How Trump saved Columbia | His crackdown restored reason at my campus

In October 2024, pro-Palestinian activists marched on Columbia University’s campus, on New York’s Upper West Side, chanting “Resistance is glorious! We will be victorious!” They held up signs that read “LONG LIVE THE AL-AQSA FLOOD,” commemorating Hamas’s murderous assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7. One of my professors, struggling to make herself heard over the cacophony, told us that students had been emailing her, telling her that they did not feel safe and would be absent. Another professor told us that we’d be welcome to leave for “personal reasons.”

Such turmoil had become a routine part of campus life. It was as if the faculty and student body were expected to accept constant disruption, including the occupation of major buildings (Hamilton Hall and Butler Library); the hostage-taking of janitors (whom the protesters allegedly threatened as “Jew lovers” that they wished to “fuck up”); and the distribution of pamphlets that could’ve come straight from the Hamas Media Office.

But then, something changed. This Oct. 7, for the first time in two years, a newfound tranquility prevailed. The group of pro-Palestinian agitators was small and mainly huddled outside the main gates on Broadway and 116th Street. There were no large disruptions or violent clashes with the authorities. My friends and I were shocked by how peaceful the day went: the protests took less time and featured far more measured rhetoric.

The Columbia Intifada, it seems, has died down — thanks to President Trump. His campus measures are unquestionably illiberal. But they’ve paradoxically helped to preserve reasonable discourse on campus.

The scale of the cultural transformation is astonishing. As I looked through X, expecting to encounter the grievances of pro-Israel activists, I saw none. Lishi Baker, arguably Columbia’s most prominent Zionist activist, had only reposted images of...

1 posted on 10/21/2025 12:23:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Columbia took the Oil Money decades ago.
They are nothing of their former selves.

Owl and all, Alma Mater is a just a grubbing whoore.

2 posted on 10/21/2025 12:43:37 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)

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