protesters on campus calling for Jews to be killed, just off-campus Jews being yelled at to ‘go back to Poland

[Della]

Too little, too much, or a good start?

This is what they want:

"[Shafik] needs to open the gates of the university. And NYPD needs to come in and disperse the crowd and arrest everyone who refuses. And keep them in jail. And if the NYPD cannot do this, then we need the National Guard," Davidai told Fox News Digital. "With all the fraught history the National Guard has had on U.S. campuses, if Columbia can't keep the Jewish students safe, and if the police [can't] continue to keep the Jewish students safe, then the National Guard must, because this is a civil rights issue. This is not about the war in Israel. This is a Jewish civil rights issue."


Judaism is not a race. It's a religion. This doesn't violate their religious rights. However, what they are demanding violates the first amendment rights of those they want to silence.

I really fear that we're going to see "four dead in Ohio".

Me too

[WellPreserved]

Just for context, these are the student groups that form the Columbia University Apartheid Divest and this is what they want:

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opini ... l%20people.

[Lexy]

With their masks and headscarves! If we actually had a functional law enforcement, all of those arrested and encountered would have background checks, classified as US citizens or not, as students or not, and a database created. Those who are not students should be arrested by the campus police and charged with trespassing. ALL of their names need to be published in a publicly accessible database.

[WellPreserved]

With their masks and headscarves! If we actually had a functional law enforcement, all of those arrested and encountered would have background checks, classified as US citizens or not, as students or not, and a database created. Those who are not students should be arrested by the campus police and charged with trespassing. ALL of their names need to be published in a publicly accessible database.

Hate speech is not a crime but some of language used is directly threatening which is. I agree that they should be arrested and charged. I also agree that campus trespassers should be removed from campus and arrested if they are threatening violence.

Why would citizenship matter?

Arrest records are part of the public record. I don't think there needs to be a special list.

[WellPreserved]

This thread offers some good historical and present context regarding protest at Columbia:

[Momto2boys973]

So they’re being taken over by anarchist savages who support terrorism and they want to “talk”….
I agree. It’s vile. It’s validating and legitimizing the support of terrorism.

It’s F***ing disgusting … innocent college students are being targeted by terrorist sympathizers because they’re Jewish so often so they have to cancel class and we’re asking if it’s a good start…


It’s vile.

Too little, too much, or a good start?

[Slimshandy]

It’s F***ing disgusting … innocent college students are being targeted by terrorist sympathizers because they’re Jewish so often so they have to cancel class and we’re asking if it’s a good start…


It’s vile.

Too little, too much, or a good start?

The videos showing us the attacks against the Jewish students were vile. They were taken off campus, likely not committed by students, and the actions and words were denounced by the student protestors. The protest at Columbia alone was a coalition of over 100 student organizations.

Threats and hate speech should not be tolerated but the student groups who were not involved in the vile behavior should be heard. What do you think should happen?

Quite the conundrum huh?
“ We want to force everyone to listen when we speak but there’s just so many damn terrorists on our side”…

[Momto2boys973]

And it’s now well known that those numbers are false.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/new ... ty-numbers

Hamas had to admit not having data on over 11,000 of the alleged casualties. Which means the number is about 22,000, not 32,000. The IDF recognized 13,000 Hamas combatants amongst the casualties. That makes for the best civilian-combatant ratio of any urban warfare. And it certainly doesn’t add up to the “women and children” narrative, which is deceiving in itself. A “child” in international law would be anyone under 18 and Hamas uses teenagers as young as 14 as combatants. Several terrorist attacks in Israel have been committed by 14, 15 and 16 year olds. Women terrorists abound too. These are combatants, not “innocent civilians”.

[quoteNearly six months after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, almost three out of four Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank (71%) believe the attacks were justified, according to a poll released by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR).

Last December, a poll conducted by the same organization found that 72% of Palestinian respondents similarly supported the Hamas attacks in southern Israel, which killed some 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, most of them civilians, and captured 253 others, according to Israeli figures. In the ensuing sustained bombing campaign and ground offensive in Gaza, more than 32,000 Palestinians, about two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and 252 Israeli soldiers, have been killed.]

https://themedialine.org/top-stories/po ... on-israel/
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[SallyMae]

Should we start listing all the times the US has killed civilians during a war? Wanna talk Kabul? Does that give a right to hate America and wish it didn’t exist?

So you “understand” her hatred? You think it’s valid. But apparently only when it’s directed at Israel.

No, I hated America and questioned its right to exist because of Kabul. Wrong is wrong.

[Della]

Just for context, these are the student groups that form the Columbia University Apartheid Divest and this is what they want:

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opini ... l%20people.

However, the University’s weaponization of policy to silence students enables the atrocities that Israel has subjected Palestinians to for decades—atrocities that began when Zionist militias violently forced over 700,000 Palestinians, 75 percent of the population, out of their homes in 1948, and which have continuously escalated with virtual impunity since."