Posted on 04/24/2024 8:01:11 AM PDT by george76
Aidan Parisi pledged to 'resist' and called for 'intifada' after Columbia ordered him to vacate his on-campus apartment..
For more than two weeks, Columbia University graduate student Aidan Parisi has defied the university’s suspension, refusing to vacate his dorm room on the school's Manhattan campus.
The school announced Parisi’s suspension on April 4 following his participation in a pro-Hamas event. And while Columbia leaders have pledged to enforce the suspension, they have yet to follow through. In the meantime, Parisi has contributed to the mayhem that has engulfed the campus over the past several days, serving as a leader of the unauthorized encampment zone that has plagued the school for days.
Parisi has tweeted daily from what he calls Columbia's "Gaza Solidarity Camp," located on the university's south lawn. Student activists set up the camp last week as Columbia president Minouche Shafik testified before Congress on the school's response to campus anti-Semitism.
One day later, Shafik authorized the New York City Police Department to arrest students who had ignored warnings to leave the area and who were protesting in violation of university policy. But Parisi avoided arrest and went on to organize a "second camp" where students have remained ever since.
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Parisi has emerged as a ringleader of student activists, leading chants such as, "Columbia, we see you, you imprison children too." He's used his social media account to solicit supplies for his "amazing comrades," including blankets, tarps, and coffee.
He is also a symbol of the university’s dilemma: While Shafik has taken some disciplinary measures, suspending several students and calling in the police, the university has as yet been unwilling to employ more serious tactics to enforce order.
When Columbia suspended him in early April, Parisi was technically required to leave campus and should have been barred from returning without prior approval. The school gave him 24 hours to vacate his on-campus apartment on April 4. Four days later, he posted a statement to his Instagram account detailing his refusal to leave.
"As I am writing this I am sitting in my campus apartment which Columbia University is attempting to illegally evict me from, leaving me housing, food, and healthcare insecure," he wrote. "We will resist institutional repression just as the Palestinians have resisted occupation. … We must remain steadfast in our commitment to university divestment and to a free Palestine."
"Que viva la intifada. … Inshallah, we will rise victorious."
Parisi has advertised his status as a protest leader under the X handle "itsaidanbitch" and was an easily identifiable figure on campus on Monday, sporting a gold chain, large sunglasses, a nose ring, long acrylic fingernails, and a floral basketball jersey worn underneath a keffiyeh.
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Several Columbia professors held a rally on Monday to express solidarity with Parisi and other suspended students. The Washington Free Beacon observed Parisi speaking warmly with faculty members afterward. Prior to the event, he was filmed leading protesters positioned outside of Columbia's campus gate in chants of "Free, Free Palestine."
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The Free Beacon also spotted Parisi ushering a group of reporters into the encampment zone—those who wish to enter the "Solidarity Camp" must be admitted through a single entry point. Students within the camp formed a "human chain" to remove "Zionists" who entered the area Sunday night, according to a video of the ordeal.
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At the time of his suspension, Columbia acknowledged Parisi's decision to stay on campus in violation of his disciplinary terms. A university spokeswoman told the Washington Free Beacon that the school was continuing to "work through the disciplinary process."
One week later, on April 17, the school threatened to take further disciplinary action against Parisi. "Violations of suspension can lead to further disciplinary measures—we will continue to apply our rules and work through the disciplinary process," a Columbia spokeswoman said.
Parisi gave an interview to the New York Times one day prior, telling the paper he was "fighting his eviction" from on-campus housing because it would require him to find "housing that would accept his emotional support rabbit."
Columbia did not respond to a request for comment on whether it would remove Parisi from campus and, if so, how it planned to do so.
Parisi was suspended over his role in the now-infamous "Palestinian Resistance 101" event, which featured a number of terror-tied speakers who explicitly called for violence against Jews.
Charlotte Kates, a member of the Israeli-designated terror group Samidoun, praised Hamas's Oct. 7 terror attack for showing "the potential of a future for Palestine liberated from Zionism," while her husband, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine activist Khaled Barakat, lauded airplane hijackings as "one of the most important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in."
While Kates and Barakat spoke at the event virtually, Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of anti-Semitic group Within Our Lifetime, addressed attendees in person, telling them to openly support Hamas while acknowledging the group is considered a terrorist organization.
"Don't acquiesce to the idea [of], well, ‘Oh, they're considered a terrorist organization, so we shouldn't talk about resistance,’" Kiswani said of Hamas. "We're kind of like the test subjects or the guinea pigs. We're going to put ourselves out on the line, and you know, if people are okay with it, then they'll jump on it later."
Columbia subsequently banned Kiswani from campus, but she made it through the university gates early Monday morning, where she gave a speech to student protesters.
Parisi's specific role in organizing the "Resistance 101" event is unclear. The event was initially scheduled to take place at Columbia's Barnard College, but student organizers said they were forced to "change rooms" after a student complained to the university. The event was moved to Columbia's "Q House," an "LGBTQ+ special interest community at Columbia University," according to an internal email obtained by the Free Beacon, which was addressed to "comrades."
In the wake of the event, Parisi gave an interview on his suspension to Left Voice, an independent media site that touts its "militant journalism" and "revolutionary politics." He said he refused to comply with Columbia's investigation into the event because he "personally hates the police" and "will never engage with law enforcement." The suspension of student activists at Columbia, he added, gave him "no other option but to be militant."
"I look at this kind of the same way I look at crime," he said. "People are like, OK, this person is stealing. Well, why is this person stealing? Because they have no other option."
Why is he not in jail? He should be arrested every time he sets foot on Columbia property. Is he illegal, here under visa. Deport him.
Aiden needs his muzzie terrorist ass deported. Take his muzzie BS somewhere else. This is America. We don’t kill Jews just for the fun of killing Jews.
He did not refuse to leave the university.
He got the go-ahead with his protests and unlawfulness, when the university and the NYC police decided to not act.
Failure to act is the same as permission to do as you wish.
Did we pay off his loan???
I still can’t wrap my mind around the cops having to get permission to come on campus.....God forbid someone should need emergency assistance.
Columbia University won't press charges because discovery will show everything he's doing, he was taught at Columbia.
Columbia University was quite willing to teach Marxist anti-white and anti-American hate for more than a century. They have no complaint about vitriol being directed in their direction from the same students they taught it to.
During a portion of an interview with NBC News that was aired on Tuesday’s “NBC Nightly News,” [the feckless] FBI Director Christopher Wray stated that the agency isn’t monitoring the protests on college campuses because they “don’t monitor protests” as a general rule [but the FBI sure did from 1960-1992], “but we do share intelligence about specific threats of violence with campuses, with state and local law enforcement,” and “when violence ensues, that’s when we get concerned, [laugh of the year] when you have threats of violence.”
“”leaving me housing, food, and healthcare insecure,””
He gets his food and healthcare paid for by Columbia? Such a deal!!
I, too wonder where he’s from. The university is no different from any other bureaucracy - “we’re studying the issue”....
A night stick across the shins a few times does wonders for attitude adjustment.
Interesting consideration, you’re likely right that he is a product of their school. They will have to reckon with that.
"Comrades." Now where have we heard that lingo before?
Who is this guy?? Where was he raised? Who are his parents? What do, or did they do?? What is his political background? What is his major? Who is this guy??
So, he is a revolutionary communist LGBTQ...XYZ activist pretending to be a devout Muslim...
Amazing how our law and order and justice system has collapsed to third world status.
Parisi?
Sounds Iranian.....................
“Columbia University is attempting to illegally evict me from, leaving me housing, food, and healthcare insecure”
I’m curious how this works from a legal perspective. Students pay for room/board upfront. Wouldn’t that be some sort of implied tenancy involved? NYC has ridiculous tenancy laws that make it almost impossible to evict tenants on short notice. Or are universities exempt from these laws? What will happen to his “emotional support rabbit” lol.
He has an emotional support rabbit?
With all the talk of Hamas and guinea pigs are they sure that isn’t really a lab animal for a chemistry project?
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they werent collapsed without
the guidance of pelosi mob boss daughter nan
in the ways of of the mafia
to turn washington into a district of cartels.
Ha ha! HAMAS has a tranny representing them! You can’t make this stuff up!!
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