Shai Davidai
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To all the journalists covering President Shafik's email to
@BarnardCollege
and
@Columbia
's community this morning, take note:
Not a single word about Jewish students, faculty, or staff.
Not a single word about Israeli students, faculty, or staff.
Jews are invisible at
President Shafik emailed members of
@BarnardCollege
and
@Columbia
’s community this morning.
In the email, Shafik suggests that the takeover of Hamilton Hall is what finally got her to summon the NYPD to clear the campus from the pro-Hamas mob.
In our view, the vandalism and
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Earlier today,
@Columbia
University refused to let me onto campus.
Why? Because they cannot protect my safety as a Jewish professor.
This is 1938.
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I've seen and shared many disturbing videos over the past six months, but I've never seen anything like this.
These were the sights today in New York City. Not in Rafah. Not in Kabul. In New York City.
This is domestic terrorism.
(a thread)
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I am an assistant professor at Columbia Business School. I am a father, a husband, an uncle, and a son. I am a forty-year-old man, and last week I found myself crying in front of a group of complete strangers.
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I want to send a public message to Mr. Cas Holloway, the COO of
@Columbia
University:
Cas, you're are really great guy. I know it. I saw it in your eyes today. This is why know that, deep-down, you know I'm right. You may not like my style, but I know you agree with almost
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This what's happening at
@Columbia
right now.
I know it's confusing, so let me spell it out for you:
(a) Terrorism is an ideology.
(b) They are openly supporting terror.
(c) They are terrorists.
Terrorists have taken over Columbia University.
The government needs to take
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To all the journalists who are covering what's happening at
@Columbia
.
I got a tip that the administration is negotiating with the leaders of the pro-terror organization.
The same organization whose members called Hamas to kill Jewish students.
If this is true, this is huge.…
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Many people are wondering about what’s happening on U.S. campuses.
While I can’t speak about all other college campuses, I can definitely give you an insider’s view about
@Columbia
University.
(this thread may be a bit long, but trust me: it's worth it)
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To all the journalists:
I promise, I will try to get back to each and every one of you.
In the meantime, I want you to consider this:
To the best of my knowledge, the last time that a professor was denied access to their own university for being Jewish was Nazi Germany.
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This is happening at
@Columbia
right now.
A pro-Hamas protestor calling on the Al-Qasam brigade (the military wing of Hamas) to kill Jewish students.
If you are not enraged by this, you can GO FUCK YOURSELF.
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It doesn't matter if you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or an Atheist.
It doesn't matter if you're a liberal or a conservative.
It doesn't matter if you support Biden or Trump.
If you are an American, this should trouble you.
This is a threat to America.
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Protestors waving the yellow and green Hezbollah flag.
Hezbollah is an Iranian-backed foreign terrorist organization based in Lebanon.
And now in New York City.
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Protestor calling "Death to America."
This is domestic terrorism.
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I just send this message to the leadership at
@Columbia
University.
I am going to be on campus Monday morning and I am requesting police escort.
Police escort for simply going to my own place of work.
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A protestor wearing the Hamas green headband - the same one worn by Hamas terrorists during the October 7th Massacre.
Hamas is an Iranian-backed foreign terrorist organization based in Gaza and the West Bank.
And now in New York City.
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An Jewish American student from
@Columbia
showed up to counterprotest.
They burnt his U.S. flag, lit his shirt on fire, and shouted "Death to America"
No arrests were made.
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U.S. campuses have been terrorized by pro-Hamas protests, primarily led by Students for ‘Justice’ in Palestine.
To understand these protests, one must look at who’s behind this organization.
Three words: Follow the money.
(Sorry for the long thread. I promise: it’s worth it)
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I am calling it.
It's time for EVERYONE in the antisemitism task force at
@Columbia
to resign RIGHT NOW.
Every extra minute that you don't do so is an extra minute of you being an accomplice.
Retweet if you agree.
Protestors at Columbia are saying all classes at the university will have a virtual option beginning tomorrow.
They’re claiming it as a victory, but it’s because Jewish students feel unsafe and requested it.
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If you take one thing away from this, then let this be it: Within Our Lifetime - the organization behind these protests - should be declared a Domestic Terrorist Organization.
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Yoseph Haddad (
@YosephHaddad
) is an *Arab* Israeli journalist who believes in co-existence.
He just got assaulted outside of
@Columbia
.
If the
@NYPD
can't figure this out, it's time to bring in the
@USNationalGuard
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📢📢 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT📢📢
@Columbia
has opened an investigation into my advocacy for the Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, and staff at the university.
This is a clear act of retaliation and an attempt to silence me.
If you want to know more, read my statement below
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This guy's father in law plead guilty to fundraising for Hamas. Seriously. Google it.
He is a professor at
@Georgetown
.
He is teaching Americans who are going into the Foreign Service at
@georgetownsfs
.
Sorry, I don't take criticism from terrorists.
Massive asshole
@ShaiDavidai
wants his own students, who he straight up says are “terrorists,” to face the “consequences” that “military-age” adults like them know about. If I were being charitable I’d assume he means being arrested? But considering he’s an unhinged extremist…
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This may be too vulnerable of me, but I need really your help.
The internet mob either forgot that I'm a human being or they just don't care.
Either way, their personal attacks are too much for me.
I can't do this on my own.
Please have my back.
Don't let them silence me.
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Protestor praising the burning of the American flag and saying that Bin Laden "did what he had to do"
This is domestic terrorism.
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I don’t think I can put into words how much it pains me that Columbia University – my own employer - won’t condemn Hamas’ crimes against humanity.
I am not angry. I feel pain.
I feel pain because condemning crimes against humanity seems like such a no brainer.
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I apologize for my language in advance, but this is something we can't keep in anymore.
The Presidents of
@Columbia
University and
@BarnardCollege
don't give a fuck about their Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, or staff.
(a short thread to explain this strong statement)
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The pro-terror organizations at
@Columbia
are getting scared.
In an effort to silence me, they are now petitioning that I be "removed from teaching and contact with students."
A message to my students: don't worry. Next Tuesday I *will* be in class
We will not be silenced.
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The videos speak for themselves:
@Columbia
University is either unwilling or unable to protect its Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, and staff
I personally didn't feel safe going to campus today.
To understand why, see below.
(A thread of with alarming videos)
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Right now at
@Columbia
: An UNAUTHORIZED pro-Hamas protest
By refusing to hold the organizers accountable, Columbia is sending a big fuck you to every Jewish and Israeli student, faculty, or staff.
The President of Columbia needs to be held accountable.
(thread w/ videos)
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Protestor's response to the burning of the American flag:
"Burn it down again and again and again"
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To the silent majority:
I think we need to talk about your silence.
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"Intifada, intifada, long live the intifada!"
@Columbia
has two choices:
(1) Expel organizations that explicitly call for violence against Jews and Israelis
(2) Show the world it can't/won't enforce its own rules (and face legal consequences for unequal enforcement)
Friday:
@Columbia
University announces that chants understood as a call for genocide are against school policy.
Today, at
@BarnardCollege
: Student organizations calling "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
@Columbia
: What do you plan to do about this?
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I will always apologize for my mistakes.
I will always apologize for my moral failures.
But I will never apologize for standing up for myself.
I will *never* apologize for my existence.
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Right now, outside
@Columbia
University:
A bigoted, antisemitic, hate-filled protest against Israel right to exist
(a thread with pictures and videos)
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For months, I've been speaking out against
@Columbia
's refusal to deal with pro-terror students organizations on campus.
I thought I've seen it all.
I was wrong.
(a short thread)
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You know, lets take off the gloves:
Terrorism is an ideology.
They are openly supporting terror.
They are terrorists.
These are not kids. These are adults.
People their age have jobs and serve in the military. People their age know what consequences mean.
It's time for…
BREAKING: This is a late night speech from Tai at Columbia's Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
"Let it be known that it was the Al-Aqsa Flood that put the Global Intifada back on the table again. And it is the sacrificial spirit of the Palestinian Freedom Fighters that will guide…
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but antisemitism has hit a new low at
@Columbia
.
(a slightly long thread, but trust me - it's worth it)
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Cas Holloway's (the COO of the University) response to my request for public safety is nothing more than a continuation of six months of gaslighting and degrading the Jewish community of
@Columbia
.
The terrorists can do whatever they want but the Jews need to be closed off in a…
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A brave and honorable member of the Board of Columbia Business School resigns in response to the university's refusal to condemn Hamas' crimes against humanity and its support of pro-Hamas organizations on campus.
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I'm being publicly attacked by Jonathan Brown - a
@Georgetown
Professor of Islamic Studies at the school of Foreign Services (
@georgetownsfs
).
Just so you know, this guys' father in law *plead guilty* for providing material support to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (!).
He has…
So it turns out that serial whiner, baby-monitor needer and diaper-wearer
@ShaiDavidai
is not just a throw-back to the 2000s WoT “call the fbi on people engaged in protected speech,” he’s also a boring old Islamophobe who doesn’t respect the Constitutional right to free exercise…
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Hey,
@IlhanMN
,
Moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans both know that you're a radical bigot who supports terrorism.
By going after me, you showed the world I'm on the right side of history.
Thank you.
BTW - You mispronounced my name.
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Columbia is currently an unsafe place for me.
It's also a place a pro-Hamas terror organization keeps protestors in fences and brainwashes them about me.
Just watch the video.
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But if my research into behavioral psychology has taught me anything, it’s that looking back on my life, I am more likely to regret not taking a stance.
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Every journalist needs to see this.
Today, at
@Columbia
University
1. An UNAUTHORIZED EVENT took place
2. Protestors chanted CALLS FOR VIOLENCE AND GENOCIDE of the Jews
3. SJP and JVP (who hosted the event) BROKE THE RULES OF THEIR SUSPENSION.
***
It's time for expulsions.
"Intifada, intifada, long live the intifada!"
@Columbia
has two choices:
(1) Expel organizations that explicitly call for violence against Jews and Israelis
(2) Show the world it can't/won't enforce its own rules (and face legal consequences for unequal enforcement)
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For three months, I've raised the alarm about pro-terror organizations on U.S. campuses.
I've said this from the very beginning: this isn't about Israel or Palestine.
This is about supporting terrorism.
Now the SJP is going after the U.S.
(a long but informative thread)
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If you're still wondering whether Students for 'Justice' in Palestine (SJP) supports and sympathizes with terror, this short thread is for you.
To put it mildly, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
(again, apologies for a long but hopefully helpful thread)
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I am a zionist, because I believe that Jews have a right to exist.
My zionism doesn't make me superior nor inferior to others.
My zionism runs on love, not hate.
I am a zionist professor at
@Columbia_Biz
and I will teach anyone who wants to learn.
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Within Our Lifetime is the organization behind these protests.
To learn more about them, see this thread:
So, what is this organization called Within Our Lifetime?
In February 2018, the New York City chapter of Students for ‘Justice’ in Palestine was renamed Within Our Lifetime.
*WOL is basically SJP, re-branded.*
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It's totally fine when the pro-Hamas mob perpetuates lies about me. I'm an adult. I'll deal with it.
But if you have even one shred of decency in you - leave my kids out of it.
I will never be ashamed for showering my kids with love and affection, and neither should any
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Professor Joseph Massad of
@Columbia
wrote on October 8 that the massacre of Jews was awesome.
For two decades he has been indoctrinating students to hate Jews and Israel.
Two weeks ago, he was front and center at an UNAUTHORIZED pro-Hamas and pro-Islamic Jihad protest.…
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This is the person who, right now, is barring the NYPD from dealing with Hamas on campus.
Shame on
@Columbia
FLASHBACK: At an event just two months after 9/11, Columbia University's current president Minouche Shafik remarked that terrorism "is a form of protesting"
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An Open Letter to Every Parent In America
Please help me get this message out to every parent in the United States.
Please help me protect your children.
I am BEGGING you - "liking" this is not enough.
Please retweet right NOW.
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In a video that has since gone viral, I stood on Columbia University’s main campus and pleaded with my employer to protect me and help me protect the thousands of Jewish students whose lives and safety have been entrusted to us by worried parents all across the United States.
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Let me be as clear as I can:
This is not about being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine.
This is about making a clear distinction between legitimate resistance and unspeakable crimes against humanity.
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Hi everyone,
I'm overwhelmed right now. If you want up-to-date information about what's going on at
@Columbia
, follow
@CampusJewHate
. For the past six months, these angels have archived every incident of antisemitism and support for terrorism by students and by faculty at
While Professor
@ShaiDavidai
has been barred from
@Columbia
’s campus, pro-terrorism Professor Abdou is free to roam around. Here he is at the illegal pro-Hamas camp on Monday morning.
Recall that this is the professor who President Shafik said no longer works at Columbia last…
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Here is a short clip of the founder of Students for 'Justice' in Palestine calling for an armed uprising in the U.S., just like the one in Iraq.
Reminder: Hatem Bazian is, at this very moment, a professor
@UCBerkely
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This seems like a clear violation of Congressional ethics.
@IlhanMN
has *direct* links to the antisemitic, pro-Hamas student organizations at
@Columbia
.
She should be immediately removed from any congressional committee on the topic.
@virginiafoxx
@EliseStefanik
…
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I pleaded with my employer to help me protect the lives of thousands of Jewish students from pro-terror student organizations who openly laud Hamas—an internationally recognized terrorist organization.
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When I talk about antisemitism at
@Columbia
University, this is what I'm talking about.
Imagine being a Jewish or Israeli student in need of advice and being assigned this rabid antisemite as your counselor.
I guess racism is fine at Columbia, so long as the victims are Jews.
Lameess Mehanna is the assc director of undergrad career development
@Columbia
. Speaking at an anti-Israel protest, Mehanna vowed, “We can make sure that it is etched in the books of history that 2023 was the beginning of the end for the Zionist entity."
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Students for Jihad in Palestine at
@Columbia
spent the last 24 hours excusing, defending, and celebrating Iran.
I've been warning about this for six months.
The administration has done absolutely nothing.
#NoHamasOnCampus
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My children may be American citizens, but, through their mother and me, they are Israelis, too.
And because they are Israelis, because they are Jews, I fear for them.
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I can’t afford not to take a stance.
Not when students’ lives are on the line.
Not when my children’s lives are on the line.
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Hey,
@Columbia
!
You know how you were so proud of your new policy stating that student need two days of advanced registration to organize a protest?
Well, your pro-Hamas & pro-Islamic Jihad organizations are planning an unauthorized protest tomorrow.
And guess what - they
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Sheep, led by wolves, at
@Columbia
.
This is why I call these pro-Hamas organizations the modern version of the Hitler Youth.
They just repeat and chant the hate they're told to.
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I pleaded with the presidents of colleges and universities all around the country to take a clear moral stance against rape and torture and the kidnapping of helpless civilians.
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Friday:
@Columbia
University announces that chants understood as a call for genocide are against school policy.
Today, at
@BarnardCollege
: Student organizations calling "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
@Columbia
: What do you plan to do about this?
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This is what the President of Columbia is refusing to condemn. This is what the President of Harvard is refusing to condemn. This is what the Presidents of Yale and NYU and UC Berkeley and many other "enlightened" institutions throughout the country are refusing to condemn.
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This
@Columbia
professor has a problem with former IDF soldiers being on campus.
She doesn't have a problem with ex-soldiers from any other place.
Her only problem is with Israelis.
@ProfKFranke
- I served in the IDF. Do you think I also shouldn't be allowed on campus?
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I pleaded with colleges and universities to live up to their stated mission of humanism and enlightenment. I pleaded—and still plead—because the silence of college presidents all across the country is deafening.
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There is obviously no anti-semitism at
@Columbia
University.
(screenshot taken by a student before the post was deleted)
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You can support the rights of millions of innocent Palestinians and still take a moral stance against heinous violence and brutality.
I know, because I do.
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SJP has never hidden its support for terror.
In 2014, SJP raised funds for Rasmea Odeh – a terrorist convicted of bombing a crowded supermarket and murdering Leon Kanner and Eddie Joffe – two undergraduate students at
@HebrewU
*This is what makes SJP a pro-terror organization*
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I fear for my two-year-old daughter, who’s funny and brave and thinks everyone in the world is her friend.
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I fear, because there are student organizations on my own campus who see my beautiful children as legitimate targets.
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I fear, because the president of my university—my very own employer—refuses to speak up against such senseless violence and hatred.
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President Shafik of
@Columbia
should be fired RIGHT NOW and face personal lawsuits for this.
Pro-Hamas Columbia students chant shocking slogans at
@Columbia
:
--> "From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab!"
--> "There is no god but Allah, and the martyr is Allah’s beloved!"
--> "Israel Go to Hell!"
--> "Resistance [Hamas] is justified!"
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For years, SJP has openly supported Hamas.
Hamas is a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Don’t take my word for it.
Here is the official list of foreign terror organizations that are recognized by the U.S. State Department Bureau of Counterterrorism,
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I am so immensely proud of the thousands of Jewish alumni of
@Columbia
University.
I will keep fighting for your alma mater.
BREAKING: CJAA sends open letter to President Shafik
@Columbia
warning that campus is now under MOB RULE and calling for IMMEDIATE CLOSURE OF COLUMBIA GATES and ENFORCEMENT of University rules of conduct.
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I've said it once and I'll say it again: Within Our Lifetime is a domestic terrorist organization.
The
@FBI
and
@NYPDCT
must get involved.
Yesterday, outside Columbia University: "Al-Qassam, you make us proud, kill another soldier now!"
Al-Qassam is the armed wing of Hamas. People are openly calling for the murder of Israelis by a genocidal terrorist regime on the streets of New York.
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I fear for my seven-year-old son, who still asks me to sit next to his bed for a few minutes every night when I tuck him into bed.
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How it could be that so many Americans students have been radicalized to support terrorism and hate everything the U.S. stands for?
The answer is simple: indoctrination.
Consider this video of Dr. Mohamed Abdou, a Hamas-supporting, Visiting Professor at
@Columbia
.
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Today, students at
@Columbia
University organized a vigil against anti-semitism.
It was the first time in 5 weeks in which I felt at home on my own campus.
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So, what is Students for ‘Justice’ in Palestine all about?
This organization was founded in 2001 by Hatem Bazian at
@UCBerkely
.
From its inception (and despite the lies they perpetuate), SJP called for violence in the United States
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