Columbia University’s radical anti-Israel group seeks ‘total eradication of Western civilization’

Anti-Israel radicals at Columbia University are pushing for the “total eradication of Western Civilization” — and threatening even more extreme tactics to accomplish their twisted goal until the “empire crumbles.”

Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of 116 student groups at the Ivy League School whose members set up encampments on the Manhattan campus and stormed Hamilton Hall this past spring, made the explosive claim after “comrades” in Bangladesh ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following weeks of bloody anti-government protests.

“We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization,” the group wrote in an Aug. 7 Instagram post. “We stand in full solidarity with every movement for liberation in the Global South.”

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The chaotic demonstrations in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, initially sparked by student protesters opposing government job quotas, have since fueled mob violence targeting Hindu minorities, who traditionally supported Hasina’s now-collapsed Awami League party.

“As the movement for Palestine faces draconian censorship and counter-insurgency in the [United] States, we must learn from our comrades in Bangladesh and continue to escalate until the empire crumbles,” wrote the Columbia student coalition, which has demanded the university divest from all companies with business ties to Israel.

The scorched-earth social media post was attributed to the “militants of Hind’s Hall,” referring to Columbia’s historic Hamilton Hall, which a mob of protesters briefly seized on April 30 and renamed in honor of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl killed in the Israel-Hamas war named Hind Rajab.

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James J. Valentini, a former dean of Columbia College and vice president for undergraduate education, said the school shouldn’t treat the students’ declarations as hollow threats.

“The university needs to be prepared for a serious challenge,” Valentini said.

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Columbia announced it would once again restrict access to its Manhattan campus only to staff and students ahead of the upcoming school year starting Sept. 3 — and the potential return of the riotous anti-Israel protests.

The tumult on Columbia’s campus this spring drove the school’s embattled president Minouche Shafik to resign Wednesday , following months of calls for her ouster by groups who championed and criticized the protests.

Columbia and CUAD did not respond to a request for comment.

With Post wires

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