Maelstrom: Hooded figures break into Columbia buildings, take hostages; UCLA protestors block Jewish students from classes

It's getting to be a maelstrom out there, with weak university responses emboldening pro-Hamas campus protestors.

Columbia University bought itself a boatload of trouble by ignoring its own deadline yesterday to make protestors clear out, although suspension notices were reportedly issued to some.

Now pro-Hamas protestors are taking over school buildings and taking hostages. Last night, hooded men crawled up the university building known as John Jay Hall where the administrators work and got out hammers to smash glass to break into the building, barricading it with junked furniture, and taking three maintenance workers in the building hostage. And like the Munich Olympics terrorists of 1972, they put on their black masked skinsuit ensembles and crawled up into a freshman student dorm full of 18 year olds called Hamilton Hall and took it over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They're also reportedly physically assaulting and beating up Jewish students now.

And the faculty have joined, creating a new problem:

 

 

And in the swamp style, a 'consultant' and NGOs have crawled out of the woodwork:

 

 

 

 

And just to leave the point clear, they haven't actually abandoned their smelly encampments on the school lawn, either. That's a standing rebuke of the administration that told them to clear out or else. Well, they're still there. Graduation is a week away and it takes at least a week for the university to set up for the big ceremony on that same lawn. The university is now the fly caught in the spider's web, unable to move, just waiting to get its blood drained from these predators with unreasonable demands claiming to be 'peaceful protestors.'

Meanwhile, at UCLA, the weak, irresolute response from its administration has now allowed thugs in black to block Jewish students from attending their own classes and studying in their own library. The beasts have taken over, and the university says it intends to do nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nor is that administration willing to help its own students:

 

 

It's definitely an escalation, and coming at the same time, happening at the most prestigious universities in the largest cities in the U.S. has the feel of a directive given.

If this were a peaceful protest, as these university leaders are treating it, the protestors would have made their point and gone home. But it's not. It's a coercive thug action, as if might makes right, and never mind about the debate of ideas that a university is supposed to be about. The Columbia president is going full 'Clark Kerr' and allowing protestors to crawl all over her. Claudine Gay must be breathing a sigh of relief that at least one university president at these antisemitism-plagued schools is doing worse than she is. The Columbia president, Minouche Shafik, has pleaded, pleaded, with the protestors to leave the premises because graduation is coming up and the kids graduating had already been denied their high school graduations due to COVID lockdowns.

They say they'll clear out the day before the graduation, meaning, Columbia is taking their word for it and good luck if they change their minds. They already know that there are no consequences for them for failing to heed Columbia deadlines:

 

 

It's like the student protests of the 1960s are part of the script, where the punks took over the university president's office, set fires, and held the president hostage. The leader of that group, Mark Rudd, did get expelled from the school, but there is no such talk of it now, and students protesting are calling for full amnesty for their disruptions. The university, thus far, has been unwilling to act, despite having called the cops to the scene, to, what, twiddle their thumbs? It's the weakest response from a university yet, which is why the thugs are taking over.

What a mess they've got now, both Columbia and UCLA, as well as a host of other campuses that have failed to act resolutely against disruptive protestors, as Florida's universities have. With no sign of any of it really ending, all we can look forward to now is for it to get worse. What a sorry ending they're all facing.

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