Protest distribute pro-Hamas brochures encouraging violence
Anti-Israel protest barged into an Jewish history class at Columbia University on Tuesday to go out pro-Hamas brochures that showed the Star of David being destroyed.
“Four student activists, donning keffiyehs, marched into the class, ‘History of Modern Israel, ’ filming themselves as they recited a script, passed out propaganda, and harassed students, most of whom are Jewish, according to a student in the class, ” The Washington Free Beacon reported.
Columbia undergraduate Elisha Baker posted a video of the incident to X.
It’s moment 1 of Prof. @shilonavi History of Modern Israel @Columbia and masked protest only barged in to terrify and destroy. So much for “academic independence. ”
Welcome to Columbia, 2025! photograph. tweets. com/S6GbzKFqut
— Elisha ( Lishi ) Baker ( @LishiBaker ) January 21, 2025
“So little for ‘academic flexibility. ’ Welcome to Columbia, 2025! ” the scholar wrote.
The picture shows an Israeli doctor, Avi Shilon, telling the demonstrators to keep. “This is a civil rights violation. We’re trying to learn, ” he said.
Baker also posted photos of the flyers the protestors distributed, which read, “The enemy will not see tomorrow, ” “Burn Zionism to the ground, ” and “Crush Zionism. ” One brochure showed an Jewish flag on fire.
“The opponent will not see tomorrow ”
“Burn Zionism to the floor”
“Crush Zionism”These were the brochures thrown at us by angry protest in @shilonavi History of Modern Israel school now @Columbia photograph. tweets. com/vNwPY6Prm Q
— Elisha ( Lishi ) Baker ( @LishiBaker ) January 21, 2025
Shilon told the Free Beacon the affair “did not prevent [him]. ”
“[ O]n the contrary, it just makes me feel that it is so important to teach and to study Israel from a real historian who this is his field of expertise, ” he said.
University President Katrina Armstrong even responded to the event, stating, “We highly condemn this disturbance, as well as the leaflets that included harsh imagery that is undesirable on our school and in our neighborhood. ”
“Disrupting intellectual pursuits constitutes a violation of the Rules of University do and the nature of the disruption may form violations of various University plans, ” Armstrong stated.
She also stated that the university does “investigate and solve this work. ”
“We want to be completely obvious that any action of hatred, or another form of discrimination, intimidation, or coercion against members of our community is undesirable and will not be tolerated, ” she stated.
Meanwhile, Columbia is offering a course on “Zionism ” taught by a professor who described terrorist attacks by Hamas against Israel as “awesome, ” The College Fix previously reported.
“The sure, being racist provocation from beginning to end, directly creates an environment of love and intolerance against Jewish students, ” Yaakov Menken, chairman of the Coalition for Jewish Values, told The Fix next month.
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