What’s happening at Columbia?

[Jolly]

Hamas is a terrorist organization. While foreign students should have a level of free speech in this country, the protests at Columbia crossed the line quite some time ago. They've advocated terrorism, they have intimidated Jewish students and they have disrupted classes and student attendance. And they have damaged school property.

Time for some agitators to go.

[jon-nyc]

The devil is in the details. We don’t single out individuals for what the crowd did just because they’re on student visas so they’re easier to punish. We need to figure out what they actually did themselves.

[taiwan_girl]

I think that Jolly is correct.

In this case, they take a "high profile" person and make the example.

Pretty common to do this I think. (IRS going after celebrity tax cheater, etc.)

[jon-nyc]

Right but let’s make sure the tax cheating actually occurred and not just ‘he was a vocal member of a group that included tax cheats’.

[taiwan_girl]

@jon-nyc Agree, but in my admitted small research, he was one of the leaders that led the protest that damaged buildings, blocked other going in, etc.

[jon-nyc]

What crimes has he been charged with?

[jon-nyc]

I’m with the medical researchers, obviously.

[Mik]

Yeah, I'm with the medical researchers too, for obvious reasons. But I have no quarrel with deporting said individual.

[Jolly]

Could be getting close to a Time Of Choosing.

Is this student supporting terrorism and the eradication of Jews more important than the research the faculty is doing or their jobs?

Choose.

[taiwan_girl]

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-student-protests-suspended-d5a76974

Columbia University suspended 65 students involved in a pro-Palestinian protest Wednesday that took over part of the school’s main library.

The students won’t be able to take their final exams or enter campus except to access their dorms. Seniors won’t be able to participate in graduation ceremonies, a school official said.

Columbia barred 33 other people from campus, including students from other colleges and alumni who took part in the protest.

“When rules are violated and when our academic community is purposefully disrupted, that is a considered choice—one with real consequences,” a Columbia spokesperson said.