Across dozens of campuses currently opening their fall semesters, there are already calls for masked vigils in support of “Palestine.” Troublingly, many of the groups have gone from calling for demonstrations and encampments to condoning the use of violence and “the total eradication of Western civilization.”
The Student Intifada’s roots can be traced to the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), founded in 1993 at the University of California Berkeley. However, it’s picked up followers since the war in Gaza and then again with the media attention on Columbia University following last year’s highly-covered student encampment.
With Columbia being an epicenter of the anti-Zionist student protests, it comes as no surprise that the Instagram account for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) has posted that it draws inspiration “not only from Palestinian resistance but from every struggle for liberation across the globe, including the student protests of Bangladesh.”
Meanwhile, the Instagram bio of Columbia University’s chapter of SJP now includes the line, “Long live the Student Intifada and Hind’s Hall” together with the inverted red triangle emoji used by the Hamas terror organization to identify its targets. READ MORE
