Columbia protester asked for 'humanitarian aid' for Hamilton Hall occupiers so they don't 'die of dehydration and starvation'



A Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader held a press conference Tuesday during which she expressed her desire that students occupying Hamilton Hall get "humanitarian aid" — you know, so they don't "die of dehydration and starvation."

While New York City police entered the building Tuesday night and made arrests, getting an earful and eyeful of this protest leader and her wish list for her ultra-privileged, radical peers is still quite informative.

Some might even say entertaining:

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A reporter asked her, "Why should the university be obligated to provide food to people who've taken over a building?"

She replied, "Well, first of all, we're saying that they're obligated to provide food to students who pay for a meal plan here."

That's right. Meal plan.

The reporter continued: "You mentioned that there was a request that food and water be brought in."

If you didn't think the protest leader — garbed in the familiar keffiyeh scarf that's pretty much required clothing for anti-Israel college students — lacked self-awareness before, she lets it all hang out from here on in.

"To allow it to be brought in," she said. "I mean, well, I guess it's ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students. Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill even if they disagree with you? If the answer is no, then you should allow basic — I mean, it's crazy to say because we are on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're asking for. Like, could people please have a glass of water?"

The reporter, refreshingly, wasn't buying it.

"But they did put themselves ... very deliberately in that situation, in that position, so it seems like you're sort of saying, 'We wanna be revolutionaries, we wanna take over this building — now would you please bring us food and water?'"

The protest leader replied, "Nobody's asking them to bring anything. We're asking them to not violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid."

Another reporter inquired if Columbia was preventing food from getting to the protesters, and the protest leader replied, "We are looking for a commitment from them that they will not stop it. ... I don't know to what extent it has been attempted, but we're looking for a commitment."

Anything else?

In response to the Post Millennial's video of the protest leader, journalist Jordan Schachtel added on X that "I did a quick search and found that this lady, who refused to reveal her name, is named Johannah King-Slutzky. She is a paid instructor & PhD candidate at Columbia studying 'theories of the imagination & poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens.' No, I'm not making this up."

The Post Millennial reported that King-Slutsky had been listed on Columbia's website as a Ph.D. student on Tuesday morning, but the page was missing by Tuesday evening. The outlet said King-Slutsky's biography read, "My dissertation is on fantasies of limitless energy in the transatlantic Romantic imagination from 1760-1860. My goal is to write a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism. I am particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination. Prior to joining Columbia, I worked as a political strategist for leftist and progressive causes and remain active in the higher education labor movement."

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King-Slutsky has a long history of activism. In January, she attended an event where the head of the UAW was speaking. "Johannah King-Slutzky, a Columbia University graduate student and member of the student workers union within the UAW, was one of several attendees who chanted 'ceasefire now' during Fain’s afternoon speech Monday. The union called for a ceasefire in Gaza in December," WHYY reported.

“Right now he’s done nothing to earn my vote,” WHYY reported King-Slutzky as saying, because “he has not acted with urgency to stop the genocide in Gaza.”

In 2021, she participated in a campus strike of graduate student workers.

This story has been updated.

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NYPD breach occupied Columbia University building and arrest around 100 Hamas-endorsed students



Pro-Hamas students at Columbia University received a well-earned civics lesson Tuesday evening from New York City's finest.

Hamas-endorsed radicals illegally camped outside Columbia University for more than a week, regurgitating genocidal rhetoric and demanding the institution divest from Israel. The administration set multiple deadlines that went unheeded, then finally gave the radicals an ultimatum Monday: Leave the encampment by 2 p.m. or face suspension. This ultimatum also fell on deaf ears.

The radicals opted instead to seize the university's Hamilton Hall just as their leftist forebears had 58 years earlier in protest of America's military action against mass-murdering communists in southeast Asia.

Minouche Shafik, the president of the university, noted in a Wednesday letter to the New York Police Department that the illegal occupation was made possible by an individual who "hid in the building until after it closed and let the other individuals in."

The keffiyeh-adorned radicals reportedly ransacked the interior — busting doors and windows, destroying furniture and blockading entrances — while representatives of the anti-Israel radicals issued demands outside, suggesting that keeping the hall's illegal occupiers' stomachs from grumbling was the university's responsibility and amounted to "basic humanitarian aid."

Shafik ultimately pleaded for the NYPD to intervene, stressing that the "takeover of Hamilton Hall and the continued encampments raise serious safety concerns for the individuals involved and the entire community." Shafik also suggested that "the actions of these individuals are unfortunately escalating."

Around 6 p.m., Mayor Eric Adams implored the radicals to "leave the area and to leave the area now." Adams suggested further that "professional outside agitators" had a hand in the illegal takeover.

The terrorist-supported radicals ignored the mayor's request just as they had ignored the university's earlier requests.

Tuesday, on the eve of leftists' beloved May Day, the NYPD obliged the university president to the chagrin of Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.).

Happening Now: Many more NYPD marching towards Columbia.
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#BREAKING Police MOVE IN TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Raid has begun.
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As police made their way to Hamilton Hall en masse, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine — among the student groups referred to as "ours" by the Gaza-based terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — called for escalations, writing, "ALL OUT TO COLUMBIA! DEFEND THE ENCAMPMENTS! FROM THE WALLS TO THE GATES, IT IS TIME TO ESCALATE! #Escalate4Gaza."

While the radicals prepared for the confrontation, Columbia faculty members preemptively denounced the police.

A statement attributed to the Columbia University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, shared online by leftist professor Joseph Howley, said, "NYPD presence in our neighborhood endangers our entire community. Armed police entering our campus places students and everyone else on campus at risk."

The university indicated in a statement obtained by WABC-TV that the NYPD arrived on campus around 9 p.m., which was crowded with leftists chanting anti-police and anti-Israel slogans.

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Police were initially unable to enter the building on account of the barricades. The New York Post reported that several leftists stood on the inside of the doorway taunting officers while fellow travelers outside chanted, "Pigs!"

Around 9:30 p.m., police drove their Mobile Adjustable Ramp System vehicle up to the building, affording a column of around 30 armored riot officers equipped with zip-tie handcuffs a second-story window into the building. Police successfully climbed into the building, then made quick work out of the radicals inside with the aid of four distraction devices, which apparently went off with a bang.

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According to the New York Times, at least 108 student radicals were arrested.

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In addition to dragging out the radicals who seized and vandalized Hamilton Hall, police also dealt with the anti-Israel encampment on the university's West Lawn, reported the Times.

Officers searched the hundreds of tents and flushed out the remaining radicals.

NYPD clash with Columbia protesters, making dozens of arrests and clearing the entire encampment in 2 hours. \n\nHundreds of officers in riot gear swiftly removed all of the students and protesters who had been encamped on the campus for 2 weeks. \n\nOver 100 arrests.
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Assistant Commissioner Carlos Nieves indicated that the "people that were in the encampment are now gone," reported the Post.

Protesters cheered on the blubbering arrestees as they were bused off campus.

Police reportedly indicated ahead of taking action Tuesday that the Hamilton Hall occupiers would be charged with third-degree burglary, trespassing, and criminal mischief. Those illegally camped outside would be slapped with trespassing and disorderly conduct charges.

Police clash started because a van filled with arrested students was exiting the perimeter.
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Following the successful counter-extremism operation, Shafik said in a statement, "We regret that protesters have chosen to escalate the situation through their actions. After the University learned overnight that Hamilton Hall had been occupied, vandalized, and blockaded, we were left with no choice. Columbia public safety personnel were forced out of the building, and a member of our facilities team was threatened. We will not risk the safety of our community or the potential for further escalation."

The university has requested that NYPD maintain a presence on campus until May 17 to "maintain order and ensure encampments are not reestablished."

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Pro-Palestinian protesters take over Columbia University academic building; officials close all school entry gates except one



Pro-Palestinian protesters overnight took over Columbia University's Hamilton Hall — an academic building that 1968 protesters occupied during civil rights and Vietnam War demonstrations — and school officials on Tuesday morning closed all campus entry gates except one, WNBC-TV reported.

What are the details?

Video showed protesters locking arms in front of the building and carrying furniture and metal barricades to it, the station said.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Image source: YouTube screenshot

“An autonomous group reclaimed Hind’s Hall, previously known as 'Hamilton Hall,' in honor of Hind Rajab, a martyr murdered at the hands of the genocidal Israeli state at the age of six years old,” CU Apartheid Divest posted on X early Tuesday, WNBC said.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

The building takeover occurred about 12 hours after a 2 p.m. Monday deadline set for the protesters to leave an encampment of about 120 tents or face suspension, the station reported.

New York City police on Tuesday told WNBC that officers are posted outside the campus in case Columbia officials request their help. A senior police official added to the station that the Hamilton Hall takeover constitutes property damage and maybe trespassing — but the university would have to file a complaint before the NYPD starts arresting protesters.

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According to a statement from the Public Safety Department, access to the Morningside campus is limited to students living in the residential buildings and employees who provide essential services, like dining, public safety and maintenance staff. There's just one access point into and out of campus — the 116th Street and Amsterdam gate.

All other campus entry points are closed.

A letter from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to the school community indicated that talks between campus officials and student representatives remained at a standstill, the station said.

WNBC said Columbia wants the tents gone and protesters to follow university policies as they peacefully protest; but students are refusing to leave the encampment and are demanding that Columbia divest from companies supporting Israel. Shafik said divestment isn't going to happen, the station added.

What is happening, WNBC added, are suspensions for deadline defiers — and suspended students won't be able to access school facilities, their IDs will be deactivated, and they won't be able to complete the spring semester. Columbia added that further punishments may include long-term suspensions and even expulsions.

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