It’s been a banner few days in academia, as universities on both coasts have demonstrated just how depraved, spoiled, and idiotic these Hamas LARPing fanatics truly are.

However, are the universities themselves finally getting a clue about the amount of backbone needed to deal with these jackholes? Or will academia cave in on itself yet again? While I would like to believe the former, it’s going to take a lot more evidence than two universities realizing that people need to be arrested if they break the laws and start vandalizing.

Let’s start at the University of Washington in Seattle. (Full disclosure, this is my alma mater, though I graduated from the university more than two decades ago.) On Monday night, the Hamas-loving crowd apparently did a crossover episode with Antifa (the Venn diagram of these groups is just one large circle), and decided to “occupy” the brand new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). Why? Well, they had a whole manifesto, and one of their demands was that the university cut ties with Boeing. Why? Boeing gave $10 million to build the IEB, but that was only a fraction of what taxpayers handed over ($50 million) to open this $100 million facility. And the terror LARPers say because Boeing builds F-15 fighter jets and Apache helicopers, along with missiles and bombs, which are sold to the IDF, this makes Boeing “complicit” in anything the IDF does. And because Boeing helps fund research at the University of Washington, this makes the university “complicit” as well. And lest you think that this was not rooted in anti-Semitism, let’s look at the opening paragraph of their manifesto.

We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student Intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th, which shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world. We respond to the call made by the Palestinian student movement in Gaza to “raise the pace and ceiling of your struggle and your honorable stances, quantitatively and qualitatively, against the institutions, corporations, and governments that participate in the slaughter of our children, our students, and our people. […] We call on you to besiege the […] buildings and offices of the corporations that finance the Zionist entity and arm its criminal army with all kinds of bombs and means of death and destruction.”

So they decided to take over the building, “rename” it after a Palestinian student that no one in the general public has never heard of, and start trashing the place. It took hours for the university police (yes, the University of Washington has its own police department, the campus is not under the jurisdiction of the Seattle Police Department), eventually backed up by the Seattle Police Department and the Washington State Patrol, to go and get the protesters out by force – long after the terror fanboys had started literal dumpster fires in the street that required the fire department to respond and put them out. In total, 34 people were arrested – and they were planning for a long-term occupation of the building.

Sources say a command center was set up with food, tools, and weapons. The far-left activists were planning to stay for days. pic.twitter.com/VoRieeux5D

— Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) May 6, 2025

Those arrested are in the process of being identified, but close to a third of those arrested are not students at the university. One is a public defender for the county court system. Another is apparently a nurse. Twenty-one people who were arrested were identified as students. While outgoing University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce has not stood up to these Hamas terror wannabes in the past, but between the examples being set by Columbia and Harvard, she took a much stronger stance against this building occupation and $1 worth of damage and vandalism than she did last year. And then the University of Washington actually did something absolutely necessary to the arrested students. They were all suspended and banned from campus.

The University of Washington is now under federal review by HHS, the Department of Education, and the General Services Administration. Clearly, the move to suspend and ban students from campus is designed to make an appeal to the Trump administration that their federal funding should not be pulled. Even if the suspensions are being done in an attempt to save themselves, it is still a stronger stance than the university had last year.

Speaking of not wanting to be Columbia, it turns out that even Columbia does not want to be THAT Columbia. Maybe academia really is learning something? After protesters stormed the Butler Library on Wednesday on Columbia’s campus – during finals – and started vandalizing, the terror darlings learned that they had f***ed around, and now they were going to find out. As in, they weren’t going to be leaving unless they produced some identification.

The masked @ColumbiaBDS protestors are now trying to leave the room they are in to march throughout the library, but Public Safety is not letting them exit without providing identification.

Accountability matters! pic.twitter.com/bhQ90tXU3F

— Eden Yadegar (@edenyadegar) May 7, 2025

Cue the howling. Help, help, they’re being repressed!

BREAKING: Columbia protesters occupying the library—while derailing classmates’ finals—have issued a self-important statement, refusing to show ID and insisting they won’t be “useless intellectuals,” all while making it harder for others to be any kind of intellectual at all. pic.twitter.com/gW5wk8f4sC

— Stu (@thestustustudio) May 7, 2025

After Columbia security guards were injured, interim President Claire Shipman called in the NYPD (setting a new land speed record for Columbia presidents calling in police). Eventually, more than 80 people were arrested and perp-walked right out of the library.

Around 80 agitators were taken into custody Wednesday evening, sources told The Post, as the Ivy League school faced another chaotic day on its Morningside Heights campus that officials said left a pair of school safety officers injured.

Video obtained by The Post showed a line of protesters led out in zip ties by NYPD cops and into waiting police buses.

The mob of demonstrators initially shoved past a security guard at the library’s front entrance, according to footage of the scene – disrupting students who were attempting to gear up for final exams.

Once inside, they draped large signs over bookshelves, one declaring the library a “liberated zone” and another bearing the name of Bassel al-Araj, a Palestinian activist killed by Israel Defense Forces in a 2017 raid in the West Bank — though they misspelled his first name as “Basel.”

The raucous demonstrators then donned keffiyeh headscarves and beat drums while clapping to chants of “free, free Palestine.”

Photos obtained by The Post show protesters defacing the library walls, hanging Palestinian flags and marking tables with colored tape. Other images show about half a dozen security guards forming a line opposite a much larger group of protesters.

Protesters scrawled “Columbia Will Burn” on a glass case inside the library, according to a photo shared online by a social media account run by Jewish and Israeli students at the school.

They sound lovely, don’t they? Secretary of State Marco Rubio would like to know if any of them are on student visas.

We are reviewing the visa status of the trespassers and vandals who took over Columbia University’s library.

Pro-Hamas thugs are no longer welcome in our great nation.

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) May 8, 2025

Welcome to the second part of the “find out”! With Columbia still internally shaky after the two-faced stance by former interim President Katrina Armstrong regarding the demands tied to federal funding by the Trump administration and her resignation, I’m betting current interim President Shipman has fewer qualms about disciplining students who were arrested. The fact that she called the NYPD in, instead of letting the protesters continue to do their thing, says a lot. We’ll have to see if any charges are brought, or if DA Alvin Bragg decides to don the same kid gloves he used before when handling Columbia protesters.

Is the corner finally being turned in academia? Neither the University of Washington nor Columbia should be fully trusted to do the right thing at this point – remember, their reactions to these destructive Hamas protests are very much dictated by the Trump administration’s actions. Still, it looks to be a positive step. Only time will tell if academia as a whole is truly taking the anti-Semitic cancer that has metastasized and spread for years seriously enough to engage in some proverbial radical surgery, followed by some chemotherapy.

Featured image: original Victory Girls art by Darleen Click