Activists with Students for Justice in Palestine at Columbia University in New York City distributed on Dec. 6 “The Columbia Intifada,” a four-page publication named after terrorist efforts to destroy Israel.
The group printed 1,000 copies of the anti-Israel newspaper, which contained a half-dozen anonymously written articles such as “Zionist Peace Means Palestinian Blood” and “The Myth of the Two-State Solution.”
The newspaper also included instructions for “wheatpasting,” a technique for posting anti-Israel banners in public spaces.
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) called the student publication “outrageous,” urging government action should Columbia fail to counter campus Jew-hatred.
“If Columbia cannot protect Jewish students on their campus, they should lose federal funding and have their tax-exempt status revoked,” Lawler wrote on X. “And for those students here on a visa engaged in an ‘intifada’ against American students of the Jewish faith? Deport them.”
Columbia University temporarily suspended the campus SJP chapter in November 2023 after the group organized an unauthorized student protest of Israel following the Hamas-led terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.
A representative for Columbia told the New York Post that the university had begun an investigation into the incident.
“Using the Columbia name for a publication that glorifies violence and makes individuals in our community feel targeted in any way is a breach of our values,” the spokesperson said.
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the ADL, called the newspaper “beyond offensive.”
“It’s a provocation. It’s an incitement,” he wrote on X. “It’s a not-so-veiled threat against Jewish and Israeli students. Columbia can’t just condemn–the administration must hold the culprits accountable.”
