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On Tuesday night, hundreds of New York City Police Department officers from specialized units rolled with quiet orderliness onto the campuses of Columbia University and City College. Within a few hours, they had arrested hundreds of students who had taken over campus property, barricaded buildings, destroyed furniture and windows, and allegedly even taken custodial staff hostage. Social media soon flooded with videos capturing a rainbow coalition of twentysomethings in crop tops, piercings, and Kurt Cobain-era jeans, heads swaddled with Arab keffiyehs in solidarity with the fundamentalist Islamic forces that rule Palestinian Gaza. They shouted for violent uprising—“intifada!”—and then whined, went...

Caesar was quoting from a Greek comedy when he declared that the die was cast, but our present path and its subsequent outcome is no comedy. Time is running out for America to act. Strong believers and true disciples being the exception, most Americans think if they attend a church once in a while and drop a dollar in the plate, they feel assured that they have done God a favor. Since, Biblical prophecy is pre-written history, you will have done no one a favor by reading or ignoring these warnings. You can click off the page or re-publish it...

“Resentful childless harpies unconsciously longing for domination. Why else worship at the altar of Hamas? Why else would it be so overwhelmingly female?” — Dr. Jordan Peterson. Wasn’t it cute how the youngsters who “occupied” Columbia U’s Hamilton Hall — and were busy smashing things up inside — demanded restaurant-grade meals sent in to avert “starvation and dehydration” amongst their dauntless ranks? You could imagine a colossal mommy breast with three hundred nipples descending from the sky over upper Manhattan to nourish them back to action. “Feed me. . . !” It turns out, actually, that at least half the...

As we noted earlier, though the Columbia University pro-Hamas encampment and Hamilton Hall occupation have both been cleared, it's pretty evident the lunatics are still running the asylum there, as evidenced by a plea from the Columbia Law Review student editors for law school administrators to "cancel exams and give passing grades for their work throughout the semester."The reasons cited? "The violence we witnessed last night has irrevocably shaken many of us... we also know this to be the same for a majority of our classmates."READ: Jonathan Turley Lays Some Reality on New Laughable Demand From Columbia Law StudentsFor those...

The student editors of the Columbia Law Review issued a statement on Wednesday urging Columbia Law School to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the "violence" had left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus." The statement, which represents the majority opinion of the editorial board and was endorsed by five other law journals, including the Columbia Human Rights Law Review & A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual, accused the police of "brutalizing" students—though no major injuries have been reported—and claimed that canceling exams was a "proportionate response" to the "distress our...

The student editors of the Columbia Law Review issued a statement on Wednesday urging Columbia Law School to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the "violence" had left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus." The statement, which represents the majority opinion of the editorial board and was endorsed by five other law journals, including the Columbia Human Rights Law Review & A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual, accused the police of "brutalizing" students—though no major injuries have been reported—and claimed that canceling exams was a "proportionate response" to the "distress our...

NYC Mayor and NYPD PC have released new information showing that approximately 48% of individuals arrested on Tuesday evening at Columbia and City College NY protests were unaffiliated with the schools.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) sounds the alarm that the roughly 300 pro-Hamas protestors arrested by NYPD Tuesday night at Columbia University and City College of New York may not be students— but rather part of radical terrorist organizations. Adams said that when he became aware that the majority of the pro-terrorism protestors weren’t students but professional agitators, he promised to fight for the American “way of life” as the demonstrators continued to harass Jewish communities. “Once I became aware of the outside agitators who were part of this operation, as Columbia mentioned in their letter and their...

Columbia University and other private colleges should cough up and help foot the bill for the NYPD having to swarm the Ivy League campus and crackdown on pro-terror protests, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday. Hizzoner addressed the cost to Big Apple taxpayers after cops were finally called in to help oust a destructive mob that had illegally taken over Columbia’s Hamilton Hall academic building late Tuesday and to clear out an encampment on the school’s iconic lawn. “We believe that they, too, should contribute to the cost,” the mayor told FOX5 when asked whether the Ivy League school should have...

A pro-Hamas activist who spoke at Columbia despite being banned in Germany for supporting terror is a communist from New Jersey who openly supports the October 7 massacre of Israelis. Charlotte Kates, a major figure in the pro-Palestine movement in colleges for over two decades, has been a constant presence at anti-Israel encampment at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The New Jersey native is the international coordinator of Samidoun Prisoners Solidarity Network, a group with ties to the PFLP that is listed in Israel as a terror group and banned in Germany as such. Kates, a lawyer, was...

Dramatic photos show the massive tent city set up by anti-Israel protesters on Columbia University’s iconic lawn completely cleared Wednesday after police stormed the campus and arrested members of a pro-terror mob. Not a single tent was left standing on the Manhattan Ivy League school’s West Lawn next to Butler Library in the wake of the NYPD’s response to a violent occupation of nearby Hamilton Hall Tuesday night, photos reveal. Instead of rows of tents, grass from the university’s once-green lawn could be seen checkered with faded yellowish rectangles where the structures had been pitched. Trampled brown grass could be...

Columbia University finally called in the cops to deal with its antisemitic protestors occupying a university building after a burglary-style break-in, and stinking up the campus lawn with an illegal campout.And what a bunch of screaming, squealing, bawling, toddlers they had on their hands to arrest and haul off:#BREAKING MASS ARRESTS as NYPD pour hundreds of cops inside Columbia University, Raiding Encampment Video by Olga Fe Desk@freedomnews.tv to license pic.twitter.com/YnS6v4V00p — Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) May 1, 2024 Look at them taking dives and pretending to be ‘injured’ for resisting arrest. Hear the squalling and screeching. Look at the stamping...

The Five discuss what is happening on Columbia University. The Judge makes some very good points regarding the foreign students and how this needs to be handled. BUT, pay particular attention at the 9:08 mark and what the student body make up is. Listen carefully to the stat! This is not professional agitators folks. This is dangerous stuff happening, these non-resident aliens need to be removed. These college campuses need to be held to account for these middle east students as well as the Chinese students enrolled.

Around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Columbia University students calling for their school’s divestment from Israel escalated their protest by taking it indoors. After nearly two weeks in an encampment on the Ivy’s main lawn, demonstrators forced their way into a nearby academic building, Hamilton Hall, and set up barricades to block the police from the entrance. After evicting two university facility workers, students hung a banner reading “Student Intifada” from the second floor of the hall. In response, Columbia threatened to expel students occupying the building, while the White House condemned the practice of “forcibly taking over buildings.” As students...

Approximately 300 were arrested overnight at CCNY and Columbia after the NYPD was called on to clear out anti-Israel protesters who had been occupying the campuses. Police officers of the New York Police Department have restored order on the CUNY City College of New York campus after it had been overrun by anti-Israel protesters. CUNY officials said they asked the New York Police Department for assistance in clearing protesters, including a "large crowd" of people who had marched from Columbia University to City College. Approximately 300 were arrested overnight at CCNY and Columbia after the NYPD was called on to...

For a fleeting moment this spring, New York City actually feels like that famous 1976 Saul Steinberg cover for the New Yorker—the one that captures the now-faded solipsistic conviction of the city’s residents that nothing of significance happens beyond their little island. “View of the World From 9th Avenue” looks out west at a flat, anonymous planet that exists unknown across the Hudson River, the vast empty plains beyond “Jersey” dotted with little settlements like Kansas City and Chicago, as the alien nation beyond the metropolis diminishes with perspective toward a Pacific Ocean narrower than the three blocks between the...

Columbia University protesters smashed windows, upended furniture and caused damage throughout Hamilton Hall during the occupation before police stormed the campus and arrested more than 100 protestors Tuesday night. Around 40 protesters were arrested on the first floor of the building after police swooped just after 9pm ending the pro-Palestine encampment that stretched on for nearly two weeks and included students taking over the hall. Pictures and video taken of the aftermath show the hall's trashed interior strewn with activists' belongings.

A clueless Columbia University protester who once worked for a lefty consulting firm hired by Bill de Blasio demanded Tuesday that the school help get “basic humanitarian aid” such as food and water to the anti-Israel rioters illegally occupying a campus building. “Like, could people please have a glass of water?’’ the young woman told reporters outside Hamilton Hall, which a defiant mob of pro-terror protesters violently stormed early Tuesday and took over. “Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you? If the answer is no, then you...

Video released by NYPD shows 63-year-old Lisa Fithian, who has a long history of participating in protests like Occupy Wall Street [cut] Fithian is a professional "protest consultant" who has been arrested over 80 times, Laura Ingraham of "The Ingraham Angle" said on her show Tuesday night. Fithian has reportedly participated in protests on climate change, Occupy Wall Street, and now, the Free Palestine movement. After midnight Tuesday, Fithian was seen on video instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators as they took over an academic building at Columbia University.

One of the problems with the campus radicals and useful idiots is that they don't really live in reality. They talk about an occupation when there is no occupation of Gaza by Israel. They talk about a genocide when there is no genocide by Israel. There is a genocide being attempted by Hamas against Israel, but the radicals and idiots seem to refuse delivery on that reality. Fox's Lawrence Jones asked one of their people hawking propaganda material on the street outside of Columbia University some important questions, and her responses show how empty their positions truly are. He asked...