Columbia University—the alma mater of Patrick Buchanan, of all people—has done it again. Not in quantum physics, literature, or even an innovation as groundbreaking as TikTok dance analysis. No, this time, they’ve outdone themselves in producing the most entitled, historically illiterate, masked-up radicals who seem to think Hamas recruitment flyers count as their senior thesis.

And just when you thought the campus couldn’t get any more unhinged, it turns out Columbia activists have escalated from glorifying terrorism to sabotaging the university’s sewage system—dumping cement into the pipes to cause as much destruction as possible. If that isn’t a metaphor for their movement, I don’t know what is.

One of the earlier spectacles involved four of Columbia’s masked revolutionaries—not exactly your grandparents’ Marx Brothers—storming into a History of Modern Israel class. Their mission? Hand out anti-Semitic flyers so asinine they could have been produced in Hebron’s most feverish propaganda workshops.

Of course, Columbia’s hiring decisions make this whole episode even more absurd. The university already employs Joseph Massad, a professor who insists that Jews aren’t the descendants of ancient Hebrews—a claim so detached from reality it should qualify as academic malpractice. Massad praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack as an “astonishing” and “awesome” military operation while referring to Israelis as “cruel colonizers.” Yet, rather than distancing itself from this rhetoric, Columbia decided Massad was the perfect choice to teach a course on Zionism.

If the goal were to draw more scrutiny for fostering an environment hostile to Jewish students and faculty, Columbia would undoubtedly succeed. The selection of a professor who glorifies terrorism to........

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