Antonia Hylton, a NBC and MSNBC editor, claimed on Sunday that the anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University were really peaceful because a school rabbi told Israeli students to keep for their own security. ”
Our staff spent countless hours on Thursday and throughout Columbia’s college reporting on and around it. Friday. I want to tidy up some of the clutter. On the grass or at the undergraduate camp, I saw no instances of violence or aggression. The student-led opposition was quiet and usually very quiet …
— Antonia Hylton ( @ahylton26 ) April 21, 2024
An illegal encampment was removed by the New York Police Department ( NYPD ) and has since returned in protest of university authorities and the law. People of anti-Israel organizations that have disrupted lessons and harassed Jewish students have also been suspended by the university, according to reviewers. Some rallies on or close to school have included antisemitic and directly pro-terror chants.
An Catholic priest who works with the campus community advised Hebrew students to leave campus this weekend and not to go back until security had significantly improved.
According to Hamilton, the only violent confrontations and extremist rhetoric took place outside the campus ‘ gates, among those who had been detained from entering and those who were n’t actually Columbia or Barnard students.
The single conflicts or hostility I witnessed outside the walls, on Broadway Avenue, were extreme. I made repeated approaches to those in that audience. Every person I approached claimed they were hardly a pupil at Columbia or Barnard. None of them had access to college medals.
— Antonia Hylton ( @ahylton26 ) April 21, 2024
Howard did not seem to take into account that Columbia students, specifically graduate students, spend some time off-campus and that Broadway is a significant street that cannot be easily overlooked by those on campus.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it),” now available on Audible. He is also the author of the e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
