The sights and sounds emanating from the once-prestigious Columbia University in New York City over the past week have been about as low and vile as one could imagine. The anti-Israel encampments that have taken over the campus quickly moved from posters to threats, with participants vocally calling for terrorism against Israel and even violence against Jewish students there on the campus of Columbia.
Things got so bad so quickly that the Orthodox rabbi serving Columbia University and Barnard College sent a message to hundreds of Jewish students telling them to flee the campus because neither campus security nor the New York Police Department could guarantee their safety, as reported by Fox News and other outlets.
Antisemites at Yale University, apparently unwilling to be outdone by their counterparts at Columbia, stabbed a female Jewish reporter in the eye with a Palestinian flag. The most maddening part of that episode is that when she tried to report the assault to the police, she was told there was nothing they could do, as reported by the New York Post and other outlets.
And in a scene reminiscent of Nazi Germany, protesters at one point formed a blockade to keep a Jewish student from entering a building.
In the United States of America. In the year 2024.