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OPINION

Defund, De-Accredit, and Disarm Columbia University for Breeding Violence and Anti-American Extremism

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Columbia University is no longer an institution of higher learning—it is a national security threat.

This once-prestigious Ivy League university has become a sanctuary for antisemitism, violence, and radical anti-American extremism. The latest incident? A Columbia student-athlete has been arrested for allegedly throwing an unlit Molotov cocktail from his dorm room, according to police. 

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This is not a protest—it is an act of attempted domestic terrorism. And it is the final straw in a long, disturbing pattern of indoctrination and escalating violence on Columbia’s campus.

We must act now:

  • Pull all federal funding.

  • Revoke Columbia’s accreditation.

  • Strip its graduates of eligibility for federal security clearances.

  • Label its diploma for what it is—a scarlet letter of extremism.

Columbia has allowed masked mobs to overrun its campus, harass Jewish students, glorify terrorist groups, and call for the destruction of Israel—and a Marxist cultural revolution in the United States. And all of this is happening under the protection, and in many cases, the encouragement, of university leadership.

Protesters aren’t just burning Israeli flags—they’re burning American flags. They openly and proudly call for the end of America and the dismantling of capitalism. These are not peaceful demonstrations. These are declarations of war against the very country that funds this university.

Claire Shipman, Columbia’s third president since August, now presides over a campus where:

  • Molotov cocktails are thrown from dorm windows.

  • Terrorist sympathizers like Mahmoud Khalil reside in university housing.

  • Professors incite radical protests instead of promoting academic rigor.

  • Jewish students flee in fear, while violent agitators are shielded.

When the Trump administration issued a federal directive banning face coverings during protests for public safety, Acting President Katrina Armstrong defied it. She lied to the federal government while privately telling faculty the mask ban wouldn’t be enforced—protecting the identities of violent extremists.

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Even Columbia’s own donors are walking away in disgust:

  • Leon Cooperman pulled $50 million in donations.

  • Mortimer Zuckerman ended a $200 million commitment.

  • Robert Kraft redirected his support to Yeshiva University.

  • Bill Ackman compared Columbia’s Hamas apologists to KKK sympathizers.

This is no longer about free speech. It's about national security.  Columbia is not a campus—it is an incubator for extremism, antisemitism, and anarchy.

The federal government must take immediate action:

Defund. De-accredit. Disarm.

Before more students are radicalized, more violence erupts, and more lives are endangered.

This is not education. This is indoctrination. And it must end—now.

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