Columbia University’s long-overdue crackdown on the dozens of students who violently took over Butler Library mark significant if belated steps toward accountability.
For nearly two years, these students have occupied campus buildings, spread terrorist propaganda, praised convicted terrorists, posted Nazi-style antisemitic flyers, smashed doors, disrupted classes, harassed Jewish students and openly endorsed “liberation by any means necessary” — including the Hamas-led Oct. 7 massacre.
Backed by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of over 90 pro-terror student groups, they have platformed speakers linked to US-designated terrorists, called for the death and expulsion of Jews and Israelis, and urged Hamas to target Jewish Americans.
Now they are finally facing consequences.
Yet after months of calling for accountability, I take no pleasure in their expulsions and long-term suspensions.
Let’s be clear: the students who stormed Butler Library got exactly what they deserved.
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