Ari Allyn-Feuer
Fathom Journal, May 2024
“The main leader of the encampment personally believes that ‘Zionists do not deserve to live,’ and has repeatedly engaged in public threats of violence against ‘Zionists,’ including at a university disciplinary hearing.”
If Columbia in fact calls in law enforcement to its campus, and they in fact clear out the Palestine encampment on its lawn and restore order to the campus, so that in-person classes can resume and its graduation ceremony can take place, what previous events from US history will this most resemble?
The National Guard clearing segregationist protesters to allow the Little Rock Nine to attend Little Rock Central High School on 23 September 1957.
I do not mean this metaphorically, I mean that these two events, in 1957 and 2024, will be literally the same type of event: law enforcement removing a mob trying to segregate a school.
The encampment now operating on and around Columbia’s campus is literally a movement to segregate Columbia by removing Israelis and other Jews.
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