Posted on 04/30/2024 11:20:15 AM PDT by Signalman
Anti-Israel protesters have taken over a building at Columbia University in New York City after reportedly holding hostages briefly.
The occupation of Hamilton Hall at about 1 a.m. Tuesday came hours after the college said it would suspend students who refused to leave a tent encampment, according to the New York Post.
The initial burst to seize the academic building came while some facilities workers were still inside, according to the Columbia Spectator, the university’s student newspaper.
The protesters allowed them out then re-sealed the building with barricades.
One worker yelled, “They held me hostage,” according to the Columbia Spectator.
The protesters, critical of Israel’s war against the murderous terrorist group Hamas, broke doors and smashed windows as they gained entry while fellow protesters formed a human barricade to ensure authorities would not interfere.
Once inside, they barricaded themselves in and blocked doors while covering security cameras.
Two students tried to block the takeover, with one saying, “You don’t have a right to tear down our University.”
Tuesday morning, police were in a holding position outside the campus and had not tried to enter the building.
Protesters said they want Columbia to divest from any investments in Israel and give amnesty to all protesters.
Early Tuesday, protesters chanted “no divestment, no commencement.”
The Columbia University Apartheid Divest group indicated Monday it wanted to expand its grip on the campus after defying a 2 p.m. deadline to close down the tent encampment there.
“Admitted students day is over—commencement is on its way,” CUAD wrote in a statement, according to the Columbia Spectator. “Let’s see how much of this campus we can reclaim by then!”
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Did the police interview him, this is a kidnapping situation, we used to prosecute kidnappers.
the universities ENABLED this, and should the entire staff
should be be tried for the HATE CRIMES they have enabled
over and over and over.
Just practicing for Trump’s reelection.
Then their fun REALLY begins.
> Then their fun REALLY begins.
Be a shame if they torched it.
Just bring in the Fast Movers and Napalm the entire school.
Isn’t Kidnapping a federal crime that gets FBI involvement?
And I thought it was a serious one, with heavy potential penalties.
Isn’t Kidnapping a federal crime that gets FBI involvement?
And I thought it was a serious one, with heavy potential penalties.
They didn’t also want reparations?
Yes, but under Garland Law and Order has been suspended and replaced with a sole focus of political retribution.
Sounds like their monster has escaped.
"After Hitler came to power, the Frankfurt intellectuals came to the United States. Ironically, Adorno, the hater of popular culture, settled in Los Angeles. Marcuse ended up in NYC, where the work of the Frankfurt School was continued on a formal basis at Columbia University. Joel mentioned that during the war Marcuse consulted on Soviet studies with the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA. After the war, Adorno and Horkheimer returned to Germany where they also collaborated with American imperialism, on an even more insidious basis than Marcuse. More about that presently."This is most amusing in several ways.. 1) It shows Columbia University to have been a seat of the Marxists in America for decades. 2) The text mentions oddly that the CIA was "in the mix" so long ago. 3) It shows that "Soviet Studies" was a a decades-long post war fascination, and yet the CIA did not adequately foretell the collapse of the USSR, nor did the American Leftists who had been so enthused by the same.Kovel on the Frankfurt School (hosted on the Columbia University website - columbia.edu)
Deeper into the Columbia-hosted document we read: " Comrades should understand that my commitment to ecosocialism is the result of hearing Joel speak on the subject at the Brecht Forum a couple of years ago. His likening of capitalist growth to metastasizing tumors had a powerful effect on me. Joel stated that greens have to become red, and the reds have to become green."
Note that the e-address at the bottom of this Columbia-hosted document refers to apc.org, which is in South Africa.
So the host -- think body and disease -- Columbia took into itself the Frankfurt School of Marxists, and decades later, the host is being attacked by its "woke" spawn, metastasized.
The tumorous growth at Columbia is apt, and ironic. Note the fine detail in the quote below, as "aliens" are foreshadowed.
"They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal. If it should produce, Aliens would swallow it up." Hosea 8:7
No only when crossing state borders.
Thanks, I think I’m conflating with Mann Act implications.
Time to break out the rubber bullets and and deport these terrorists. I here Hamas needs some more people to replace their declining numbers...
Send them to Gaza.
You always get more of what you allow.
This is going to keep getting worse until they start killing the Jews here in the US.
All these incidents are them testing the waters to see what they can get away with, just how far they can push it.
Dream on. The machinery is already in place to ensure another stolen election.
Right now, it’s just liberal on liberal crime, which always ends in appeasement. Once it shifts to victimizing the rest of us, though, there will be a war.
DNC Convention in Chicago, August.
Students rioting, upset with a war.
Campus unrest with an unpopular President.
I’ve seen this movie before.
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