The parade of useful idiots on New York City’s Barnard College campus seems to be expanding. On Wednesday, 50 anti-Israel protestors seized a campus building. On Thursday, at least 100 protesters gathered at the entrance to Barnard College, wearing keffiyehs and shouting “Free Palestine.”
More protests broke out on Thursday at New York City’s Barnard College after a group of more than 50 anti-Israel agitators took over a building on campus the day before.
The NYPD made several arrests after the protests reignited, with around 100 anti-Israel demonstrators gathering in front of the entrance to Barnard, once again wearing masks and keffiyehs and chanting, “Free Palestine.”
Tension rose and became more chaotic as protesters marched from Barnard to CUNY’s City College campus, to protest outside Gov. Kathy Hochul’s event at CUNY, which was canceled due to the anticipated protest.
The protesters were heard chanting criticisms of Hochul and “NYPD KKK,” and tried to breach police barricades and get close to officers’ faces.
This kind of behavior, we should note, is not a First Amendment issue. These are not “fiery but peaceful” protests. What happened on Wednesday was a riot. There were arrests. There should have been more:
Robin Levine, Barnard’s vice president for strategic communications, confirmed that a faculty member was injured during Wednesday’s protest and sent to the hospital, but did not offer further details.
“They encouraged others to enter campus without identification, showing blatant disregard for the safety of our community,” Levine said in a previous statement.
The school warned that if the students were not gone by 9:30 p.m., officials would be forced to take “additional, necessary measures to protect our campus.”
The students were not gone by 9:30 PM. […]
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