Rant #3,338: Stop!

The anti-Israel/anti-Semitic protests continue, and now I hear that Columbia University will be negotiating with students to somehow come to a meeting point which would allow the tent city encampment there to be peacefully removed.

Columbia will soon learn the facts the hard way: you cannot peacefully bargain with the terrorists themselves, so you cannot peacefully bargain with the supporters of terrorists, either.

This misbegotten cretins, like their terrorist idols, want all their insidious demands to be met, and if they don't get what they want--for these schools to pull all support, financial and otherwise, that the school participates in with Israel--they are not going to leave peacefully.

Columbia and the other schools should have nipped this problem in the bud immediately, and removed these thugs right away.

Now, the sore has festered, and just how are the school administrations going to rid themselves of this human garbage? Give into their demands?

These are supposedly "students," although we know from the past George Floyd debacle that many are outside agitators, and even more, while registered as being "students" at these institutions, are being paid off--in cash or class grades--for their participation.

And House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, visited Columbia yesterday, speaking with Jewish students about what is happening at the campus.

Before meeting with them, Johnson said that Columbia's president should resign if she is unable to quell the commotion on her campus, and he also said the following, which is pretty much the only grain of sanity I have heard in this entire episode:

"Every leader in this country, every political official, every citizen of good conscience has to speak out and say that this is not who we are in America, and we have got to have accountability.”

You would think that this was a statement that would garner bipartisan support.

Think again.

Speaking about his trip to the campus, New York State Governor Kathy "The Yokel" Hochul, a Democrat, said Johnson being on the campus  is "politicizing this and bringing the entourage to put a spotlight on this, is only adding to the division. A speaker worth the title should really be trying to heal people and not divide them, so I don’t think it adds to anything.”

??????????

I graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1979, and I earned my masters degree in 1982.

Now that I am nearly 67 years of age, I am as far removed from the college and university scene as I could possibly be.

I wonder how I would act, and feel, as a Jewish student today.

I really don't know for sure, but I can tell you that I knew right and wrong when i went to school all those years ago, and i still know right from wrong--

And what these hooligans are doing is just so wrong.

They have every right to protest, but they have no right to intimidate their fellow students, and they certainly have no right to be making demands, certainly when they don't listen to civil requests to stop doing what they are doing.

I mean, who are the students and who is the administration here?

Those who continue to rock the boat in such a hate-filled manner should not just be suspended--

They should be EXPELLED for their actions, which are disrupting their respective campuses and threatening the supposed civility of these campuses.

There are thousands of schools across our country, and I am sure that those who should be expelled will be able to find another campus that perhaps meet their own vicious agendas.

And where are these thugs' parents in all of this mayhem?

One can only guess, but one also knows where such hatred is learned in the first place.