Anti-Israel protests erupted again at Columbia University on Tuesday, with masked people disrupting classes and handing out fliers stamping on the Star of David with their boots, witnesses told the Post.
The video shows masked protesters storming into a modern Israeli history class on campus and handing out flyers with a flaming Israeli flag and the words “Burn down Zionism.”
The incident comes as Colombia has been named a “national model” for anti-Israel protests and emulated by others for protests organized across the U.S., according to the watchdog group. It is said to have become a template.
A report examining last year's campus protests stated: canary mission After the terrorist group's October 7 attack on Israel, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostages, more than 300 Columbia University faculty, students, and others were called “Influenced to Advance Hamas's Ideology at Columbia University.” He had power.''
But most of those who took part in the protests were “outside agitators” and only 68 were Columbia University students, according to the 53-page study “From Tehran to Colombia: Inside America's Student Intifada.”
Rishi Baker, 22, a Middle Eastern history student whose classes were suspended on Tuesday, told the Post that the posters “looked like images you might see in Germany in the 1930s.”
“This movement continues to reveal itself as pro-terrorism… They spit on liberal values and create an intolerable and hostile environment for Jewish students.”
Following Tuesday's disruption, visiting professor Abhi Shiron told the Post that he was primarily concerned about the safety of his class.
“They just want to scare my students…If you're studying at Columbia, which is an Ivy League university, you should respect first and foremost the need to learn academics, so the students who came to class I was very disappointed in the subject before protesting.
“They act very aggressively… Things like this happen on the street, but not on campus or in class.”
Elsewhere on campus Tuesday, demonstrators banged drums, chanted chants and spread clearly anti-Semitic propaganda despite a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
The groups Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Within Our Lifetime have vowed to continue protesting in 2025, writing on social media: “We will not stop” and urging people to attend rallies. Ta.
“I don't think anyone would have expected masked, intimidating protesters carrying oil drums to barge in,” Baker added.
“It goes against everything higher education stands for. These people are not only openly opposed to debate, they are openly opposed to anyone at the university learning about Israeli history. is against Israeli professors teaching at Columbia University.
Last spring, Columbia University students, with the help of faculty and outside agitators not affiliated with the university, organized a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawn of the Ivy League school in upper Manhattan.
The encampment was organized by the Columbia chapter of Students for Palestine Justice and called for “decapitalization and an end to Colombia's genocidal complicity.”
NYPD removed many of the protesters after the first day, April 17, but many rejoined the protests and remained for two weeks.
“This encampment cemented Colombia as the most notorious center of support for terrorism.
Activists in Colombia then helped promote a national movement,” the Canary Mission report said.
Columbia University student Aidan Parisi and religious studies student Andrew Timberg are also heavily involved in the protests. According to the study, Timberg was a spokesperson for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a coalition of 80 anti-Israel organizations.
The group called on Colombia to reinstate the Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) one month after the October 7 pogrom.
According to reports, Parisi was suspended after he and other protesters occupied the school's Hamilton Hall building.
Canary's report claims that the suspension of SJP's activities is nothing more than a “PR move” since SJP is back under the umbrella of CUAD.
“SJP chapters on college campuses across the United States function as student armies of the Iranian terrorist proxy group Hamas,” the report said, as Colombia hosted the first national SJP conference, during which It added that it had adopted “points of unity” that included the destruction of the organization. Israel.
A Columbia University spokesperson said the school “strongly condemns anti-Semitism.”
“We are absolutely determined that calls for violence and harm will not be tolerated at our university,” the spokesperson said.
“Since taking office in August, interim president [Katrina] Armstrong and her leadership team have taken decisive action to strengthen Columbia University's academic mission, make our community safe, and strengthen and clarify our disciplinary processes. ”
