No, Columbia Isn’t Complicit in ‘Genocide’

The comical self-aggrandizement of the student protesters

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Protestors link arms to barricade themselves outside Hamilton Hall at Columbia University as students expand a protest encampment in support of Palestinians, in New York City, April 30, 2024.

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As Morningside Heights goes, so goes the Levant.

This is the childishly self-dramatizing conceit that’s been driving the pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University, with similar ideas playing into protests elsewhere.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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