Jesus Christ available to you as now.
benign and blatant ignorance is not going to be continually tolerated by YHVH, which is why President Trump is there. If you cannot see YHVH’S HAND in the mix, you are deadheading to the antichrist.
These atheist, antisemitic “professors and lecturers” have for their intuition and god lucifer satan.
And if you cannot see this either, you are deadheading to the antichrist.
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So, when the Columbia profs displayed signs saying “Defe3nd of students” was there an asterisk next to it. Sort of like, ” * except for the Jews”.
I’m convinced that every Ivy League school is a piece of sh!t. There should be some kind of unwritten law that states if you went to an Ivy League school, you can NEVER run for any political office on any level.
Antisemitism= Freedom of speech
A 1st Amendment ‘right’ from our Christian forefathers
Try Freedom of Speech promoting anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-Illegal and cheering their deaths exactly like Joseph Massad said about Oct.7 and the slaughter of Jews. ALL CAMPUSES would expell students and fire teachers. Where’s the ACLU now?
working for jihadis/leftists
To have “freedom of speech” you must also have a sense of responsible speech. Just because you have the freedom to say something degrading, or to burn a flag, doesn’t mean that you should do those things. It only means that if you do, you won’t be locked up in a gulag somewhere. It is truly the same with all of the Bill of Rights Amendments.
We wouldn’t need a First Amendment if freedom of speech protected only popular speech, speech to which no one objects, “responsible speech.”. It protects that speech to which everyman would/should object.
Unfortunate, but true.
The ACLU is a frontline Communist back organization found by Roger Baldwin I’n the 1920’s or 30’s for the specific purpose of protecting Communists and advancing the Communist Party agenda, and manifesto for the purpose of overthrowing Americas Capitalistic system! Read your 1900’s history and WAKE UP AMERICA!
Destruction of property, invading buildings and classrooms, bullhorns in targeted ears, beating up staff, assault of students, unlawful imprisonment by preventing movement, theft of educational services, etc. are not free speech. “You should drop dead” is free speech.
American University (.I.e.) Columbia is NOT a educational ( hot bed and haven) for Anti America subversive, radicals (students and Professors) who goal and purpose is to create lawless anarchy! The ALL need to go! Trump need to arrest them, deport them, trial them for anti American subversiveness and deport ALL of them! Then, FULLY defund Columbia University until they comply to American’s Constitutional Code of Conduct of Americas Republic first!
Qatar, a terrorist state abroad and at home!
Why is DJT still dealing with these terrorists. Can’t be personal business/interests.
Qatar is in the diplomatic mix and the US has a base there. The president has his plate full with domestic opposition.
When I found out that Egyptian born Manouche Shafik was president of Columbia U. it all started making sense. This “person” is a Muslim.
I would bet that the school is riddled with Muslims, many not students, who are there simply to agitate and harass Jews. After all, Mahmoud Khalil is no longer a student there, but somehow finds the time be at the school all the time. Deport his sorry a$$.
Columbia U. has always been a problem. It is pretty much a communist front, engaged in insurrection against the U.S. Many of the Communists associated with the Frankfurt School were given teaching positions after escaping Nazi Germany. They should have been deported after it was clear they were agitating against the U.S., particularly Herbert Marcuse and Theodore Adorno.
This is the school that harbored Cloward and Piven, the frauds who came up with the scam “The Weight of the Poor” designed to bankrupt the U.S. It is currently the go to plan for the current Democrat party’s platform
And who else went there? None other than our gay communist “president”, Barack Obama.
Manouche Shafik should be fired. It’s endowment should be seized. Fire the staff and the communist sympathizers masquerading as legit teachers. The school definitely needs a Muslim and Communist enema cleansing.
Or perhaps, raze the school to the ground. It’s simply churning out enemies of the state.
What befuddles me about all this is that Jews have remained mostly silent and never seem to push back the Jew haters. What are they afraid of? Are there no take no sh*t tough guys alpha males among Jews? I don’t get it.
Years ago, there use to be a guy named Irv Rubin who was head of the JDL. Irv was a badass who barked back at Jew haters and didn’t think twice about getting into a fight with them and kicking their asses.
Irv Rubin, who ran the JDL from 1985 to2002, was a great man who was set up by antisemites, arrested, convicted and murdered in prison. Wikipedia and the rest of the search results always lie about him.
I had the honor of meeting his son when I was working on a political campaign. I asked him if he was going to carry on the legacy. He didn’t give me a straight answer, but I understood why.
Our Nation is $37 TRILLION in DEBT! We shouldn’t be funding ANY college that has a MULTI-BILLION $ Endowment – especially a college with an ANTI-America history!!
I do hope that SANE companies check applicants for political indoctrination as well as drug abuse!! Anyone hiring one of those brainwashed idiots is an idiot!!
Defund the Hate Defund Columbia is the best place to Start
My favorite part of your article :
No, the context Americans need to understand is that many of our most prestigious so-called institutions of higher learning are actively supporting terror organizations such as the Jew-hating jihadists of Hamas, meaning that Jewish and openly Zionist students are being discriminated against, if not literally terrorized on campus.
— which bears repeating.