Is everyone ready for the sequel to the Columbia University pro-Hamas “student” protests?

Yes, the spoiled brats who are LARPing as Hamas Handmaids and hipster facists are back again, and this time they’re promising a “Summer of Disruption.” Their first goal was to point out Columbia University’s spineless administration by setting up a new tent encampment over alumni weekend. They succeeded, and the administration wimped out yet again.

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Campus police removed a few tents, but didn’t root out the infestation. And now these fools, once again, feel empowered to do whatever the hell they want.

As we begin our summer of disruption, we call on all students and the wider community to do the same. Every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. There is no business as usual during a genocide.

— Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (@ColumbiaSJP) June 3, 2024

The statement, posted to Instagram Sunday evening, includes a commitment from the group’s student leaders to “continue strategic, targeted attacks on all aspects of university life” as part of a “revolt for Rafah.”

“There will be no business as usual during a genocide. … Paralyze all aspects of the university until the genocide and our complicity in it stops,” the student group wrote. “As we continue our summer of disruption, we ask that every student, and our wider community, does the same. Use this time to agitate, educate, and escalate.”

“Until victory and with more installations to come, revolt for Rafah—long live the student intifada.”

The call to “escalate” came two days after members of the student group launched yet another anti-Israel encampment on the school’s main lawn. An entrance to the encampment was furnished with a sign declaring, “We’re back, bitches,” which greeted alumni as they returned to campus on Friday for class reunions. Student protesters also unveiled a cardboard missile plastered with photos of Columbia president Minouche Shafik and other university leaders, including David Greenwald, the co-chairman of the school’s board of trustees, and Abigail Black Elbaum, the vice chairwoman of the board.

President Shafik, for her part, displayed the same stunning leadership that she showed the last time. Which is to say, she wants a “dialogue” with the protesters.

Shafik responded by sending university officials into the encampment Friday night “to initiate discussions with student leaders,” a move she said was “consistent with our mission as an educational institution.”

“We welcome this effort to establish dialogue,” Shafik wrote in a Saturday email to students, which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Shafik pushed back four separate deadlines for students to clear the encampment, and when the negotiations did not yield an agreement, student protesters seized a university building. Shafik ultimately opted to call in the cops to clear the encampment and arrest the students who had occupied the building. She also canceled Columbia’s main graduation ceremony.

A Columbia spokeswoman told the Free Beacon the school is “moving forward with the disciplinary process for those students who were identified as part of the encampment in violation of university rules.”

Our readers will remember that Shafik just wanted to get out of the semester and done with graduation, hoping that the summer would let everything simmer down. Well, she ended up canceling graduation and just trying to get everyone off campus – while also opening an investigation into Professor Shai Davidai of the Columbia Business School. Readers will remember that Columbia blocked Davidai from going on campus by deactivating his ID because they were “concerned” about his safety. Well, now the administration is INVESTIGATING Davidai for calling these “student groups” what they are, “pro-terror,” and combing over his social media. Let’s just say that Columbia is digging themselves quite a hole here.

Hey @Columbia,

You know how you're investigating me for calling this and other organizations pro-terror organizations?

When I sue (and I will sue), this is going as evidence. https://t.co/j8nxA1w6Is

— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) May 30, 2024

I have said it before – lawsuits are the only way this ends now. Lawsuits, and loss of alumni donations and students. Columbia University, as a brand, has taken a huge hit to their prestige. That is solely the fault of the administration and their feckless President Shafik – who the university is currently defending against any allegation of plagiarism. How Shafik is currently hanging on to her job, I don’t know, especially after her performance before Congress. My guess is that she’s only still in her job because no one else wants it. Being a university president these days is very hard when you have no spine and no guiding set of principles. We have seen this pattern repeated at multiple universities across the country, with many college presidents unwilling to be “the bad guy” and enforce law and order on their campuses.

Which leads us back to the tepid response to this new Columbia encampment. The protesters left on Sunday evening once alumni weekend was over, but the university’s administration has been warned – this pro-Hamas movement on campus, which is praised by both Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran and al-Qaeda, will be back to “disrupt” the summer at Columbia, and at other campuses. This will not end until unversity administrators grow a pair, or are sued into oblivion. And I’m betting that the latter happens well before the former.

Featured image: protest at the gate of Columbia University on April 22, 2024, by SWinxy via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)