Columbia University is back in the news again. On Tuesday, the first day of classes, pro-Hamas mopes disrupted a class on the history of modern Israel. Algemeiner has the report and a video that was posted on X.
Here is how the campus newspaper, The Columbia Spectator, is reporting the incident. They also have the video. Here is the statement from the university itself. Columbia has also announced that it is increasing security whatever that means. One encouraging piece of news is that one of the offending students has been identified and suspended. Unfortunately, it seems that most of these suspensions of offending students and groups like Students for Justice in Palestine tend to be short-lived.
Columbia has been arguably the worst university in the country when it comes to anti-Jewish harassment, particularly since October 7, 2023. Whether it be disruptions, encampments (that in Columbia's case, had to be shut down by police), or professors like Joseph Massad celebrating the massacres of October 7 by Hamas, Columbia represents a toxic and rotten environment for Jewish students.
When a class is disrupted by these obnoxious characters, the professor is prevented from doing his or her job, and the students are prevented from getting the education their families pay so much for.
President Trump has promised to address this problem, and to the extent the federal government can withhold funds from Columbia (a private university), or other schools, they should do so. Routine statements of condemnation from the university are not enough when the problem persists. Students who engage in this behavior should be promptly expelled. Hopefully, Columbia is starting to learn its lesson, but there is much more to be done.
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