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Posted on 05/08/2025 4:39:31 PM PDT by grundle
I tried entering the main Columbia library a day before finals only to be blocked by other students. One yells “don’t let this guy in, he’s a f**ing Zionist.”
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Sue that rotten den of evil in to oblivion. Shirley there are some good conservative lawyers who will lead a class action against Columbia U. Sue the, for every penny. Destroy them.
And they’re all wearing masks like good little terrorists.
The Joke is on this Hamas lover. They locked the doors and only let them out if they showed ID. Those who refused were arrested. Lots of jerks are about to get deported!
That's the start of the problem.
“May 7, 2025
Dear members of the Columbia community:
Earlier today, a group of protesters occupied one of the main reading rooms in Butler library, refusing to leave, and another group breached the front door causing substantial chaos—all of this as the bulk of our students are working hard to prepare for exams. These actions not only represented a violation of University policies, but they also posed a serious risk to our students and campus safety. We had no choice but to ask for the assistance of the NYPD, and I’m grateful for their help and professionalism, as well as that of our Public Safety team. Let me be clear, what happened today, what I witnessed, was utterly unacceptable.
I spent the late afternoon and evening at Butler Library, as events were unfolding, to understand the situation on the ground and to be able to make the best decisions possible. I arrived to see one of our Public Safety officers wheeled out on a gurney and another getting bandaged. As I left hours later, I walked through the reading room, one of the many jewels of Butler Library, and I saw it defaced and damaged in disturbing ways and with disturbing slogans. Violence and vandalism, hijacking a library—none of that has any place on our campus. These aren’t Columbia’s values.
Let me be clear: Columbia unequivocally rejects antisemitism and all other forms of harassment and discrimination. And we certainly reject a group of students—and we don’t yet know whether there were outsiders involved—closing down a library in the middle of the week before finals and forcing 900 students out of their study spaces, many leaving belongings behind. Our commitment to a safe, inclusive, and respectful campus community is unshakeable, and we will continue to act decisively to uphold these values.
Let me also make clear, our administration spent substantial time working to diffuse the situation in multiple ways, through Public Safety and Delegate visits to the students, scenes I witnessed firsthand. The students were told they simply needed to identify themselves and then leave, but most refused. I worked with professors who generously came to have the same conversations. I am enormously grateful for the many people we have in our community, our Public Safety officers, our faculty, our staff, and my team, who work so hard to make Columbia what we know it can be and should be for our community. I also made sure to be present when the police arrived; I wanted to see for myself how the operation would unfold, and I’m grateful that it was orderly, professional, and extremely limited, with a focus on the students who refused to leave the reading room.
I am particularly heartbroken, and incensed, that this disruption occurred when our students are intensely focused on critical academic work. At a moment when our community deserves calm and the opportunity to study, reflect, and complete the academic year successfully, these actions created unnecessary stress and danger. I have seen how much our community wants to take back our narrative, to do what they came to Columbia to do—learn, thrive, and grow—not take over a library. Moreover, I am deeply disturbed at the idea that, at a moment when our international community feels particularly vulnerable, a small group of students would choose to make our institution a target.
We, at Columbia, value freedom of speech, robust debate, and peaceful protest. Today’s disruption of Butler Library was not that. We must, and we will, come together as a community to consider what civil disobedience actually is and what it means. We need to recognize that when rules are violated, when a community is disrupted for the sake of a few, that is a considered choice—one with real consequences. There is a clear line between legitimate protest and actions that endanger others and disrupt the fundamental work of the University. Today that line was crossed, and I have confidence the disciplinary proceedings will reflect the severity of the actions.
I am working with the Provost and University Life to ensure any affected students receive the support and resources they need. We have opened a new study space at Uris that will be available overnight for students.
Let me also say this. I’ve received many messages from concerned parents. The group involved less than one percent of our 36,000-person student body. Their actions had a disproportionate impact.
This is the last kind of message I want to be delivering tonight. But Columbia’s strength lies in our resilience. We are strong, we are determined, and we will not let this moment define us. I have heard consistently from our community that we are ready to pull together, to fight for the value of Columbia. So, we will get back to business. Our real business. The business of teaching, learning, studying, and researching. We have an incredible Commencement to look forward to and finals to prepare for. We will move forward together to show the world the best of Columbia.
Sincerely,
Claire Shipman
Acting President, Columbia University in the City of New York”
The best thing to do is make a deal with Hamas, its a win/win for everyone..the deal is as follows, for every hostage they release, we send them 100 Pro Hamas protestors..its a win for Hamas since they are running out of fighters, and its a win for us because we get the hostages back..so see, everyone wins..and we dont have to deal with these vermin anymore
claire wants her fed funding
she doesnt feel it in her heart
she feels it in her pocketbook
“And they’re all wearing masks like good little terrorists.”
I watched one of the videos. At the VERY LEAST, the security guards need to rip off their masks, and they had plenty of chances to do so, at least in that video.
I saw some video, and man, they’ve have some remarkably ignorant students. I am not even talking about their political views - they express themselves like 2 year old kids throwing a tantrum, and speak street slang. $500,000 for an education and they are barely socialized or literate and have no interest in civil discourse.
How these people got into, let alone are graduating from, an Ivy League school completely shatters any illusions one should have about then creating “the best and the brightest future leaders”. God help us if that’s what’s coming.
Not as shown by the evidence of the past couple years. The terrorists' actions were very much in Columbia values. Have you outlawed masking yet? No? Then you support these terrorists.
Let me be clear: Columbia unequivocally rejects antisemitism and all other forms of harassment and discrimination.
I would say your opposition to antisemitism is much more equivocal. Right now the potential loss of federal money is much greater than the loss of Arab oil money. One change of federal administration or an increase in Arab money and you'll go back to the old Columbia motto of "Juden raus!"
“claire wants her fed funding”
From her carefully chosen words, I think she is trying to do what is right.
Sorry Claire, political violence is absolutely something you value, just not directed your way. Only silver lining is at this point there is no one attending Columbia who did not sign up knowing it coddles leftist terrorists.
Go back. Get it on tape. Head to a lawyer.
Do you think we should “pre shoot them” before sending them to join Hamas?
1000% THIS!!!!!!
Some Feel-Good news from Fox News. Privileged protestors are arrested for trespassing. The video is 4 minutes in length and the protestors try to exit around the 3 minute mark.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6372483287112
MY NOTES on the Video (no text at the link): Anti-Israel protestors took over the Columbia University library. The audio echo's in the large room so I can't really tell what the shrieking female voice is proclaiming.
There are drums to make sure they disrupt those trying to study. Students in the lower right of this image pack up their books because it's impossible to study with the shrieking, people standing on tables and drumming.
At first I thought the staff were moving a velvet rope to allow protestors into the hall, but the protestors were knocking it over while trying to pass under or over it and at some point one staff member moved the stanchions aside, but remained beside them to advise protestors against entering the library. The protestors scurry in, carefully covering their faces like they have something to hide; it makes them look weak and pathetic.
When the protestors proudly swagger to the exit, they are prevented from leaving, told they will be arrested for trespassing, and to prepare to show their I.D. The obnoxious chanting and use of announcement speaker held by protester continues in the background.The face coverings failed to keep them anonymous if they have to show ID and are arrested. I wonder how many will turn out to be illegals or those who aren't students at Columbia.
Someday, the World 🌏🌎🌍
will UNite against Israel
and the Jews
Satan’s World leaders will be
Satan’s False Messiah Antichrist
and Satan’s “Religious” False Prophet
This battle comes at the end of the
7 Years of ‘Peace and Security’
The World’s armies will be
utterly and quickly destroyed
by the Second Coming of
The Lord Jesus Christ Himself
Their blood will flow for
200 miles and the birds will
eat the flesh of their bodies
Revelation 16:13-16
New King James Version
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the Dragon, out of the mouth of the Beast, and out of the mouth of the False Prophet.
14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the Earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that Great Day of God Almighty.
15 “Behold, I am coming as a Thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”
16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2016%3A13-16&version=NKJV
The proper response is to spray paint the asshole in question followed by a well swung policeman’s sap upside assholes head!9
About eighty of the demonstrators, many of them foreigners, were arrested by NYC police. Inevitably the NY Soros DA will drop the charges and they will not be convicted of a crime that would affect their visas. However the DOJ couldindict them for violating the civil rights of otherstudents by their unlawful protests. with convictions their visas would be voided and they can be deported.
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