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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Sniper time
one building down, dozens to go ... would be nice to see the campus insurrectionists permanently destroy Columbia University as a going concern ... ya’ll keep up the good work, ya’ hear!
In a completely normal world, with reports of school employees essentially being kidnapped and held hostage for a period of time, NYPD SWAT, or whatever they call it, would have been mobilized, forced entry to the building arrested Anyone refusing to leave and swept it for any possible other hostages
“permanently destroy Columbia University as a going concern ...”
They would have to take over the endowment hedge fund to do that. I’m thinking that would bring the deep state down on them hard. Riots are one thing. They are acting then as the left’s disposable brownshirts and for the left, having insane little brothers to sic on society periodically is a good thing.
But removing leftist control of billions of dollars (Columbia’s hedge fund — I mean their endowment — is about 14 billion dollars producing about $658,000,000 a year in income for indoctrination). That’s completely different and would not be tolerated for one instant.
The Ivy league schools are just very small universities attached to very large hedge funds. These ridiculous rioters have no idea they are dealing with that and will not be allowed to change that at all.
Red Diaper Doper Babies.
Check their tents. The fact they are all new and the same brand suggests somebody is paying the students. Follow the money...
CE Ruthenberg
In 1909 CE Ruthenberg received his law degree from Columbia. This was eight years before Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution established with world’s first Communist nation, and ten years before Lenin’s government established the Communist International. (The Communist International, or “Comintern,” was the network of subordinate Communist parties the Soviet Union established in foreign countries, for purposes of subversion.)
Having no Communist party to join, Ruthenberg became active in the Socialist Party USA.
In 1919, upon the establishment of Comintern, Ruthenberg became a leader of one of the two or three different American Communist parties vying for Russian recognition and support. The Russians forced the rival parties to merge in 1922, under the name Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). Ruthenberg was the first Executive Secretary of the CPUSA, a position he would hold until his death in 1927. After his death, Ruthenberg’s body was cremated, and an urn containing his ashes was placed in the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
Isaiah Oggins
Isaiah Oggins enrolled at Columbia in 1917. He worked as a Soviet agent in the US for several years, but was arrested by Soviet authorities in 1939, during one of Joseph Stalin’s paranoia-driven purges. Oggins was sent to a prison camp that year. In 1947 he was executed.
Harry Dexter White
In 1922 Harry Dexter White enrolled at Columbia. He would go on to become one of the most influential Soviet agents in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. During WWII he reported directly to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, and served as liaison between the Treasury Department and the State Department. He then went as the United States’ official representative (unofficially representing the Soviet Union) to the Bretton Woods conference where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund were founded.
Paul Robeson
In 1923 Paul Robeson received his law degree from Columbia. He turned from law to show business and was soon using his fame to promote and support Communist causes. In 1934 he went on a pilgrimage to the Soviet Union. In 1952 the Soviet government awarded him its Stalin Peace Prize. In 1954 he wrote a magazine article in praise of Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh, who would soon be fighting a war against the United States.
Whittaker Chambers
In 1925 an ex-Columbia student named Whittaker Chambers joined Ruthenberg’s Communist party. Chambers had become friends with Isaiah Oggins while both of them were students. In 1932 Chambers began his career as a Soviet spy, reporting indirectly to the party’s new General Secretary, Earl Browder. Eventually he would renounce Communism and give the names of dozens of his fellow spies to the FBI.
Philip Jessup
In 1927 Philip Jessup received his PhD in law at Columbia. In the 1940’s Jessup held several high level positions in the US State Department. He played a key role in undermining American support for Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek, thus facilitating Mao Zedong’s ascent to power, and all the carnage that resulted therefrom. In 1951 Joseph McCarthy forced Jessup to admit that he belonged to five different Communist front groups, and that he had a close and ongoing relationship with Soviet agent Frederick Field.1
Rex Tugwell
In that same year Columbia professors Rexford Tugwell and George Counts traveled to the Soviet Union with Columbia law student Carlos Israels, and several other left wing scholars and union leaders.2 When they made the trip, the United States was still refusing, after ten years, to officially recognize the Soviet Union. Mainstream labor leaders like John L. Lewis and William Green refused to have anything to do with the Soviets.3 The Soviet economy was moribund, and dictator Joseph Stalin needed loans and technology from the free world to keep his grip on the country.4
Tugwell and his companions toured Russia and wrote about what they saw in glowing terms. Especially impressive to Tugwell was the collectivization of agriculture, which, he believed, was the path to efficient food production. The accounts Tugwell and his fellow pilgrims wrote of their travels in the Soviet Union helped encourage the transfers of credit and technology that Stalin needed to maintain control of the country.
When Columbia law school grad Franklin Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, he made Tugwell and two other Columbia scholars his “brain trust,” with Tugwell serving as Undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture. Tugwell was never a Communist, but his fondness for centralized government control over the private sector was one of the underpinnings of Roosevelt’s left wing New Deal policies.
Roosevelt, who could never believe anything bad about Stalin, soon gave formal recognition to the Soviet Union.
Turn off the electricity, the water, and the (horrors!!) Wi-fi to the building. Then just sit back and wait. Call the city and report that people are occupying the building which is unsafe for human habitation (no water) and watch the city clear the building.
“They would have to take over the endowment hedge fund to do that.”
nope ... all they need to do is convince parents not to send their children to this school anymore because it’s not safe ... a university with tens of billions of dollars and almost no students isn’t a going concern anymore ...
The university boards and administration didn't simply enable it, they encouraged and promoted it.
I have a cunning plan to bring the full wrath of the DOJ on the protestors. Mix in a few “Abortion is Murder!” and “Rights for the Preborn!” banners in with the pro-terrorist ones.
Couldn’t’ve happen to a better place!
We dont need no edjumucashun!
Soros. Bingo
4 dead in Ohio.
4 dead in Ohio.
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