April 3, 2025: That awkward moment when the people youâre protesting alongside hate Jews so much that even your fake token Jew group gets attacked for being imperialist-
Highlights:
ââNot in Our Nameâ⊠normalizes Zionist tactics of using religion as a tool of colonization.â
ââŠDiminishes the harm committed against Palestinian Jews.â
âThe goal of antizionist Jews should be to disrupt zionist narratives, not to attempt to âsave the soulâ of Judiasm or absolve the Jewish community of its culpability for its communal involvement in zionism.â
This isnât even internally consistent propaganda- if there were such a thing as Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Jewish martyrs, then why shouldnât we be centering Jewish identity as well as Muslim and Christian identities?
Either they know there are no Palestinian Jews and are knowingly lying, or they truly believe there are Palestinian Jews and view their lives as less worthy of remembrance than Palestinian Muslims and Christians.
This is the group that took responsibility for vandalizing Columbia with CUAD, by the way.
I generally detest the New York Post, but they're the ones reporting on the EEOC complaint of Mr. Wilson and Mr. Torres, Columbia janitors.
Both men are making claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging that they faced retaliatory harassment at the institution for âreporting antisemitic and racist conduct.â
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âHours after President [Minouche] Shafik issued her statement [that the university had become âunsafe for everyoneâ], an antisemitic mob assaulted two janitors inside Columbiaâs historic Hamilton Hall, calling them âJew-lovers,'â the two complaints for both men recalled of the Hamilton Hall takeover in April last year.
It all began around November 2023, shortly after the bloody Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel sparked a war. Racist and antisemitic graffiti started to pop up, scrawled all around Hamilton Hall â and the campusâs janitors were forced to clean it up.
âMr. Wilson recognized the swastikas as symbols of white supremacy,â Wilsonâs complaint alleges. âAs an African-American man, he found the images deeply distressing. He reported them to his supervisors, who instructed him to erase the graffiti.â
âNo matter how many times Mr. Wilson removed the swastikas, individuals kept replacing them with more.â
Wilson lost track of how many swastikas he had to scrub, but his colleague Torres, who is Latino, pegged it in the dozens and eventually reached a point where he had enough, his complaint said
âThey were so offensive, and Columbiaâs inaction was so frustrating, that he eventually began throwing away chalk that had been left in the classrooms so vandals would not have anything to write with,â Torresâ complaint alleged.
âHowever, Mr. Torres was reprimanded by his supervisor for doing so.â
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In one instance, around Dec. 6, 2023, Torres and Wilson observed masked protesters storm through Hamilton Hall chanting âFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be freeâ and scrawling swastikas as well as other obscene graffiti in the building.
After Wilson reported that, he was told by campus security that âthe trespassers and vandals were exercising their First Amendment rightsâ and that ânothing could be done,â per the complaint.
On the takeover of Hamilton Hall:
Rioters had moved vending machines and zip-tied doors to barricade the exits and entrances. After deciding he was out of options, Torres decided to battle his way through the mob.
ââIâm going to get twenty guys up here to fâ you up,'â one masked rioter who had âviolentlyâ shoved Torres threatened, per the complaint. âMr. Torres pulled a fire extinguisher, which was within armâs reach, off the wall to defend himself and replied, âIâll be right here.ââ
During that confrontation, Torres was repeatedly struck on his back by other rioters. After repeatedly navigating to blocked-off exits, he eventually found a way out that had been blocked by zip ties and a bike lock. Following his pleas, one of the rioters cut the zip ties and let him out.
Wilson had been separated from Torres during the havoc and had quickly tried to escape after determining the rioters were taking over. During his scramble to get out, rioters smashed furniture into him and pushed him repeatedly, per the complaint.
âHe recalls saying, âI work here. Let me out,'â the complained alleged. âThe rioters responded by laughing at him and mocking him. He remembers being told, âYou work for the Jews,â and âYouâre a Zionist.â Eventually, someone opened a door and Mr. Wilson was physically pushed out of the building.â
Columbia University is facing a new federal investigation over civil rights claims from two maintenance workers who claim to have been attac
Added 3/18/25, from May 2024:
Maintenance workers had a firsthand view of how protesters seized the building, and wondered why the university failed to stop it.
You would have thought that when young women are raped by gangs of armed men that young Americans would not be on the side of the rapists.
by Douglas Murray
One survivor of the Nova party told me of seeing a young woman on her knees in front of a gang of armed men. Her best friend had just been killed in front of her. The terrorists were debating whether to kill her or kidnap her.
âI donât want to die,â she was screaming. The terrorists shot her in the face as she was screaming.
Is it hard to decide which side to be on after an atrocity like that? For me, it isnât. For most Americans, it isnât.
They could have sided with the people who had been kidnapped â including young Americans like 21-year-old Edan Alexander from New Jersey, who is still being held in Hamas captivity. Instead they sided with the kidnappers.
They did so long before Israelâs military response began in Gaza, an action with two aims â to release the hostages and to destroy Hamas.
We now know that on the day of October 7, pro-terror groups in the US were organizing to attack Israel â to demonize it and to lie about it. As I reported here in The Post at the time, on October 8, some of these terrorist supporters gathered in Times Square â to support the massacres as they were still going on.
None of this moral insanity happened because of Israelâs actions. It happened because we have people in our midst who are on the side of the rapists, murderers, beheaders and kidnappers.
What the hell has gone wrong? This is one of the big questions I ask â and try to answer â in my new book. I do because I believe that the outbreak of disorder and violence that has burst out on the streets and campuses of this city since October 7, 2023, is not Israelâs problem. It is ours.
Look at the people who are even now shutting down streets and campuses in New York. Now they are protesting the detention of one of the organizers of the Columbia protests â Mahmoud Khalil. Yesterday students at Columbia chained themselves to a gate in protest at what they call Khalilâs âkidnappingâ by the US immigration authorities.
I must have missed the time they chained themselves to the gates to protest the actual kidnapping of Edan Alexander. Or Hersh Goldberg-Polin from California, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, held captive for a year and murdered by Hamas.
Some campaigners for Khalil have spent recent weeks saying he did nothing wrong. They are trying to pretend that this 30-year-old agitator with a green card who was weirdly living in student accommodation, despite not being a student, is some sort of free-speech martyr. They pretend even now that all he did was act as a ânegotiatorâ for the pro-Hamas students.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Khalil served as the spokesman for a group that called itself Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
This group declares in its own mission statements that it is âfighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.â Good to know. It also claims that the attacks of October 7 were âa moral, military, and political victory.â
I do think it's a pretty slippery slope. We have to be careful and mindful of how these laws get applied. In terms of being deported, I don't think it was particularly egregious with Khalil because CUAD appears to have been receiving support from Hamas.
They were also advocating for Hamas, specifically. And he was given due process, because he wasn't a citizen. You can be deported with a green card for supporting terrorism. He supported terrorism, so he got deported. This is due process, due process means following the law and that is the law.
Whether or not we agree that this should be the law, is a separate argument to whether or not it is the law and I see people arguing that they didn't follow the law, when they actually did. Personally I don't agree with imprisoning anyone in a place like CECOT regardless of what they've said, even if they support Hamas, because I don't believe prisons like CECOT should exist at all.
However, Ozturk's case is a lot more fucked up. She didn't appear to support terrorism, she wrote an op-ed that said Israel should be held accountable for violating international law. This is a violation of her First Amendment rights in America. I'm a Zionist and I've said the exact same thing, if I were in America I could be deported for that? That's not right.
Either way, I don't agree with them being imprisoned over these things, especially not in a place like CECOT, where they won't be given any access to attorneys, and have no ability to contact the outside world. Abrego Garcia's case is also a lot more fucked up because the administration admitted that they made an error, the Supreme Court told them to fix it, and now they're refusing to even try and fix it.
This is all a very slippery slope, because I don't trust when politicians make claims that they should be allowed to deport people for "Expected Beliefs." An expected belief is not a belief. It's not a stated belief. It essentially means that they can think you believe something, and deport you for this.
If youâre wondering why we havenât seen large scale protests on behalf of Ukraine on college campuses, it might have something to do with the widespread pro-terror movement on college campuses, which is incidentally also pro-USSR.
