"Mahmoud Khalil acted as a “negotiator” for the activists. The school lacked any power to change the course of the war, and the activists lacked anything tangible, beyond an end to their shutdown of much of the campus, to give to Columbia, so why Khalil negotiated and Columbia humored him still perplexes."
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. . ."The activists who occupied the lobby of Trump Tower on Thursday demonstrated that the issue still isn’t the issue.
"Ignoring the law led to the arrest of their hero, Mahmoud Khalil. The mob responded to this by again ignoring the law.
"At Columbia University, activists transformed campus green space into a campground and took over Hamilton Hall. On several occasions, the New York City police, at the request of the Columbia University administration, arrested activists and dismantled the tents of the squatters. The protest of Columbia, a non sequitur given the lack of any real connection between the university and the Hamas–Israel war, disrupted the institution’s purpose to such a degree that it called off final examinations for the spring 2024 semester.
"Mahmoud Khalil acted as a “negotiator” for the activists. The school lacked any power to change the course of the war, and the activists lacked anything tangible, beyond an end to their shutdown of much of the campus, to give to Columbia, so why Khalil negotiated and Columbia humored him still perplexes.
"As former Columbia University student Irie Sentner wrote at Politico, “The student group behind the encampment — Columbia University Apartheid Divest, or CUAD — had two main demands: that Columbia cut all its ties to Israel, including divesting and halting plans to build a ‘global center’ in Tel Aviv, and that the protesters themselves receive amnesty for their actions.”
"The issue was not the issue. The group really just wished to cause a ruckus.
"This week, the same crowd again caused a ruckus. They violated private property rights by invading Trump Tower, a place where hundreds of people live. They impeded movement on Fifth Avenue, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the United States." . . .
And for the Trump administration, it’s not really about Khalil involving himself in a prolonged protest that involved all sorts of illegalities. The troubling aspect of the protests partly led by Khalil, a Palestinian born in Syria holding Algerian citizenship, involves the perverse idea underlying them: the righteousness of the barbarous Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, which included kidnapping civilians, raping women, and slaughtering defenseless young people at a music festival. One so outside of civilization as to endorse all that does not belong within our civilization.
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