Remote learning is back, as Columbia University has ceded its campus to the antisemites.
No, I am not kidding. Columbia has fallen. Hamasholes now occupy the campus, and the administration appears to have conceded the campus to them.
MONDAY MORNING:
New “Gaza Solidarity Encampments” erected at Yale, NYU, University of Michigan as $90K/year Columbia University goes fully remote due to ongoing Palestine Liberation protests and concern for student safety. https://t.co/B35hGyDR2A
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) April 22, 2024
I guess this is what decolonization looks like. Decolonize Columbia! Can we have our degrees now and six-figure jobs?
NEW YORK — Columbia University switched to remote learning Monday, as pro-Palestinian protests are expected to enter their sixth day on the school’s campus in New York City.
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik announced classes would be held virtually “to deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps.” The university initially said it would offer a remote learning option, but then made it mandatory.
Barricades remain in place outside the school gates, and CBS New York has learned additional security guards will be on patrol, along with enhanced ID-checks at entrances.
“Faculty and staff who can work remotely should do so; essential personnel should report to work according to university policy,” the president’s statement continued. “Our preference is that students who do not live on campus will not come to campus.”
Shafik said she wants to sit down, talk and even “argue” to come up with a compromise to the tensions on campus, adding a group of deans and administrators will help facilitate those conversations in the coming days.
So far, students who live on campus will not become homeless and hungry, as Ilhan Omar’s daughter has claimed she has become since being suspended from Columbia. Of course, some fraction of those students have chosen a new home on the campus quad, living in tents and demanding that Columbia somehow stop the war in Gaza. They are probably having Uber Eats deliver them food as they protest.
As pro-H@mas Columbia protestors yell at Jewish students:
“Never forget the 7th of October. That will happen not one more time, not five more times, not 10…100…The 7th of October is going to be every day for you.”
Our city accountant is still pandering for them👇🏻
🎥@jonasydu https://t.co/olWSmrQrDs pic.twitter.com/B8ES8XFXMk— Manhattan Mingle (@ManhattanMingle) April 19, 2024
Unfortunately, the administration at Columbia has something of a point. The campus has become unsafe for Jews, with students calling for their exclusion, chasing them off campus, and even calling for their deaths. If I were a Jewish student I would likely want to stay away.
As pro-H@mas Columbia protestors yell at Jewish students:
“Never forget the 7th of October. That will happen not one more time, not five more times, not 10…100…The 7th of October is going to be every day for you.”
Our city accountant is still pandering for them👇🏻
🎥@jonasydu https://t.co/olWSmrQrDs pic.twitter.com/B8ES8XFXMk— Manhattan Mingle (@ManhattanMingle) April 19, 2024
A Rabbi at the school has told Jewish students to leave as the university cannot guarantee their safety. At Yale, a Jewish student was sent to the hospital after he was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag. Taking a brave stand is one thing, but having your eye poked out is probably not worth the minor moral victory.
Democrats are responsible for this. It won’t be long before this turns into attacks. https://t.co/Xvc4ghPK1A
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 22, 2024
This is, as I say, what decolonization looks like. Decolonize Columbia!
They threw bottles at Jews, at Yale a girl was stabbed in the eye with a flag, several Israelis were assaulted in NYC.
Anyone who got suckered into thinking this was about free speech should acknowledge how wrong they were. As I wrote *four months ago*: https://t.co/kbys9WPKQg https://t.co/nQxWXS5Dcz
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) April 21, 2024
The thing is, remote learning is hardly the same thing as in-person classes, and Columbia ceding its campus to the radicals is, among other things, cheating every student out of the education they are paying nearly $100,000/year to get.
Not that this matters, of course, because the value of a Columbia degree is more in prestige than the education, and by ceding the campus, Columbia has devalued that as well. No employer with an ounce of sense would hire one of these radicals.
Hamas terror literature being distributed at Michigan today: pic.twitter.com/raUIXTqe7D
— @amuse (@amuse) April 22, 2024
Anybody who argues that the students are merely exercising their free speech rights is simply insane. Riots, occupations, closing down streets without permits, and intimidation are not speech. They have more in common with Kristallnacht than Martin Luther King’s speech on the National Mall. And everybody knows that.
For over a decade, we have been lectured about “safe spaces,” which is code for oppressive speech codes and censorship.
Now we see what “safety” really means: a takeover that serves only the Left. We all knew it; now everybody can see it.
Having covered Yale in 2015, when the social justice-coded position was that a polite email about Halloween costumes ruined the safe space students needed to learn, it’s staggering to see the scenes like this from left-activists (not sure if they are students or not), and no… https://t.co/QLfshpgDxN
— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) April 21, 2024
Our cultural elite has fostered this behavior, believing it would forever be directed at the Right. They loved it. They encouraged it. They called protesters camping out and using bullhorns at night in front of Supreme Court Justice’s houses wonderful.
Now, they are facing the monster they created.
For a second, imagine that black students at Columbia were taunted with chants of “Go back to Africa.”
Or imagine that a gay student at Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the eye with a flagpole.
Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that they…
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) April 22, 2024
Similar encampments are popping up on college campuses across America, to which I say, “Good.” Not because I approve of the content, of course, but because these universities created this and should face the consequences.
We have had to for years.