A team of anti-Israel pupil militants at Columbia University on Saturday slammed the Trump management’s choice to retract greater than $400 million in government gives to the college over its claimed failing to deal with antisemitism on school throughout presentations kept in the consequences of Hamas’Oct 7, 2023, assault versus Israel.
The pupil team, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, reacted on social media sites Saturday evening for the very first time given that the news of the management’s choice, which the team pounded as a “transparent scare tactic.”
“The Trump administration’s announcement that it plans to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia is a transparent scare tactic,” the team created on an Instagram slide show. “The decision has nothing to do with the fabricated charges of antisemitism they are using as a thin cover to slash funding.”
“The federal government is once again attempting to prolong the US-backed genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank by redirecting outrage from the US’s role in genocide to the decolonial student protesters who it baselessly labels antiemetic,” the message proceeded.
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Student militants march around their encampment on the Columbia University school, Monday, April 29, 2024, inNew York ( AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
The team stated the last 2 months of a “hack job” by President Donald Trump and his elderly consultant Elon Musk to “destroy public institutions” has “made clear that the billionaires in government are systematically dismantling every institution that doesn’t privately enrich them.”
The college’s acting head of state, Katrina Armstrong, replied to Trump’s financing cuts on Friday by claiming that the college takes the cuts “very seriously” and is prepared to collaborate with the federal government on its “legitimate concerns.”
“When I accepted the role of Interim President in August 2024, I knew Columbia needed a reset from the previous year and the chaos of encampments and protests on our campus,” Armstrong created. “The University also needed to acknowledge and repair the damage to our Jewish students, who were targeted, harassed, and made to feel unsafe or unwelcome on our campus last spring.”
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Columbia University, where trainees have actually established what is being described as a Gaza Solidarity Encampment, is displayed in New York on April 24, 2024. (Getty Images)
The pupil militants asked in their Instagram message, “President Armstrong who do you serve?”
The team stated the college has actually invested the last 17 months “appeasing Zionists and fascists,” which it stated consists of granting reducing variety, equity and addition programs, enhancing security and also expulsion of pro-Palestinian trainees, “brutally” apprehending militants “at the whim of wealthy donors’ WhatsApp chats” and shooting pro-Palestinian employees.
The pupil militants stated the college likewise denied their phone call to unload from Israel.
Pro-Palestine trainees show on Columbia University’s school in New York City on Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
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“Columbia University has bent over backwards to satiate the Zionist death machine — brutalizing it’s [sic] own students, awarding former IOF [Israel Occupying Force] soldiers thousands of dollars after assaulting protestors, surveilling and shutting out the Harlem community — was it worth it?” the team created in the subtitle of the Instagram message.
“The institution will never keep us safe,” it proceeded. “These cuts won’t be hurting Armstrong’s pockets, instead our most marginalized communities will face the brunt of its impacts. It’s up to us keep us safe.”
The social media sites message included numerous slides, consisting of one that stated “Zionists will never love you” and one more that asked for “organized resistance to obvious injustice.”
