Columbia University — supposedly New York City’s most prestigious college — has descended into absolute chaos in the name of Palestinian liberation.
On Thursday, I watched as NYPD officers in riot gear cleared a makeshift “liberated zone” encampment where students had pitched tents to protest Columbia’s “complicity” in genocide.
Eventually, around 100 anti-Israel protesters were arrested — one for repeatedly hitting a cop, according to the NYPD.
The campus was closed to the public, but because I’m a part-time student at Columbia, I got a front-row seat to the madness.
On my way into the locked-down quad, I passed dozens of NYPD officers standing by as protesters unaffiliated with the university shouted “Intifada revolution!”
One young demonstrator was bickering with a cop about why her CUNY ID card didn’t get her past the security checkpoint.