This shall not pass: A group of student activists with Columbia’s Jewish Voice for Peace handed the school’s new president, Claire Shipman, a test on Wednesday when they chained themselves to a campus gate and chanted “globalize the intifada.”
The students said they were protesting the Columbia trustees “who collaborated in the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil” and pledged to stay put until the school revealed which trustees “FACILITATED THE ABDUCTION OF OUR BELOVED FRIEND” by calling ICE to campus.
Columbia hasn’t done that—a school spokeswoman told us that “no member” of its leadership team “has ever requested the presence” of ICE on campus (duh). Instead, public safety officials removed the protesters’ chains and escorted them off campus. The spokeswoman said participants were identified and will now undergo “the process established in the Rules of University Conduct for enforcing violations.”
In the past, that process
