Privilege is when you hold a loudly disruptive, all-night hate festival in the center of campus, sleep in cozy, matching tents, and when the grown-ups finally force you to leave, custodians who work hard for a living are called in to clean up your mess.
BREAKING: We're hearing reports of significant police activity around campus.
Our hearts are breaking for thousands of students who came to
@Columbia
whose dream of learning has been devastated by a circus of narcissists, egged on by irresponsible faculty.
COURAGE is when you're a night-shift custodian, who protects students by taking on a masked intruder all by yourself - while cosplaying, tenured professors in matching safety vests sit outside, letting others implement the doctrine of destruction they teach.
@Columbia
University
Who tweeted today about antisemitism on campus?
Mayor Eric Adams
Governor Kathy Hochul (D)
Rep Elise Stefanik (R)
Rep Ritchie Torres (D)
Meghan McCain (R)
The White House (D)
Congrats
@Columbia
leaders. You've created bi-partisan consensus on total failure to DO YOUR JOBS.
NYPD’s 26th precinct has been taking an extraordinary amount of abuse while dealing with belligerent, entitled protesters
@Columbia
University.
Can we get a like and a RT to say a collective American THANK YOU to these incredible men and women? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@NYPDnews
We are alums, we are parents and we are HORRIFIED.
President Shafik and COO Cas Holloway: These are student dorms. You have a solemn duty to PROTECT all students. WAKE UP!
@NYPD26Pct
BREAKING: CJAA sends open letter to President Shafik
@Columbia
warning that campus is now under MOB RULE and calling for IMMEDIATE CLOSURE OF COLUMBIA GATES and ENFORCEMENT of University rules of conduct.
Originally we were told that three of the Deans caught texting antisemitic tropes had been removed.
Then, we were told they were on paid, permanent leave.
Now it seems that were just reassigned?
What the hell,
@Columbia
. WTH.
@CC_Columbia
@CUSEAS
@EdWorkforceCmte
BREAKING: CJAA declares administrators and professors the PRIMARY CULPRITS for campus antisemitism in new public call for accountability today.
"It is clear that Antisemitism runs deeper at Columbia than protests and encampments..."
@Columbia
@CC_Columbia
@BarnardCollege
It is testament to the absolute professionalism of NYPD that we have peace on campus this morning. We're told they'll stay until May 17.
Please join us in a THANK YOU to NYPD and police officers across America. Under hysterical media scrutiny, they got it done.
For months, fellow students have denied our lived experience. As we wrap up a semester of violence and antisemitism, we, the Jewish students at Columbia University who ARE deeply connected to our People and culture, would like to speak in our name.
Please take a moment to read
CONFIRMED: Shafik has buckled to the narcissistic, attention-seeking, anti-Jewish, hate mob, and moved her own midnight deadline to 8am.
You can't make this sh*t up.
RAYS OF HOPE: A group of non-Jewish Columbia alumni raised close to $10K in just ONE DAY on FB for Columbia/Barnard Hillel this week.
This reflects the moral clarity and authentic spirit of inclusion that once defined our school - and which we fully intend to restore
@cbhillel
BREAKING: New CJAA email blasts
@Columbia
University leaders, AT WHAT POINT WILL THE ADMINISTRATION ENFORCE the... RESTRICTIONS THAT YOU, President Shafik, ASSURED CONGRESS WERE IN EFFECT? Warns, THE WORLD IS WATCHING.
@EdWorkforceCmte
To the irresponsible faculty who cried rivers that NYPD ended the antisemitic hate festival at
@Columbia
this week. Here's what NYPD found in our school:
"Gas masks, ear plugs, helmets, goggles, tape, hammers, knives, ropes, and a book on TERRORISM. "
You are a disgrace.
Pencils, books, laptops, those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus. But here’s what the NYPD found in Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after we were able to arrest the protestors and agitators for commandeering and barricading themselves
BREAKING: 3
@Columbia
Deans have been placed on leave following 'textgate'. Leaders sent three separate emails today.
1/4 President Shafik's email announcement admits:
"The incident revealed BEHAVIOR and SENTIMENTS that were not only UNPROFESSIONAL, but also, disturbingly
BREAKING: We're receiving reports that SJP Columbia has broken into Hamilton Hall; some faculty in vests may be supporting them. Police are on site.
This violence and chaos is DURING FINALS. Condoned by radical professors. SHAME on
@Columbia
leaders for disgracing our school
Classes
@Columbia
University are now Zoom optional. This means that Jewish Students can attend on Zoom, while students who support terrorism and Jew hatred get to attend in person.
So... separate, but equal.
JUST NOW:
@SpeakerJohnson
shocked by what he saw on our campus, declares intention to call
@POTUS
, discuss calling out the National Guard.
@Columbia
University leaders, WAKE UP.
This is admitted students weekend. For many, a first chance to visit the dream school they can hardly believe they got into, after years of sacrifice and hard work.
What a sh*tshow.
@Columbia
University.
This absolutely DISGUSTING tweet had to get through three levels of
@washingtonpost
reporting culture and scrutiny:
1. The article's author, Columbia alum
@Jslaternyc
who wrote the language
2. The copy editor, who approved it
3. The social media team, who selected it from among
The Deans caught texting rather than listening during the alumni panel acted like rookies, not leaders. Their dismissive content was almost icing on the cake.
Josef Sorett
Susan Chang-Kim
Cristen Kromm
Matthew Patashnik
We can't believe we need to say it: Put your phones away.
In the wake of 'textgate', alums continue to share stories of their experiences at
@Columbia
. The more recently they graduated, the worse they get.
Columbia administrators: This DECLINE happened on YOUR WATCH. Take responsibility and LEAD the change to restore our school.
An anti-Israel mob surrounded me for nearly an hour, tearing up my notebook, pushing me, calling me names, blowing an air horn in my ear, boxing me in to restrict my movement, but I refused to leave.
I did, however, file a police report. It’s now in NYPD’s hands.
BREAKING: Big police presence and FBI now at the gates outside campus. Rumors swirling that a 2pm deadline has been set.
Literally HOURS after sending an appeasement email.
It's almost like Shafik WANTS to win the Worst University Leadership Ever award.
BREAKING:
@Columbia
's own task force declares that antisemitism on campus, "amounts to a HEARTBREAKING account of HARASSMENT and EXCLUSION," calls on the university leaders to "DO SOMETHING"
In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:
TONIGHT AT COLUMBIA! A unity march of Christians and Jews w/
@StandWithUs
@seanfeucht
@ericmetaxas
@russellbjohnson
and alums of ALL FAITHS will stand together against hate.
America is recognizing that leadership at once-great universities has failed.
1/4 All this week we will be posting specific examples of why we are now convinced that nothing short of a staff and faculty overhaul is required to restore Columbia's legacy.
As alums, WE HAVE THE RECEIPTS.
Let's start...
@Columbia
@CC_Columbia
@BarnardCollege
cc"
The SJP Columbia insta account is so batsh*t crazy, it almost defies belief.
It's like an angry toddler put selected, woke reading lists from Middle East Inst, School of Social Work, Mailman and Law Schools in a blender, swallowed, then barfed up the content.
CONFIRMED: Shafik and
@Columbia
University have now abandoned all self-imposed red lines.
Also, a George Orwell award goes to the lawyer who wrote the line: "student protestors have taken steps to make the encampment welcome to all..."
For those unfamiliar with
@Columbia
University campus, this mayhem is directly in front of the library and several dorms. Finals start in <10 days. You don't have to be Jewish to be deeply concerned about the academic priorities of professors who condone and encourage this.
CALLING ALL ALUMS: 600+ high-profile Columbia alumni, including a former chair of the board of trustees, blasted President Shafik, issued public statement.
"The current approach...is demonstrably not working"
ALL ALUMS invited to sign:
We got an INSANE number of alumni messages about this. Apparently,
@Columbia
leaders who attended an alumni reunion panel for Jews spent it... texting derisive comments about Jews.
The call is coming from inside the house.
BREAKING: CJAA alums DEMAND STAFF and FACULTY OVERHAUL following DEANS TEXTS that MAKE A MOCKERY of Columbia's stated concerns for inclusivity when it comes to Jews.
"Administrators and professors are the primary culprits... Fundamental change is needed"
To all current and newly accepted students - Jewish and non-Jewish, alike - we won't stop fighting to make
@Columbia
and
@BarnardCollege
your dream school again.
On Friday morning, we're organizing a rally for the hostages outside Columbia University. Please share this so every Israeli and Jew in New York can join us. We mustn't forget them. We can't allow any discussions about the region to continue without saying Hostages Release First.
Today is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Israel. Many of us are kids and grandkids of survivors.
Today especially we are reminded what we're up against and what we're fighting for. We have zero intention of backing down.
Am Yisrael Chai.
BREAKING: Chair of the House Committee on Education and Workforce, Representative Virginia Foxx, slams
@Columbia
's leadership in an interview with
@JNS_org
.
"Every rock that this committee’s investigation turns over is more proof that ‘elite’ institutions are rotting away and
BREAKING: An amended FEDERAL LAWSUIT has been filed against
@Columbia
and
@BarnardCollege
citing "egregious, pervasive, and ongoing antisemitism."
One can only hope this will be the nail in the coffin on selective enforcement of codes of conduct.
BREAKING:
@Columbia
leadership decides to pick on its MOST-FAMOUS Jewish-Israeli professor, Shai Davidai.
Who unflinchingly stood up to Jew hatred, and supported Jewish students facing daily harassment, while administrators did NOTHING.
Our flabber is gasted.
📢📢 IMPORTANT UPDATE📢📢
In its continuous attempt to silence me for speaking up against antisemitism and pro-terror activity on campus,
@Columbia
university has launched a groundless investigation into my social media activity.
(Yes, my *private* social media activity here,
The donor revolt continues. When will
@Columbia
leadership wake up?
Are they waiting until they lose federal funding? Are sued into oblivion?
"Billionaire Mort Zuckerman Cuts Off Millions in Donations to Columbia, Citing Failure To Respond to Anti-Semitism on Campus"
via
"By dismissing 31 of the 46 cases against protesters who briefly occupied Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall in April, [
@ManhattanDA
] Bragg has done a disservice to the residents of New York City, who deserve a justice system that is willing to pursue cases even when they are
It’s past time to hold those engaged in these acts accountable
Hochul could appoint a special prosecutor to investigate hate crimes & enforce these laws as written
My op-ed
@jdforward
: Why weren’t
@Columbia
protesters brought to justice?
"The protester is a 40-year-old trust fund kid...who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $2.3 million. The man who tried to hold him back...has worked at Columbia-where the average janitor makes less than $19/hr- for 5 years."
The full story via
@TheFP
.
CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE: Committee investigation into campus antisemitism EXPANDS to 'Congress-wide probe';
@Columbia
leaders reminded that "federal funds" are at stake.
How many funds?
Columbia received $1.2B in gov't grants in 2023.
BREAKING! Tri-state CHRISTIANS and JEWS have announced a UNITY MARCH to tell Columbia that Jew hatred and support for TERROR organizations is NOT OK IN AMERICA.
Congrats
@Columbia
leaders on continuing to unite the country on YOUR TOTAL FAILURE TO DO YOUR JOBS
@PatriciaHeaton
"Every time you think they've gone the farthest, it just gets worse," one Jewish student at Columbia said of the university's leaders. "It feels hopeless."
Reporting via
@Columbia
student
@jessicaschwalb7
Jewish students at Columbia share their responses to administrators’ hostile and disparaging text, captured during panel on anti-Semitism, saying it’s clear why activists are emboldened — via
@jessicaschwalb7
@FreeBeacon
Dear every single super-qualified applicant who got rejected from Columbia in recent years:
We have no idea what the hell is going on in Admissions, but if this is what the university means by 'holistic review' we plan to get to the bottom of it.
So the press conference jihadist is a PhD student named Johannah King-Slutzky (really) and this is what she's working on. Dying. Absolutely dying. Beyond parody.
@TheBabylonBee
couldn't top this if they tried.
WATCH: Shameful and childish taunting of NYPD in front of
@Columbia
University gates. We're old enough to remember watching these brave men and women RUN TO THE TWIN TOWERS to claw through hell. Pretty sure they aren't worried about entitled, cosplaying students.
@NYPDnews
Right now: Columbia University campus. We call on President Shafik and the Board of Trustees to do their jobs and end this chaos. You testified less than 8 hours ago and the mayhem is continuing UNCHECKED.
#Antisemitism
Thank you Rabbi Yuda and Naomi Drizin of Chabad
@Columbia
University for always bringing light and joy to Jewish students. In times like this, your work means more than ever.
Rabbi Yuda and Naomi Drizin, who direct Chabad at Columbia University, brought a party bus to campus today, with blasting Jewish music and spirited chassidic dancing in a show of Jewish pride in the face of hatred.
Chairwoman
@virginiafoxx
is calling for the expulsion of students & termination of faculty at Columbia who are involved in the violent, antisemitic protests on campus.
Foxx slams President Shafik & Columbia's admin for not doing enough.
Full letter:
Welcome Omer, Dana and too many more to name here to the club of distinguished
@Columbia
and
@BarnardCollege
alumni.
What a profound reminder for all of us that despite everything, we have much to be proud of - and a great legacy worth fighting for.
Congratulations to
@Omer_Lubi
& Dana Cwaigrach for graduating from
@ColumbiaSIPA
.
Since Oct. 8 they have been voluntarily leading the Hostages Families Forum in NY.
We are in awe of the tremendous impact they made, while being full time students.
@ShanyGranot
#BringThemHome
REMINDER: Before 2023 there was no Columbia Jewish Alumni Association. We didn't need one. Everyone
@Columbia
felt welcome and united.
Groups like SJP and their faculty allies broke that sacred compact. They sow division and venerate hatred.
Whose values will we choose?
"To Jewish students, I know you feel abandoned, and you have been by administrators... but you are not alone"
- Musician and real-life rock star John Ondraysik.
Thank you John. We hope to bring your incredible voice to
@Columbia
campus very soon.
I have one questions for
@UCLAchancellor
Gene Block, the Board, and the majority of administrators/faculty at my alma mater
@UCLA
. I'm at your disposal to meet and discuss your answer. A message to the Jewish and non-Jewish students under siege across our nation as well.
Wishing a safe and peaceful Shabbat to students, faculty, Chabad & Hillel
@Columbia
and universities across N. America. We will never stop fighting for you to have the college experience you deserve!
And THANK YOU to THOUSANDS OF ALUMS who signed up to join us this past week!
Holy crap! Look at the SIZE of these UGLY tents put up by protesters
@Columbia
this weekend.
Trustees:
1. Are you familiar with the concept of BRAND DAMAGE?
2. Any chance today's news that Columbia lost a $260M donation is related it? 🤔
OVERNIGHT UPDATE: The Education Workforce Committee called on
@Columbia
University to EXPEL STUDENTS and TERMINATE FACULTY involved in VIOLENT, ANTISEMITIC PROTESTS. Slams leadership for NOT DOING ENOUGH.
Chairwoman
@virginiafoxx
is calling for the expulsion of students & termination of faculty at Columbia who are involved in the violent, antisemitic protests on campus.
Foxx slams President Shafik & Columbia's admin for not doing enough.
Full letter:
BREAKING: Education Workforce Committee calls on President Shafik to BRING IN LAW ENFORCEMENT, EXPEL STUDENTS, TERMINATE INVOLVED FACULTY.
@Columbia
University
Three actions Columbia President Shafik must take RIGHT NOW:
1. Order law enforcement to clear out the unlawful encampment of antisemitic protestors
2. Expel the students involved
3. Terminate the Columbia faculty involved
The time for talking is over.
"You are so dumb, how is this gonna stop me?" Pro-palestine protester taunts NYPD outside of Columbia University, "what are you gonna do? Arrest me? Ha" protester mocks NYPD as group gathered for 'Flood Columbia for GAZA' protest
Video by
@yyeeaahhhboiii2
Desk
@freedomnews
.tv to
University of Minnesota - police break up terror camp, arrest and charge students with trespassing.
The school is also banning the students from campus for one year.
THIS is how you do it.
Hey kids, your school may be too cowardly to hold you accountable for ignorance and bigotry, but the employment market is not.
"... prominent Wall Street law firm ...says that, for job applicants, participation in a protest — on campus or off — could be a DISQUALIFYING factor.
.
@Columbia
’s shocking lack of enforcement against antisemitism has fostered more Jewish hate on campus. I won’t allow university presidents like Minouche Shafik to hide from their responsibility.
How did college campuses like Columbia become the source of so much hate?
The FP’s
@Olivia_Reingold
travels to America’s most elite colleges to find the origins of campus antisemitism.
WSJ reporting that commencement has been cancelled.
Our school has become a national laughing stock under current leadership.
@Columbia
has abandoned both decency and common sense. This isn't just terrible for Jewish students, it's terrible for everyone
BREAKING: A discrete mathematics final scheduled for today was just postponed due to all the campus disturbance. These kids actually STUDIED and PREPARED for today and are pretty bummed.
@Columbia
University leaders: END THIS CHAOS NOW. cc:
@EdWorkforceCmte
4/4 In sum: Three of Columbia's most SENIOR leadership agree that trafficking in antisemitic tropes via private texts during an antisemitism panel is disgraceful conduct unbefitting our school. We FULLY agree.
This begs the question: What then, will the school do come fall? Will
Just imagine being a student, who just happens to be
@Columbia
at this particular moment, and arrogating to oneself the right to make demands that impact the legacy of tens of thousands of alums who came before you.
Then imagine being the adults who cave to this.
.
@BillAckman
could be doing literally anything with his time and influence, and he's using it to safeguard Jewish students and faculty at
@Harvard
and fight antisemitism on campuses everywhere. 👇👇👇
cc:
@HarvardJews
BREAKING:
@BarnardCollege
just cancelled the Senior Formal.
As a reminder this is the class who spent freshman year on Zoom. University leaders owe them better.
A ROUNDUP of the crazy
@Columbia
just this week...
1/7 Columbia SJP speaker irately declared that "Israel has no right to do anything about Hamas. "
Also bristled at the idea of condemning terrorists and butchers like Bashar Al Assad and, wait for it - Saddam Hussein.
(Wut?)
UPDATE: After yanking donations to
@Columbia
, Patriots owner and alum Robert Kraft pledged $1 million to Yeshiva University - to support transfer students.
In April Kraft said he was “no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff, and I am not comfortable
We got an INSANE number of alumni messages about this. Apparently,
@Columbia
leaders who attended an alumni reunion panel for Jews spent it... texting derisive comments about Jews.
The call is coming from inside the house.
NEW: In leaked text messages obtained by the Free Beacon, top Columbia administrators—including the dean of the college—mocked and dismissed concerns about anti-Semitism on campus and even used vomit emojis to refer to a Columbia rabbi’s op-ed.
Scoop w/
@elianayjohnson
.🧵
SATURDAY MORNING:
@nytimes
financial reporter
@andrewrsorkin
affirmed that
@Columbia
and other universities are sending a profoundly negative signal to the job market.
Maybe tenured profs like Joseph Massad are comfortable pissing off the job market, but we are not.
Controversial thought experiment: What would happen if companies told universities that they wouldn’t hire ANY of their students unless the schools take decisive action to end blatant antisemitism on campus. After all, no company would use an executive search firm with even one
ICYMI: Here is the joke of an email
@Columbia
leadership sent Friday night to students.
Exec summary: We are terrified of the students and radical faculty, and have no idea what to do besides pray for the end of the semester.
From the
@ColumbiaLaw
chapter of the
@NLGnews
:
"To the Jewish students, faculty, and trustees blocking divestment and urging the violent crackdowns on campus: you threaten everyone’s safety."
"No Jew is safe until everyone is safe, and no Jew is free until Palestine is free."
Alums were just notified that
@BarnardCollege
reunion has been cancelled.
Just think how differently this whole year could have gone if
@Columbia
had enforced its own rules from day 1.
Bless the good people who organized a trip to Disney for the Israeli kids-they were taken HOSTAGES from their beds, they’ve seen terrorists killing their families,friends and neighbours…
A long journey to heal such a trauma,but what a joy to see them happy…
🎥
@persianjewess
It's nearly midnight. The chaos
@Columbia
is so loud it can be heard as far south as 111th Street. This impacts EVERY student in EVERY dorm on campus.
It's time for Columbia's leadership to admit they are out of their depth and call in MASSIVE help.
@ManhattanDA
has dropped the charges against 31 of the 46 individuals arrested for occupying, vandalizing, and holding a staff member hostage in Hamilton Hall at
@Columbia
.
His reason? “Lack of evidence”.
If this isn’t clear cut evidence as to why NYC must reinstate and enforce
Heads up kids: Students playing at protesting today will get stultifying jobs writing garbage like this.
Students studying hard and acing finals this week will go on to challenging and creative jobs in tech, finance, industry and beyond.
Up to you kids, up to you.
@Columbia
Apr 17: After being confronted with Professor Abdou's record of anti-Western, antisemitic, "activist-anarchist"
rhetoric,
@Columbia
's President Shafik tells Congress "He will not work at Columbia again."
Jul 1:
@UnionSeminary
insta-grad students: let's hire THAT guy.
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏽♂️
Dr. Mohamed Abdou, a visiting professor in modern Arab studies who is openly pro-Hamas, was terminated by
@Columbia
as of yesterday 6/30.
Now students are petitioning to get him hired at Union Theological Seminary (UTS), a Columbia affiliate school.
Recall his “Islam and
True story
@ColumLRev
Students plan article.
Adult oversight Board w/DECADES of legal expertise reviews and says, 'You missed the mark on this one'
Students try to publish anyway
Board intervenes, 'Actually, we do have standards.'
Students, 'Waaaah! Strike!'
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏼♂️
@jessicaschwalb7
@Columbia
What utter rubbish.
Translation:
1. We have no method for or intention of enforcing civility, decency or respect for others on campus.
2. We will continue to pretend that these failures are unrelated to providing a learning environment free from harassment.
"Many students feel scared and isolated. They have been kept up at night and are struggling to keep up with their school work. The atmosphere is debilitating."
Thank you
@ChabadColumbia
for always being the light for students.
From
@ChabadColumbia
:
"Regarding campus events, the NYPD came on campus yesterday to clear out the original encampment. A new encampment has been established on a different lawn with students and faculty continuing to chant “Intifada, Intifada, globalize the Intifada”. The
SMACKDOWN!
Bribriejoy: How do you what that chant means... do you speak Arabic?
Columbia student: [Actually,] Yes, I do speak enough Arabic to know what that means.
Briahna: *
Zing!
Employers: Poised, smart, ready-to-work students can still be found
@Columbia
. Call us for recs!
WATCH as
@briebriejoy
twists the words and bullies a Jewish student
@columbia
.
@briebriejoy
then denies what the Jewish student is saying to such an extent that her co-anchor has to interject to correct her misstatements