2024-05-25 Fifth Column
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Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Columbia
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[CityJournal] The images of the recent protests at Columbia University have grabbed the attention of the American public: students chanting for a Palestinian state, "from the river to the sea"; activists setting up a mass tent encampment on the campus lawn; masked occupiers seizing control of Hamilton Hall. For some, it was a sign that ancient anti-Semitism had established itself in the heart of the Ivy League. For others, it was déjà vu of 1968, when mass demonstrations last roiled campus.
After weeks of rising tensions, Columbia president Minouche Shafik resolved the immediate conflict by summoning the New York City Police Department, which swiftly disbanded anti-Israel student encampments, removed the occupiers of Hamilton Hall, and arrested more than 100 students, who were subsequently suspended.
President Shafik feigned surprise. In a statement to students, she expressed "deep sadness" about the campus chaos. But to anyone who has observed Columbia in recent decades, the upheaval should not come as a surprise. Behind the images of campus protests lies a deeper, more troubling story: the ideological capture of the university, which inexorably drove Columbia toward this moment. Columbia for decades has cultivated the precise conditions that allowed the pro-Hamas protests to flourish. The university built massive departments to advance "postcolonialism," spent hundreds of millions of dollars on "diversity, equity, and inclusion," and glorified New Left—style student activism as the telos of university life.
These are not anti-Israeli protests. Not even anti-American protests. IMO, what we've been seeing in the last few years is Nihilism pure and simple. They will run wild at any excuse - because they want to run wild. And they want to run wild because, deep down inside, they know they're second rate.
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