Columbia University’s Students for Justice for Palestine group launched an anti-Israel newspaper called “Columbia Intifada.” The school has since denounced the paper for “discrimination and promoting violence or terror.”
The newspaper, which keeps its authors anonymous, refers to Jews as “colonizers” and “subjugators,” and includes articles titled “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood,” “The Myth of the Two-State Solution,” “Palestinian Prisoners,” and a “Guide to Wheatpasting” which instructs students on how to vandalize public property with anti-Israel propaganda.
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Anti-Israel student group Columbia University Apartheid Divest posted on Instagram that they distributed the first 1,000 copies of the paper at the Butler Library, with the caption “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
In a statement to the New York Post, Columbia University said, “Using the Columbia name for a publication that glorifies violence and makes individuals in our community feel targeted in any way is a breach of our values.”
“As we have said repeatedly, discrimination and promoting violence or terror is not acceptable and [is] antithetical to what our community stands for,” the school added. “We are investigating this incident through our applicable offices and policies.”
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While Columbia distanced itself from the paper, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) demanded the school “protect Jewish students on their campus” in a post on X — if they can’t, he says it should “lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked.”
He added that any students in the United States on a visa “engaged in an ‘intifada’ against American students of the Jewish faith” should be deported.
“Completely agree!” Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL) said in response to Lawler. “Let’s work together to make this happen.”
President-elect Trump has promised to remove funding and accreditation from schools found to be fostering antisemitism, and vowed to immediately deport protesters who come from other countries and “try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or antisemitism to our campuses.”
Earlier in the week, an anti-Israel magazine was banned at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after it featured criticisms of nonviolent protests in addition to violent imagery in support of a United States-designated terrorist group.
After former Columbia president Nemat Shafik testified before Congress about antisemitism on the Ivy League school’s campus in April in wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel, anti-Israel tensions escalated to a boiling point, with widespread allegations of antisemitic conduct on the New York City campus and beyond.
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In May, anti-Israel agitators forcibly took over Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, vandalized school property, and hung a banner calling for “intifada” which refers to violent uprisings against Israel, led by Hamas, that resulted in thousands of deaths on both sides.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Columbia University for comment.
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