Columbia literature or Nazi propaganda? AIM returns to Columbia
January 22, 2025
Columbia University has begun the spring semester, and the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protesters have returned. Dozens of protesters have gathered around the university’s gates, and a group of fully masked students disrupted a History of Modern Israel class.
Protesters published flyers reading “Burn Zionism to the ground” and threw them at students during that class, which is taught by an Israeli professor.
“The enemy will not see tomorrow”
“Burn Zionism to the ground”
“Crush Zionism”These were the flyers thrown at us by hostile protestors in @shilonavi History of Modern Israel class today @Columbia pic.twitter.com/vNwPY6PrmQ
— Elisha (Lishi) Baker (@LishiBaker) January 21, 2025
They are physically preventing a class from being taught because they hate Israel, and aiming to intimidate students.
For the people still insisting that the protests at @Columbia are “pro-peace”, note that there currently is a ceasefire. These protests are anything but peaceful. They are pro-violence, glorify terror, and spread antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/HHJOGmKrjL
— Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students ✡️🇮🇱 (@CUJewsIsraelis) January 21, 2025
Accuracy in Media has reported multiple times on the antisemitism that is rampant in these protests. Columbia has shown again and again that it will not hold these protesters accountable, even when Jewish students are threatened on campus.
AIM is returning to the Columbia campus to demand accountability.
Six U.S. House committees released a report in December about their findings on antisemitism on college campuses across the country. The report said that Columbia “stands out for its egregious failure to combat antisemitism on its campus,” and that it “explicitly acknowledged that its campus became a hostile environment in violation of Title VI.”
In response, Columbia Interim President Katrina Armstrong promised to address the concerns detailed in this investigation, “including by addressing antisemitism and discrimination, and strengthening and clarifying our disciplinary processes.”
Armstrong and the Columbia administration, on the first day of spring semester, have already failed their Jewish students.
Columbia is “one of three institutions funded by the NIH that are under investigation for incidents of antisemitism.” The Committee on Education and the Workforce has “recommended that the executive branch ‘aggressively’ enforce Title VI violations and issue fines to universities who do not comply with the Clery Act, which requires that colleges and universities disclose campus crime statistics.”
Armstrong is failing Columbia. The federal government provided $1.2 billion to Columbia in 2023. It’s time for the executive branch to enforce Title VI violations as recommended and withdraw funding from Columbia.
Take action now: Visit ColumbiaHatesJews.com to send a message to the Columbia Board of Trustees.