264 Comments

Praying for your safety, Jonathan. You are brave to document this insanity. It is absurd to see that those who believe words are violence have destroyed physical safety within ivory towers.

Call out Columbia’s new DIE President Minouche Shafik. Less than a year on the job, she is competing hard against Gay, Magill, and Kornbluth for the worlds most destructive, craven, and incompetent university leader. Shafik is a classic commissar whose demoralized resume includes the Gates Foundation, World Bank, IMF, Georgetown, Penn, Oxford, and LSE. The longer you spend in these institutions, the more your spine soul and brain rot away.

Our "elite" universities are madrassas for the woke jihad: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-wage-a-progressive-jihad

Expand full comment
founding

Jonathan, his brother, their friends: mensches all. May G_d protect them.

Expand full comment

Suspend federal dollars to the institutions. Tax payers should not be underwriting this dangerous anarchy.

Expand full comment

What law prevents NYPD to enter private university grounds when violence is occurring? Do cops have to be invited to enter a private home when domestic violence is taking place.

Expand full comment

Do your history read what the brown shirts did in Germany in the 1930’s. You’re living the modern version. Nazi party =Democratic Party

Expand full comment

If Columbia were a serious institution -- and it most certainly is not -- every one of these students would be expelled tomorrow.

Expand full comment

There is no way to “like” this article in any way…this is an incredibly terrible way to treat humans. If this is the story amongst many “elite” college campuses-it’s a disgrace and I’m utterly disgusted.

Expand full comment

You are brave and your own parents should be very proud. 🇮🇱✡️

Expand full comment
founding

Columbia, like other universities, has an obligation to protect its students. So does the NYPD. If someone were murdered on campus, you can be sure that the cops will be there regardless of whether the president requests it. It’s a felony, and police are required to respond to felonies. So, as it turns out, is assault and battery, which is plainly the case here. NYPD and Eric “the Wonderful” Adams are completely incorrect hiding behind the putative rule of engagement requiring the Columbia administration to request the cops before they can respond.

Bottom line: assuming the truth and accuracy of the essay, both Columbia U and the NYPD are grossly criminally and civilly negligent. Lawyers are necessary here. Only a fool would forego chasing down these bastards. ALL of them.

Expand full comment
founding

Praying for your safety, Jonathan. Many of your peers have been brainwashed and, in spite of their supposed academic intellect, refuse to read or acknowledge history. Our Jewish tradition teaches us that we must not be bystanders in the face of evil, and you are making our people proud by doing just that. When the haters succumb to their basest instincts, we Jews rise to our noblest. Stay brave and strong - we support you!!

Expand full comment

So proud that you and your brother are standing up to prejudice and hatred at Columbia. It is beyond comprehension that this type of mob mentality is allowed to thrive on campuses across America. If a loud, violent, white robed KKK protested publicly i don’t think Columbia would let them be. Or would they?

Expand full comment

This is a depraved mob scene. I am so sorry. Stay strong. We support you.

Expand full comment

Your courage is to be admired. Most don't have your strength and resolve.

I don't agree with the call of the campus Rabbi to flee the campus. Stand up for what is right (as you have been).

Some of the demonstrators will say they are not anti-Semitic. They just want a cease fire. Uh-huh. That's why they yell "Go back to Poland." It's all just in support of the people of Gaza, you see.

Expand full comment

SMH. These self-identified woke liberals are more hateful and intolerant than their right wing supremacist brethren.

Mr. Lederer, if I had my way the snarling visages of these odious fools would be splashed across the news and every employer's watchlist. They are an embarrassment to themselves, their parents and the University. Stay your course. The vast majority of Americans are with you.

Expand full comment

The leftist march through the institutions, which many Jews have been a part of, is now biting you in the ass, because the left always eats itself in its voracious appetite for fresh new causes / enemies.

Will Jews see this and vote for the party that isn’t captured by people that hate them? Will Jews remember that MAGA people stand with Israel while the Ivy League dons can barely contain their contempt?

Expand full comment

Where are the Police? Unbelievable!

Expand full comment