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Columbia student who praised Mahmoud Khalil arrest in WSJ op-ed received death threats: ‘These people are ridiculous’
NY Post ^ | 03/20/2025 | Chris Nesi

Posted on 03/20/2025 3:04:54 PM PDT by DFG

A Columbia University freshman who wrote an article praising the arrest and possible deportation of campus agitator Mahmoud Khalil was almost immediately besieged with unhinged messages from fellow students calling him “Zionist scum” and urging him to kill himself.

Lucca Ruggieri’s March 18 commentary in the Wall Street Journal voiced full-throated support for President Trump’s efforts to oust troublemakers like Khalil from campus — while questioning how someone who “harbors hostilities” toward American values was even admitted to the prestigious school in the first place.

“It’s like little kids. You say one thing that hurts their feelings, and they have a temper tantrum,” Ruggieri told The Post Thursday. “This is not the sort of person that one of our top institutions should be admitting.”

Ruggieri, 19, an economics major from Pennsylvania who eyed elite institutions like Yale and Harvard before deciding on Columbia, said he did so because it’s “an Ivy League school basically in the center of the universe” — despite its reputation as a “politically controversial place.”

Within hours of the article’s publication, Ruggieri said the rage started flooding in on Sidechat — an anonymous messaging app for Ivy League schools, which requires a student email address to use.

“Someone said, ‘Can we please end this Zionist scum,’ ‘We need to place a fatwa on him.’ Other people sent me messages saying to kill myself, those sort of things,” he said.

A fatwa is a formal ruling issued under Islamic law which, in some cases, is a call for a death sentence.

Someone even took the time to Photoshop his head onto a Nazi SS officer’s body.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 03/20/2025 3:04:54 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

They think they should never lose. As Justice Thomas observed.


2 posted on 03/20/2025 3:07:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: DFG

It’s way past time these jerks pay a heavy, painful price.


3 posted on 03/20/2025 3:10:02 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: DFG

The density of dunces at Columbia appear to be approaching critical mass. Encase those clowns in lead before they produce a fission cloud of stupidity. Ship that case back to some backward country ruled by the religion of hate and lies.


4 posted on 03/20/2025 3:13:50 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: DFG

wake up
its a war
right now its property
lets go pam, leagally rip their throats out


5 posted on 03/20/2025 3:20:05 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: DFG

We are at war.


6 posted on 03/20/2025 3:35:35 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Da Coyote

Why on earth is Columbia receiving money from taxpayers in the first place? They have huge endowments of their own.


7 posted on 03/20/2025 3:44:45 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Fledermaus

Cut their funding off. Every dollar of it.


8 posted on 03/20/2025 3:46:10 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Right back.


9 posted on 03/20/2025 3:49:55 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: No name given

Right now.


10 posted on 03/20/2025 3:50:10 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DFG

But the former Jackass “judge”, John E. Jones III is worried about “somebody getting killed” because of the “rhetoric” being used by Americans against the black-robed DNC “pipe bombs” obstucting the Executive Branch of the Government WE THE PEOPLE elected. He’s a retard.


11 posted on 03/20/2025 3:52:51 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The DemonRATs and their "judges" are sending Tren de Aragua to your house. Be ready..)
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To: DFG

The simple truth is that Khalil would love to kill Jews if he could but thinks he can better serve his murderous masters by organizing others to kill them.


12 posted on 03/20/2025 4:01:14 PM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Fledermaus

Time for another Kent State.


13 posted on 03/20/2025 4:36:52 PM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: DFG

Well, Lucca, now you know: that “ivy League school” you thought was “at the center of the universe” turned out to be an academic black hole.


14 posted on 03/20/2025 7:02:19 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: DFG
Those on the..non Left might consider their own REVERSE French Revolution.
15 posted on 03/21/2025 6:45:04 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Enrique Tarrio? “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrew)
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To: cowboyusa
Time for another Kent State.

Didn't the student side fire first? Things went pell mell from there.

16 posted on 03/21/2025 6:46:48 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Enrique Tarrio? “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrew)
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To: Stepan12

They were throwing rocks.


17 posted on 03/21/2025 6:57:34 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: cowboyusa
I heard one of the...students aimed his gun at a Colored man. There was a book called the "Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties" i.e., the p.i.g. books, and it stated words along that line.

You should note that I am giving reference fo what I wrote -- and rocks are dangerous weapons, too. Rocks can kill.

18 posted on 03/21/2025 9:06:52 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Enrique Tarrio? “Remember the prisoners as if chained with them – those who are mistreated…” Hebrew)
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To: Stepan12

They also burned down an ROTC building. Should have been a LOT more than 4.


19 posted on 03/21/2025 9:36:51 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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