Tentifada season is back on campus.
On Wednesday night, dozens of anti-Israeli invaders pushed their way into Barnard College’s Milbank Hall, banging drums and chanting “resistance is justified when people are occupied” and other genocidal slogans from the “The Idiot’s Guide to Intifada.”
On the walls, the masked up thugs organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, reportedly scribbled “f—k Barnard” and “free Palestine.”
Since Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, rabid pro-Palestinian protesters have terrorized elite college campuses, taking over buildings, swathes of campuses and harassing Jewish students. Few colleges had the backbone to dish out any meaningful discipline.
But this latest march of the resistance LARPers, in which they “physically assaulted” one employee who was sent to the hospital, was sparked after the school expelled two students, very deserving of such treatment.
Last month, the masked cowards barged into “History of Modern Israel” class at Columbia University and started handing out antisemitic flyers depicting Nazi imagery, including a boot stomping on a Star of David.
The stated mission of these marauders? To reinstate their crybaby comrades and the “abolition of the corrupt Barnard disciplinary process and complete transparency for current, past, and future disciplinary proceedings.”
But make no mistake, this was really just a pack of privileged rich kids getting their kicks by creating mayhem — covered by the delusion that it was social justice.
In the videos shared online, it was clear who was boss. And to the great shame of Barnard, it’s clearly the students.
In one particularly humiliating clip, Barnard Dean Leslie Grinage is heckled with chants of “shame” and laughed at by the protesters as she apparently goes to the restroom.
Columbia’s Student for Justice in Palestine celebrated the domination of the latrines and the subjugation of their feeble authority figure on X, writing,
“Dean Leslie Grinage of @Barnardcollege just asked for our permission to uses the bathroom. Guess who has the upper hand now.”
And that’s it. All they want. To crush a system — and laugh while doing it. A system that ironically empowered them to turn into entitled monsters.
The college officials have not only allowed this perverse inversion of power — they’ve encouraged it.
After all, these aren’t noble young idealists with a sincere interested in humanity.
They are a confederation of the most annoying people you know, banding together to create a cohesive group of likeminded idiots.
They have simply replaced traditional collegiate social structures — like campus recreational clubs, sororities and fraternities – with these organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine. And they get a pass to destroy property, assault workers and obstruct student’s freedom to learn because their mission upholds the intersectional principles that have infected academia.
Never mind that they couldn’t find Gaza on a map.
Yes, instead of wearing t-shirts with Greek letters, they cover their faces with medical masks and keffiyahs. Beer bongs replaced with their megaphones and drums.
If a pack of rowdy frat boys occupied a building over an ultimate frisbee dispute, does anyone think that would be tolerated? Why is the school not holding these kids to the same standards?
Barnard is allowing the group a run roughshod over them. Still. While acknowledging the group “showed blatant disregard for the safety of our community,” the school also pandered to them.
“We have made multiple good-faith efforts to de-escalate. Barnard leadership offered to meet with the protesters,” Robin Levine, Barnard College’s vice president for strategic communications said in a statement. “They refused. We have also offered mediation.”
Pardon me? Mediation? A meeting? The only purpose to convene would be to physically hand them papers that make their ejection from the institution 100 percent official.
But it’s tough to take back the asylum after you’ve handed it over to the inmates.
Even our governor Kathy Hochul, who likes to talk a big game about banning masks and cracking down on antisemitism, has learned this. She recently pushed tax payer supporter CUNY to take down a job listening for a course on “Palestinian Studies” that critics said demonized Israel.
But after years of antisemitism festering within CUNY, she hasn’t cleaned house or forced some meaningful leadership change there.
She offers only mouthed statements that are nothing more than band-aids.
The leadership vaccuum has never been more apparent.
