New York City’s Ivy League campus, Columbia University, has become a place where Jewish students are not welcome. It’s time for the leadership of Columbia and its sister school, Barnard College, to step up and protect all of their students by providing severe discipline for lawbreakers and structural reforms to ensure they cannot run rampant again. If the schools cannot take these steps, they must face serious consequences. If you are a Jewish student, your safety is at stake. If you are a parent, your children are under siege. If you are an American, these forces will come for you next. We have seen this before. We know where it leads. And we must not let it happen again.
During the spring 2024 semester, masked radicals took over Columbia’s campus. As a result, classes and year-end commencement ceremonies were canceled, and Jewish students fled from the campus. Now, as the 2025 spring semester is underway, masked hooligans have launched an assault on Barnard. First, on Feb. 26, anti-Israel extremists stormed and occupied Milbank Hall, prevented students from attending classes, vandalized property, and assaulted a public safety officer so severely that he was hospitalized.
