Columbia has pretty much let this go on for weeks. It was easy to see, as the Jew haters were upfront with their beliefs, and the constant reports of Jewish students being harassed and attacked were real. Columbia was also promising to Do Something all Monday, yet, never did. They’re getting what they asked for
Jewish student files class action lawsuit against Columbia for failing to guarantee safety
A class action lawsuit against Columbia University was filed in federal court on Monday morning on behalf of a second-year Jewish student who alleges the school could not guarantee their safety.
“We support peaceful protests but when a sliver of them invites and engages in violence including saying all “Zionist’s” (read “Jews”) should be killed and calls for terrorists attacks on American soil, that has no place in our country,” Jay Edelson, the attorney representing the students, said in a post on X.
According to Edelson, the lawsuit alleges Columbia needs to enforce its policies and let students feel free to study, take finals and otherwise be students “without worrying they will be assaulted.
“We are proceeding on a breach of contract theory and are seeking immediate injunctive relief,” Edelson wrote on X.
And that’s where it’s going to go badly for Columbia, in that the school has refused to enforce it’s published code of conduct. As has been said, if “protesters” were doing this against blacks or LGBTs, the school would have shut it down and expelled any students involved and terminated employment for any employees.
The lawsuit says many individuals at Columbia are exercising their constitutionally protected right to protest and express their views about Israel, but there’s a subset of protestors who have gone beyond engaging in free speech and have “menacing goals” including committing acts of violence and intimidating and harassing Jewish students and faculty members.
Many are, even though they are dupes and morons, taking the side of Islamic extremists. Any wearing an Intifada keffiyeh are supporting Jew killers.
The lawsuit accuses the Gaza Solidarity Encampment of being the center of “round-the-clock” harassment of Jewish students who have been punched, shoved, spat upon, blocked from attending classes and moving freely about campus.
“These extreme demonstrators are not engaging in constitutionally protected free speech. Instead, they are openly inciting violence against Jewish students,” according to the lawsuit.
And all of this is easily provable with video and photos. We’ve seen massive banners and signs––with statements such as: “Death to the Jews”; “Long live Hamas”; “Globalize the Intifada2”; “there is only one solution, Intifada revolution” (invoking Hitler’s “final solution” of killing all Jews); “Hamas we love you.” Columbia will soon be paying quite a bit of money. And many pro-Hamas students and employees are going to have their faces splashed in the news.
‘Hate crime’ rules and laws make this a possibility, and the fact that Jewish students have been much smarter, and less aggressive, puts the onus on the Usual Suspects, the immature, follow-the-cool-crowd protesters. However, there’s more to this: there is the conflict between freedom of speech and maintaining a non-hostile educational environment, when you have serious, emotional responses. If there are 1,000 of the Usual Suspects demonstrating in favor of Hamas, and 15 yell out things which could be considered threatening, how do you prevent that from happening in advance, if you do not know who those 15 [insert plural slang term for the anus here] will be? Any response from the University has to be reactive, not proactive.
Good. Any of the so-called “protesters” breaking laws need to be arrested. Any buildings “occupied” by protesters need to be taken back by authorities, by force. “You have 15 min to gather your things and come out to be arrested.”
The schools typically have more restrictive codes of conduct in addition to local laws. Violators need to dealt with according to school policies. While “Death to Israel” may not be hate speech outside the university, it certainly is prohibited by the schools.