A section of anti-Israel students at Columbia University are being criticized after they distributed a hate newsletter, “The Columbia Intifada,” on campus, according to a report. NY PostThe group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) printed 1,000 copies of the broadsheet and handed it out to students on the Ivy League institute’s campus. It contains at least a half-dozen articles with titles including “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood,” “The Myth of the Two-State Solution” and a handy “wheatpesting guide” – a guide to vandalizing public surfaces with propaganda flyers or other messages. A method.
Another anti-Israel group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, shared photos of the newspaper on Instagram and urged students to pick up one of the copies.
“Excited by the Press! Columbia SJP’s first print paper ‘The Columbia Intifada’ is available at today’s read-in in Butler Library 301!”. Read post caption.
It said, “We are distributing 1,000 copies – get them whenever you can! From river to sea, Palestine will be free.”
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The newspaper had no bylines or information linking the articles to their respective authors.
When asked about the college’s name being used to publish such a newspaper, Columbia University distanced itself from the issue.
The outlet quoted a school representative as saying, “Using the Columbia name for a publication that glorifies violence and makes individuals in our community feel targeted in any way is a violation of our values.”
“As we have said repeatedly, discrimination and promotion of violence or terror is not acceptable and contrary to the views of our community. We are investigating this incident through our applicable offices and policies.”
Republican New York Congressman Mike Lawler took to X9 (formerly Twitter) and criticized the university for allowing the newspaper to be published and distributed.
“This is outrageous. If @Columbia cannot protect Jewish students on their campus, they should lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked,” Mr. Lawler wrote.
He added, “And as for those students who are here on visas engaged in the “intifada” against American students of the Jewish faith? Deport them.”
this is outrageous.
If @Columbia Can’t protect Jewish students on their campus, they should lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked.
And as for the students who are here on visas engaged in the “intifada” against American students of the Jewish faith? Deport them.
– Congressman Mike Lawler (@RepMikeLawler) 6 December 2024
Since the Hamas attack on October 7 and Israel’s subsequent response, Columbia University has been the center of disruptive protests – often targeting Israel and Jews in particular.
What is intifada?
Intifada chants have been heard during several protests on American college campuses in the past year. Intifada in layman’s terms means revolt or rebellion, which the Palestinian side refers to as a peaceful call to oppose Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. However, Jews consider chants such as “Globalization of the Intifada” as calls for violence against them and the State of Israel.
There have been two intifadas so far in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Both the First Intifada (1987–1993) and the Second Intifada (2000–2005) involved violence, bloodshed, terrorist attacks, and loss of normal life.
