EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Elise Stefanik says that “Barnard College’s appeasement of the pro-Hamas anti-Semitic mob left their Jewish students at risk,” demands expulsions and prosecution
THE LOWDOWN:
Barnard College saw a building overtaken by pro-Hamas students and faculty;
Staff fled the building as the protesters filed in;
Rep. Elise Stefanik, Trump’s designate to the UN and current New York congresswoman, told the Reporter that “Barnard College’s appeasement of the pro-Hamas anti-Semitic mob left their Jewish students at risk.”
In yet another cowardly exposition of anti-Semitic behavior at Barnard College — and, by extension, Columbia University — staff were forced to flee a university building overrun by pro-terrorist students.
The Washington Reporter reached out to President Donald Trump’s United Nations Ambassador Designate Elise Stefanik about the viral video posted online showing professors leaving a building on campus that was taken over by keffiyeh-wearing students too scared to associate their faces with the Marxist movement they support.
The video showed staff fleeing the building after pro-Hamas students staged an invasion of the Barnard College facility. The pro-terrorist students also reportedly assaulted a staff member and caused thousands of dollars in damages to the school — all without consequence.
Stefanik, a current New York congresswoman, told the Reporter that “Barnard College’s appeasement of the pro-Hamas antisemitic mob left their Jewish students at risk.” When Stefanik puts a college in her crosshairs, changes soon follow. After last Congress’s viral hearings on campus anti-Semitism, several purportedly elite schools like Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania fired their top leadership, or saw them resign in disgrace.
“While these self-proclaimed terrorists forcibly took over a campus building, assaulting staff to the point of hospitalization, and spewing vile antisemitic hate,” she said.
“Barnard's leadership entertained their demands taking hours to issue a passive statement resulting in no disciplinary action and a meeting with the college president to negotiate,” Stefanik continued.
“There can be no negotiating with self-proclaimed terrorists. Any students and faculty involved must be immediately expelled, fired, and prosecuted,” she added.
The Reporter reached out to Barnard asking if the students will face consequences for their actions and if not, why.
A spokesperson for Barnard pointed to previous statements from the college’s vice president of strategic communications, Robin Levine, on the anti-Semitic students.
Levine said the “masked protesters left Milbank Hall after receiving final written notice and being informed that Barnard would be forced to consider additional necessary measures to protect the campus if they did not leave on their own,” Levine’s statement from February 27 said.
Barnard’s cowardice as an institution is the latest dark reflection of the reality that Jews face on American campuses. Last year saw violent anti-Semitic protests hit Barnard’s sister school, Columbia University, as well as other campuses across America. Students at these institutions also faced little to no consequences for their actions, only legitimizing and emboldening them more.
