An anti-Israel scholar membership at Columbia College freely distributed a brand new hateful newspaper on campus Friday — peddling antagonistic rhetoric calling Jews “colonists” and “subjugators.”
Whereas the Ivy League establishment denounced the publication, the hate-fueled group College students for Justice in Palestine overtly handed out its inaugural version of “The Columbia Intifada.”
The group printed 1,000 copies of the rag, which comprises a few half-dozen articles with titles together with “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood,” “The Myth of the Two-State Solution” and a useful “Guide to Wheatpasting” — a technique of vandalizing public surfaces with propaganda fliers or different messaging.
Permitting such a publication to take root on campus is “outrageous,” mentioned New York Congressman Mike Lawler, who represents voters in Rockland, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties.
“If Columbia cannot protect Jewish students on their campus, they should lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked,” the rep wrote in a submit on X.
“And for those students here on a visa engaged in an “intifada” in opposition to American college students of the Jewish religion? Deport them,” he raged.
Columbia itself denounced the newspaper’s publication, together with its unauthorized affiliation with the college by title.
The college suspended the group final November for repeatedly violating college insurance policies, together with with its “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.”
“Using the Columbia name for a publication that glorifies violence and makes individuals in our community feel targeted in any way is a breach of our values,” a faculty consultant mentioned in an announcement to The Publish on Friday.
“As we have said repeatedly, discrimination and promoting violence or terror is not acceptable and antithetical to what our community stands for. We are investigating this incident through our applicable offices and policies.”
The hateful group’s four-page unfold contains no bylines or any info connecting the articles to their respective authors, neither is there any solicitation for out of doors views or reactions from readers.
The one phrases on the front-page masthead is a quote from a poem by woke extremist scholar Sophia Armen, which reads, “You, genocider — who remembers you?”
The publication and distribution of the anti-Israel e-newsletter rattled some Jewish college students.
“When I see stuff like that, the title, ‘Myth of the Two-State Solution,’ these people don’t want peace,” mentioned Brooke Chasalow, 20, a pre-med junior who spent the earlier two years in Israel by way of the dual-degree Tel Aviv College-Columbia College program.
Chasalow, who described herself to The Publish as “moderate” on the Center East battle, mentioned the battle between Israel and Palestine is sophisticated, and he or she criticized protesters equivalent to these behind the brand new incendiary paper for making an attempt to show it right into a “black and white issue.”
She added that the college needs to be monitoring for hateful language, together with the headlines printed within the SJP newspaper.
“I don’t think we should encourage that stuff,” she mentioned, including, “Free speech is a superb factor, nevertheless it’s not ‘any speech.’ “
Nonetheless, she mentioned, the paper was an enchancment from the chaotic protests on campus final 12 months.
“If they’re going to put out newspapers, that’s easier to ignore. They’re not screaming, ‘Globalize the intifada!’ in my face,” she mentioned.
However one other Columbia scholar who declined to provide her title or age mentioned she is “supportive” of the novel publication.
“I encourage the diversity of ideas in a school when we’re being censored,” she mentioned with out elaborating additional.
Some college members shared Chasalow’s viewpoint.
Gil Zussman, a professor {of electrical} engineering at Columbia, lived in Israel throughout the Mideast’s bloody second Intifada.
Two violent uprisings by Palestinians in Israel’s current historical past are often called the primary Intifada (1987-1993) and the second Intifada (2000-2005), through which terrorists besieged the nation with violence, typically together with horrific assaults in opposition to harmless civilians, with the acknowledged purpose of bringing the Jewish state to its knees.
The Antidefamation League says slogans referencing Intifada “call for indiscriminate violence against Israel, and potentially against Jews and Jewish institutions worldwide.”
Zussman mentioned the truth that copies of the newspaper had been being handed out on campus Friday — and being promoted on social media by an anti-Israel employees collective often called the School and Employees for Justice in Palestine at Columbia, Barnard, and Academics Faculty — was “very concerning.”
“During the second Intifada, over 100 suicide bombings took place in Israel, and numerous buses exploded, resulting in over 1,000 people murdered,” he mentioned.
I lived in Israel by way of that horrible interval. The truth that college indicate that such violence might or needs to be imported to Columbia is extraordinarily irresponsible.”
Columbia College has been one of many epicenters for disruptive and at instances violent anti-Israel protests on campus since Israel’s conflict with Palestinian Hamas terrorists began in October 2023 when the Islamic extremist group launched a horrific coordinated terror assault, killing 1,200 Israelis.
