Trump's task force to visit Columbia and 9 other schools to combat anti-Semitism

The Trump administration's task force slated to combat pro-Hamas Jew-hatred will be visiting Columbia University in New York City and nine other schools that have been supporting Hamas since they massacred around 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 251 others on October 7, 2023, the DoJ announced Friday.

Leo Terrell, the leader of a special task force and a senior advisor to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, told 10 universities on Thursday that they might have broken federal laws. The Justice Department says these schools didn’t do enough to stop Jewish students and teachers from facing unfair treatment, which is against the law. Terrell explained that his team, made up of people from different government agencies, will talk to university bosses, affected students and workers, local police, and people in the community to learn more about what’s been happening. He’ll also look into whether the schools need to take any steps to fix the problem or punish anyone involved.

"The President, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, and the entire Administration are committed to ensuring that no one should feel unsafe or unwelcome on campus because of their religion," Terrell said. "The Task Force’s mandate is to bring the full force of the federal government to bear in our effort to eradicate Anti-Semitism, particularly in schools. These visits are just one of many steps this Administration is taking to deliver on that commitment."

The Justice Department launched the task force earlier this month "to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses." It stems from an executive order President Donald Trump signed in January intended to take "forceful and unprecedented steps to combat anti-Semitism."

Four of the schools slated for a visit by the task force—Columbia, the University of California, Berkeley, Northwestern University, and the University of Minnesota—are also facing investigations from the Department of Education, which launched probes into "widespread anti-Semitic harassment" at the schools just two weeks into Trump’s second term. A fifth school, Portland State University, is also part of the investigation but isn’t included in the task force’s visits . . . yet.

Columbia, in particular, has faced ongoing anti-Semitic incidents. On Wednesday, two anti-Semitic student groups—Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter—led a mob of student Jew haters who stormed a campus building at Columbia’s sister school, Barnard College and clashed with security guards, sending one to the hospital.

The group also held a dean captive, covered up security cameras, broke into an office, vandalized walls, and forced class cancellations. In other words, they committed acts of terrorism but were short of killing anyone at this point in time.

The scum-buckets got off scot-free after the cowardly enabling administration promised not to pursue disciplinary action, and even shielded them from police as they exited the building after occupying it for over six hours. They also agreed to continue negotiations the next day in a private meeting. 

It isn't know whether the administration plans to dry clean their keffiyehs, but it shouldn't surprise anyone if they did.

The student radicals were pressuring the Barnard administration to reverse its decision to expel two students who were involved in another anti-Semitic incident at Columbia. The pair were among a group of pro-Hamas agitators who rushed into an Israeli history class and targeted Jewish students with anti-Semitic flyers.

A week later, anti-Israel student radicals dumped cement into a campus building’s sewage system and apparently got away with the dastardly deed.

At Berkeley, a violent protest last year erupted over a scheduled speech by an Israeli lawyer, Ran Bar-Yoshafat, the Free Beacon reported. During the event, which had to be canceled due to the violence, mobs of anti-Semitic students choked a female student attendee, spit in another’s face, and shouted, "Jew, Jew, Jew."

During the anti-Israel protests at Northwestern last year, demonstrators, some of whom were from the Middle East, defaced the Star of David and chanted that Jews should "go back to Germany," even those that were born in the US, among other stupid anti-Semitic incidents. 

Northwestern is also giving free legal defense to a group of anti-Israel morons who orchestrated a blockade at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, highlighting a perceived inconsistency in addressing discriminatory practices on campus.

At the University of Minnesota, anti-Israel student radicals stormed a campus building in October, used furniture to barricade exit doors, trapped staff inside, and demanded divestment from the Jewish state, but allow cool Israeli inventions to continue [see video].

Harvard University and the University of California, Los Angeles are also among the universities the task force is visiting.

Jewish students at Harvard accused the Ivy League university of becoming a "bastion of anti-Semitism" in a January 2024 lawsuit. 

The day after Trump’s inauguration, the school settled the lawsuit, agreeing to discipline students who target "Zionists" and adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. 

In November, anti-Israel/anti-Semitic protesters chanted, "Zionists are not welcome here," outside of Harvard’s Hillel when it hosted a speech by former Israel Defense Forces spokesman Ronen Manelis. The university also refused to cooperate with law enforcement investigating an assault on a Jewish student last September.

At UCLA, the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter vandalized the home of a Jewish University of California regent on Feb. 5. The university has also faced accusations that it was allowing anti-Semitism to run rampant. In August, a federal judge blasted the university for standing around doing nothing as anti-Semites prevented Jewish students from accessing portions of campus.

The task force will also be visiting George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, NYU, and the University of Southern California.

Am Yisrael Chai.

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