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What kind of barbarism in academia is this?

According to the New York Post:

A handful of Cooper Union’s Jewish students barricaded inside the university’s library Wednesday when pro-Palestinian protesters blew past security and aggressively pounded on the building’s doors.

A Jewish senior at the East Village institution recounted the terrifying moment she watched the demonstrators slam anti-Zionist posters against the window and shout “anti-Semitic rhetoric” just a few feet away.

“When they started banging on the door, my heart started pounding. I was crying. I think if the doors weren’t locked — I don’t know what would have happened,” the student, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post.

“I don’t want to speculate what would’ve happened. It just makes me too nervous. I was absolutely terrified in that moment.”

So you’re a Jewish kid. Maybe you are Orthodox and wear a yarmulke. You get into a good school. You study hard in a library, sometimes with your friends, because you know that schooling is important and you want to graduate. You aren’t out partying. You are doing the right thing.

And suddenly, a gang of goons from somewhere out on the streets, wielding Palestinian flags, takes a pivot from their plan to get to the president’s office, after seeing you, and then barricades you in and pounds on the doors, threatening you and flashing anti-Semitic signs through the library windows and bellowing about something happening several thousand miles away, blaming you for all of it, all because you are Jewish.

Obviously, this isn’t about Zionism, or the Israel government, or anything the Palestinian apologists claim. This is straight, naked Jew-hate.

Worse still, it’s not thugs on the street doing thuggish anti-Semitic acts, it’s the university establishment condoning it from other thugs. The story says the protestors busted through the security guards who tried to block them. The kids called the cops. The cops got there but stood by twiddling their thumbs because the university told them not to get involved and they actully honored that, despite what they were seeing going on.

The establishment actively collaborated with the terrorizers who targeted Jews, and though the protestors were unable to break in, the way they would have liked to, that was only because someone got the door shut and locked in time.

This is an outrage. Those kids were studying hard and paying good money to go to this university yet the university allowed a bunch of interlopers, who might not have even been students, to invade the campus and terrorize these students and get away with it. The creeps weren’t even arrested for their stunt.

The Post says the response was so weak the kids had to be led out by a back door — not the front door, which is what they were entitled to do, but the back door, and the university’s president, wokester Laura Sparks, did likewise.

That’s one heck of a weak response, borne of bias towards not offending so-called Palestinians and their activists, but in reality, naked anti-Semites.

What’s more, this university has a history of this. When wokester New York University professor Shellyne Rodriguez was fired by that establishment for threatening a New York Post reporter with a machete and chasing him down the street for asking her about one of her unhinged abortion rants, Cooper Union stepped right up to hire the freak, in a classic fail-upward. They want people like this employed by the school and teaching kids.

No wonder the Jewish kids can no longer feel safe.

It’s obviously a problem of leadership over there, and the leadership needs to be removed. Donors must close their checkbooks, and the federal and state governments need to revoke their accreditation and government grants. The kids, at a minimum, should be able to sue their keisters off for breach of contract. Because if none of this happens, they’ll do it again — and worse.

In an atmosphere like this, what chance does any decent kid who wants to study hard and do his schoolwork have with anti-Semites of the rawest sort being coddled?