Two weeks into protests on the Columbia University campus in New York, students rebuffed a “tent city” encampment clearance deadline on Monday, refusing the administration’s instruction to leave voluntarily or face suspensions. Instead, the anti-Israel student demonstrators took over Hamilton Hall. They forcefully entered the building, broke windows, barricaded themselves inside, and hung a giant banner reading “intifada,” which means violent revolution, from an upper-floor window.
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Like Hamas, they also participated in kidnappings, holding the building’s occupants against their will, including one worker who spoke about the incident, saying:
They held me hostage.
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Now, the students are getting hungry and thirsty. During a press conference on Tuesday, one reporter grilled a protest organizer, asking:
Why should the l the university be obligated to provide food to people who have taken over a building?
The woman responded by saying Columbia has an obligation to students who pay for food, saying:
Well, first of all, we’re saying that they’re obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here.
The reporter tries to clarify the group’s demands, saying:
But you mentioned that there was a request that food and water be brought in. Unless I misunderstood.
The Hamas-sympathizer responds:
To allow it to be brought in.
I mean, well, I guess it’s ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students. Um, Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill, even if they disagree with you? If the answer is no, then you should allow basic… I mean, it’s crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for. Like, could people please have a glass of water?
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The reporter skewers this logic:
But they did put themselves in that… very deliberately in that situation, and in that position. So it seems like you’re sort of saying, ‘We want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us food and water?’
The occupier replies:
Nobody’s asking them to bring anything. We’re asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid.
Another member of the media asks if the university is preventing food from reaching Hamilton Hall:
They’re stopping the delivery of food?
Turns out, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The protest chick says:
We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop it violently.
Member of the media clarifies:
Oh, but they haven’t stopped it yet?
Hamas lady:
Well, I don’t know to what extent it has been attempted, but we’re looking for a commitment.
Unfortunately, the reporter’s follow-up question about Grub Hub was cut short in the video clip. However, when students in California’s northern redwoods of Humboldt County similarly barricaded themselves at California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly), my initial thought was:
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How the h*** are they gonna get DoorDash in there?
Defying all property rights and violating student and staff well-being are not acts of First Amendment-protected protest. The Hamas day campers’ demands for food and water are another sign of a highly entitled and unresourceful group of Ivy League brats. Lately, I’ve been making an analogy that the student protestors are cosplaying Muslim refugees, and they drove that point home by calling their meal plans “humanitarian aid.” I’ll be glad when this insufferable scene is concluded, and they retreat to their parent’s upstate summer homes.
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