Columbia University professor says anti-Israel protests are really about this 1 thing

A Columbia University professor tells Fox News Digital that nan anti-Israel demonstrations unfolding connected nan Ivy League field astatine nan extremity of nan time are nary longer astir nan Jewish State aliases Palestinians, but astir "whether mob unit tin bring our awesome assemblage to a halt." 

Law professor Joshua Mitts said Tuesday aft a group of agitators invaded Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, shattering windows and barricading doors utilizing tables and chairs. 

"When you person a group of students – it’s really a mini group, I don’t judge moreover nan mostly of protesters support things for illustration this – erstwhile you person a mini group that is committed to destroying spot and shutting down field life, that is nan infinitesimal that we, nan faculty, request to guidelines down nan management and opportunity ‘it's clip to reconstruct order, it is clip to bring backmost nan calm, world situation that Columbia stands for,’" Mitts told Fox News Digital. 

"And if you were concerned astir cracking down connected serene protesters, I dream nan events of this greeting person convinced you that location is astatine slightest a group retired location who are not willing successful serene protests astatine all," he added. 

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Protesters motion from a model of Hamilton Hall aft barricading themselves wrong nan building astatine Columbia University early Tuesday. (Reuters/Caitlin Ochs)

Mitts is 1 of nan now much than 2,000 Columbia alumni, module members and parents of students that person signed a statement calling connected President Minouche Shafik to ace down connected antisemitism and reconstruct safety. 

"We understand that she whitethorn beryllium constrained by module guidance to calling nan constabulary aft what happened almost 2 weeks ago," Mitts said, referencing a recent activity of arrests by nan NYPD. "But astatine nan extremity of time I deliberation we person to inquire ourselves ‘are we serving our students by allowing this benignant of chaos and chaos to devour our campus?’ It mightiness beryllium hard, but we person to turn up, we person to reconstruct bid to campus." 

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Members of an anti-Israel mob collapsed into Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning.  (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

"At nan extremity of nan time this isn’t really astir Israel aliases Palestine, it’s astir whether mob unit tin bring our awesome assemblage to a halt," Mitts added. 

Mitts told Fox News Digital that nan "antisemitism connected field has been horrifying" and that "The mobility I would inquire nan protesters is what is really your goal? If your extremity is to thief nan Palestinians, past let's activity together to execute that goal." 

A personnel of nan attraction unit confronted nan protesters aft he claimed he was held hostage wrong Hamilton Hall connected Tuesday, April 30, 2024, successful New York City.  (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

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"While nan constabulary coming onto field is simply a achy infinitesimal successful Columbia’s history, nan replacement that we are seeing correct now, buildings being taken over, windows smashed, Jewish students fearing for their information – this is not an replacement that is sustainable for our community," he besides said.