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Behind the Aegis

(56,104 posts)
Thu Jan 30, 2025, 04:24 PM Jan 2025

Columbia anti-Israel protesters post 'anonymous' video of activists blocking campus sewage lines

Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University in New York City post a video of activists vandalizing the campus by spraying red paint on a building and blocking campus sewage lines.

Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a coalition of student groups led by the campus branches of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, posts the video showing a vandal dousing Columbia’s Kravis Hall with red paint.

The video also shows what appears to be a row of blocked toilets. Text accompanying the post says the bathroom is at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.

“We attacked two targets at Columbia University,” the post says.

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Columbia anti-Israel protesters post 'anonymous' video of activists blocking campus sewage lines (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jan 2025 OP
Hearts and minds. RandySF Jan 2025 #1
This helps babies in Gaza....how? Coventina Jan 2025 #2
Some meta point about what it's like to live without indoor plumbing EdmondDantes_ Jan 2025 #12
They put cement in those toilets Sundance1220 Jan 2025 #3
Apparently, deportation is part of Trump's plan Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2025 #8
So I agree with him on one thing Sundance1220 Jan 2025 #9
That will help a lot. yardwork Jan 2025 #4
Good job y'all, MarineCombatEngineer Jan 2025 #5
Columbia protesters excel at creating extra work for facilities staff. yardwork Jan 2025 #6
This is a point that is missed. Behind the Aegis Jan 2025 #7
Hopefully they Rebl2 Jan 2025 #11
Columbia surely has cameras Mountainguy Jan 2025 #10

EdmondDantes_

(1,776 posts)
12. Some meta point about what it's like to live without indoor plumbing
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 12:03 PM
Jan 2025

Or more likely just stupid destructive behavior that has no real point other than being easy to do with little skills or tools.

yardwork

(69,352 posts)
6. Columbia protesters excel at creating extra work for facilities staff.
Thu Jan 30, 2025, 04:44 PM
Jan 2025

I recall that they literally kidnapped housekeeping staff last year, prevented them from leaving a building to go home at the end of the day.

Now this. All this damage has to be cleaned up by somebody. Those people are low-wage facilities staff, often ethnic minorities.

Good job, spoiled rich kids.

Behind the Aegis

(56,104 posts)
7. This is a point that is missed.
Thu Jan 30, 2025, 09:39 PM
Jan 2025

For all these "protests", the amount of work it creates on the working class, demonstrates a general lack of awareness.

 

Mountainguy

(2,145 posts)
10. Columbia surely has cameras
Fri Jan 31, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jan 2025

And some type of door security.

Shouldn't be that hard to id these fools and get rid of them.

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