Anti-Israel US Campus Groups Radicalize, With No One to Stop Them, Experts Warn

These days, Brian Cohen, the executive director of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life at Columbia University, spends more time than he would like explaining the meaning behind social media posts to campus administrators — from one featuring an infamous photograph of a man holding up his bloody hands during the Ramallah lynching in 2000, to others highlighting the inverted red triangle used by the Hamas terror group to paint targets.  

“The administration needs to understand who that guy in the window [with the bloody hands] is to understand why that post is so problematic,” Cohen said. 

“Personally, I am afraid for the safety of the community for everyone at the university; I can see one random student get inspired to do something violent.”  

Since the start of the fall semester, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), an anti-Israel coalition of more than 100 student organizations, has used explicitly violent rhetoric and images in its online postings.

In its October 8 statement, the umbrella group wrote, “We support liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance. In the face of violence from the oppressor equipped with the most lethal military force on the planet, where you’ve exhausted all peaceful means of resolution, violence is the only path forward.”  (TOI / VFI News)

“Rescue me, Lord, from evildoers; protect me from the violent, who devise evil plans in their hearts and stir up war every day.” - Psalm 140:1-2

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