Student agitators at Columbia University began their spring semester by storming an Israeli history class, video shows.
A band of masked keffiyeh-clad students “threw” flyers featuring a smashed Star of David underneath a boot, a burning Israeli flag and weapon-carrying militants at students, according to accounts and videos shared to X.
Among the messages on the flyers were “the enemy will not see tomorrow,” “Burn Zionism to the ground” and “Crush Zionism,” according to images shared by class of 2026 student Lishi Baker.
“It’s day one of… History of Modern Israel @Columbia and masked protesters just barged in to intimidate and disrupt,” the student wrote. “So much for ‘academic freedom.’ Welcome to Columbia, 2025!”
Pictured is a poster handed to students by anti-Israel demonstrators at a History of Modern Israel class on Tuesday. (@LishiBaker on X)
Video of the incident shows Avi Shilon, a visiting professor for the school’s Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies, asking the students to leave as other students can be seen handing the flyers back.
“This is a civil rights violation,” one of the students said. “We’re trying to learn.”
One of the protesters begins reading from a script. “We are going to give you an inside scoop into Columbia University’s normalization of genocide.”
Baker, who is a Middle Eastern History student at the school, told The Washington Free Beacon that the incident left him “extremely disturbed.”
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One student in the class said that they were “extremely disturbed” by the incident. (@LishiBaker on X)
“Not only am I paying a lot of money to be here, but I actually want to engage in the class, and it’s really frustrating when there’s students at this school who don’t care about learning, don’t care about class, and are intentionally disruptive and intimidating inside of a classroom,” he added.
Shilon told the outlet that he was torn between his desire to “protect [his] students” but did not “want to ignite the protesters too much.”
Anti-Israel protesters demonstrate outside Columbia University on Tuesday, Sep. 3, in New York City. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
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