Columbia University's anti-Israel student club freely distributed a new hateful newspaper on campus Friday, spreading hostile rhetoric calling Jews “colonists” and “conquistadors.” .
While Ivy League organizations condemned the publication, the hate-mongering Palestinian Students for Justice organization openly distributed the first edition of “The Colombian Intifada.”
The group has published over 1,000 rags containing about six articles with titles such as “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood,” “The Myth of the Two-State Solution,” and the handy “How to Make Wheat Paste.” A copy was printed. Disrupting public places with propaganda leaflets or other messages.
New York State Representative Mike Lawler, who represents constituents in Rockland, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties, said it was “outrageous” to allow such publications to take root on campuses.
“If Columbia University cannot protect Jewish students on campus, they should lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked,” the agents wrote. Post to X.
“And the students here on visas who participated in the intifada against American students of the Jewish faith? Deport them,” he raged.
Columbia University itself condemned the paper's publication, citing unauthorized ties to the school.
The university suspended the group last November for repeated violations of school rules, including “threatening statements and threats.”
“Using Columbia's name in a publication that glorifies violence and makes people in our community feel targeted in any way violates our values,” school representatives said. said in a statement to the Post on Friday.
“As we have said repeatedly, discrimination and the promotion of violence and terrorism are unacceptable and run counter to what our community stands for. We will investigate this incident through our appropriate offices and policies. ”
The hate group's four-page spread does not include a byline or information linking the article to its respective author, nor does it solicit outside perspectives or reactions from readers.
The only words on the front page masthead are a quote from a poem by woke radical scholar Sophia Amen: “Genocide, who remembers you?”
The publication and distribution of anti-Israel newsletters upset some Jewish students.
“When you see titles like the 'two-state solution myth,' these people don't want peace,” said Brooke Chasalow, 20, a third-year medical doctorate student. Dual degree program at Tel Aviv University and Columbia University.
Chasarow told the Post that he described himself as a “moderate” on the Middle East conflict and said the conflict between Israel and Palestine was complex and that protesters, including those behind the new inflammatory newspaper, He criticized them for trying to turn it into a “negro war.'' white problem. ”
He added that universities should monitor hateful language, including in headlines published in SJP newspapers.
“I don't think we should encourage that kind of thing,” she said, adding, “Free speech is great, but it's not 'all speech.'” “
Still, she said the paper was an improvement from last year's chaotic protests on campus.
“If they're going to publish a newspaper, it's easier to ignore it. They're not shouting, 'Globalize the intifada!' In my face,” she said.
But another Columbia University student, who declined to give his name or age, said he “supports” the radical publication.
“We encourage diversity of thought in schools that are censored,” she said, without elaborating further.
Some teachers shared Chasarow's views.
Gil Zussman, an electrical engineering professor at Columbia University, was living in Israel during the Middle East's bloody Second Intifada.
Two violent uprisings by Palestinians in Israel's recent history are known as the First Intifada (1987-1993) and the Second Intifada (2000-2005), during which terrorists besieged the country with violence, often including horrific attacks on innocent civilians. The goal is to bring the Jewish state to its knees.
The Anti-Defamation League says the slogan, which references the intifada, “calls for indiscriminate violence against Israel and potentially against Jews and Jewish organizations around the world.”
Zussman cited the fact that copies of the newspaper were being distributed on campus on Friday and promoted on social media by a group known as the “anti-Israel staff group.” Palestine Justice Faculty at Columbia Barnard and Teachers College — “I was very concerned.”
“During the Second Intifada, there were over 100 suicide bombings and numerous bus explosions in Israel, resulting in over 1,000 people being killed.”
I lived in Israel during that terrible time. The fact that teachers are even suggesting that such violence could or should be brought to Colombia is highly irresponsible. ”
Since October 2023, when Islamic extremist groups launched a horrific coordinated terrorist attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and started a war between Palestinian Hamas terrorists and Israel, Columbia University has been the center of a series of devastating attacks on campus. has become one of the centers of sometimes violent anti-Israel protests.
