Far-left students commandeered a Barnard College building late Wednesday to protest the expulsion of two antisemitic students.
Last month, the two students stormed an Israeli history class at Columbia University, which lies across the street from Barnard College, and proceeded to fling around flyers dripping with violent, antisemitic hate.
Watch:
It’s day 1 of Prof. @shilonavi History of Modern Israel @Columbia and masked protestors just barged in to intimidate and disrupt. So much for “academic freedom.”
Welcome to Columbia, 2025! pic.twitter.com/S6GbzKFqut
— Elisha (Lishi) Baker (@LishiBaker) January 21, 2025
Flash forward to this week, when the students were expelled, becoming the first Columbia students to be expelled over the Israel-Gaza war.
In a statement, Barnard College president Laura Rosenbury attributed the expulsion in part to the students’ lack of remorse.
“When rules are broken, when there is no remorse, no reflection, and no willingness to change, we must act,” she said in a statement. “Expulsion is always an extraordinary measure, but so too is our commitment to respect, inclusion, and the integrity of the academic experience.”
The school’s notably large cohort of radicalized, far-left activists responded by vowing to protest until the students are granted “amnesty.”
Barnard college EXPELS two students for pro-Palestinian activism under pressure from billionaire donors
Follow @ColumbiaBDS for details on an upcoming WEEK OF ACTION demanding Barnard reverse the expulsions! pic.twitter.com/sngbcSpYc8
— CU Apartheid Divest (CUAD) (@ColumbiaBDS) February 23, 2025
The protest began around 4:00 pm Wednesday evening in Barnard College’s Milbank Hall, where masked activists pushed past a security guard whom they reportedly injured, and then began chanting “there is only one solution, intifada revolution” as they performed a sit-in.
The school later accused the activists of having hurt the security guard. They said in a statement to the New York Times that the activists had “physically assaulted a Barnard employee, sending them to the hospital.”
Watch them barging into the building below:
An employee of @BarnardCollege was physically assaulted so badly that he/she had to go to the hospital to seek treatment. The people responsible for the injuries are @ColumbiaSJP and @ColumbiaBDS. @preslrosenbury, you are failing to protect your staff by allowing @ColumbiaBDS… pic.twitter.com/phPAhaW0cp
— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U (@CampusJewHate) February 27, 2025
A local police spokesperson added in a separate statement that a 41-year-old man had been taken to Mt. Sinai Morningside Hospital by ambulance after he reported experiencing “pain about the body.”
Meanwhile, the protest led to some students, at least one of them Jewish, being blocked from getting to their classes.
Watch:
“You’re catering to them. You gotta get them out. We all have to go to class” – @jonny_led standing outside @BarnardCollege trying to get to class. pic.twitter.com/QiQbs2aIKS
— Elisha (Lishi) Baker (@LishiBaker) February 26, 2025
One of the activists’ demands was that they be granted a meeting with Dean Leslie Grinage. At one point, a so-called “faculty intermediary,” Kristina Milnor, informed the activist students that Grinage had agreed to meet with three of them only if they removed their masks and displayed their identification.
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BREAKING
This is university counterinsurgency in real-time—turning negotiation into surveillance, safety into a bargaining chip, and bureaucracy into a tool of containment.
Barnard students are staging a sit-in, demanding the reinstatement of two expelled peers. The… pic.twitter.com/cQGwBjv5LS
— Unity of Fields (@unityoffields) February 26, 2025
The activist students refused the deal.
Then, at 8:30 pm, a fed-up Bernard spokesperson issued a statement warning that unless the students left within the hour, “Barnard will be forced to consider additional, necessary measures to protect our campus,” including calling in the police.
“We have made multiple good-faith efforts to de-escalate,” the spokesperson continued. “Barnard leadership offered to meet with the protesters — just as we meet with all members of our community — on one simple condition: remove their masks. They refused. We have also offered mediation.”
The sit-in ended shortly thereafter, with the activist students reportedly beating a drum as they marched out of the building.
BREAKING: Staff are fleeing after terror supporting students and faculty took over a building at Columbia.
Columbia should immediately lose its accreditation and all federal funding. pic.twitter.com/29nBcHsRJr
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) February 26, 2025
Rosenbury subsequently released a statement calling the protest “unacceptable.”
“But let us be clear: their disregard for the safety of our community remains completely unacceptable,” she said.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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