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A few hours after Columbia students broke into, entered, and vandalized buildings on multiple college campuses including Columbia University, the College Democrats of America sent out a press release endorsing the protests.
They characterized them as «peaceful» and «heroic.»
Heroic. Protests where the leaders are calling for the murder of all «Zionists.» Protests where «Glory to Our Martyrs» signs hang?
College Democrats come out with support for anti-Israel protests — even *after* the activists’ takeover of Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall: https://t.co/r0VXyeVOKW— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) April 30, 2024
The College Democrats are an official student arm of the Democrat National Committee, so this is no insignificant offshoot of a radical activist group. It is the Democrat Party, at least an official unit of it. Even The New York Times has emphasized the connection between the statement and the violence we have seen overnight.
It’s so glaringly obvious that it is impossible to ignore. The official student caucus of the Democrat National Committee is calling these antisemitic thugs «heroic.»
College Democrats of America, the student organization of the Democratic Party, endorsed pro-Palestinian campus protests on Tuesday and called on President Biden to support a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.
In a statement approved by the organization’s executive board by a vote of 8 to 2, the College Democrats praised student protesters for having “the moral clarity to see this war for what it is: destructive, genocidal and unjust,” and condemned college administrators for suspending and calling in the police to arrest them.
The statement came after two tumultuous weeks in which pro-Palestinian protests spread to campuses across the country in the wake of a police crackdown at Columbia University. Students who oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack have set up encampments and, in many cases, kept them going after participants were suspended or arrested.
Overnight from Monday into Tuesday, protesters at Columbia took over a building on campus. Protesters have escalated similarly at two other colleges, Portland State University and California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt.
