Something tells me that the foreign-student agitator issue won’t trouble Columbia University for long. They may not get the chance to be troubled by foreign students at all after yesterday’s disgraceful paroxysm of anti-Semitic intimidation and violence.
As both John and David have already recounted, pro-Hamas demonstrators seized control of yet another building on the Columbia campus, threatened Jewish students for being “Zionists,” and committed violence and vandalism. They also revealed themselves as something less than von Clausewitz when it comes to planning their battles, Police showed up and locked them in the building, and refused to allow them to leave unless they unmasked and identified themselves.
That led to mass arrests … finally:
Maybe next time, they’ll stick to the quad, eh? This is what should have happened in every single riot and…
