Columbia professor says protesters 'being treated like terrorists' as NYPD makes arrests on campus
Columbia University Professor Marianne Hirsch expressed her disappointment with the university's decision to authorize the NYPD to go on campus amid ongoing protests: "I think they're being treated like terrorists rather than as our students who we care for."
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I see why columbia university has been such a mess
DEI = die
This faculty member is part of the problem if she does not see the severity of the situation. Mediation does not work with terrorists.
Key is cease fires， not students
@@mimicheng7501 You mean protect Hamas Not even a word from any of them about the hostages.
Children being taught and lead by other children.
She? Hard to tell.
Breaking into a building is trespassing, criminal mischief, and possibily disorderly conduct. It’s called breaking the law, and not as she says “being treated like terrorist” that’s just hyperbole. People that break the law, get treated like criminals . Enjoy the consequences of your actions
I remember US Politicians supported the Hong Kong protesters back then, when they are burning down shops, facilities and even burning people with different opinions alive, citing democracy and freedom of speech. The protests in Columbia University and other universities are largely peaceful, much more peaceful than HK protesters. By the same standard, why wouldn't US Politicians support the students?
Not to mention holding workers against their will during the blocking of the door.
All things rhat have been done in past protest. No one called the protest against the Vietnam war terrorist or the south Africa terrorist. Mean while Israel has committed yet another atrocity that every one had just turned the back on and ignored.
When the "students" block other students from going to classes and invade a classroom building, causing damage to windows & preventing people from escaping the building, that is no longer a simple protest, The "so called" protest become anarchy and must be stopped.
@michaelrunk5930 - Do you know how many Afgan and Iraqi civilians died as a result of America's invasion of those countries? Were there massive protests on the campuses of American universities when the American government decided to take action after the attacks on September 11th, 2001?! No?! If there were, then those protesters would have been very unpopular in the U.S., since the American government on September 11th, 2001 -- just like the Israeli government on October 7th, 2023 -- felt it necessary to take some sort of action. (FYI: 'meanwhile' and 'everyone' are each one word and not two words).
Professor??? Really?? spewing such vomit on media??? My Word!
Liberal arts professor...
Mind Begs the Question: - If a Semitic State - Engage in Genocide/Apartheid - To speak,act against it - Is Anti Semitic or Pro Freedom?
@@adamredwine774 says folks who barely crawled through college
@@anomad6314 and also me who studied art in France before getting degrees in physics and nuclear engineering.
@@adamredwine774 then you should know much better
Vandalism, ma’am is not acceptable.
The professor is wrong plain and simple.
Welcome to the New World Order.
They were different group of students!
This woman is out of touch…
How sad and disheartened the US citizens held hostage by Hamas must feel as they see fellow citizens protesting in favor of the hostage takers. Disgusting
Breaking the law isn't a negotiation. It's a criminal act.
Go say that to the illegal settlers in the West Bank, if you happen to think that laws apply to Israel.
This is US land. Go palestine
@@frankrivera939 Yes go to Palestine Hamas supporters.
Mind Begs the Question: - If a States policies are - Starvation,Death Camps,Pogroms,Gassing/White Phosphorus,Ethnic Cleansing,etc - Has the right to exist?
@@drtg101we7West Bank belongs to Israel. They captured it from Jordan during the 1967 war. It never belonged to Palis.
Breaking and entering needs to be negotiated ?
What ways? she cant even tell.
These are the people that are enabling lawlessness
Why is so hard to distinguish that most of student protesters are peaceful! We really don’t know the ones went into the Hamilton hall!
They are being treated like terrorists? Well yeah......
Second Columbia professor interview I’ve seen. They both don’t seem very knowledgeable about the subject. Expel trespassers and move on.
She's an English professor and she thinks she knows history, law as in New York City or New York State law, and international law. I wonder what else she thinks she knows everything about. Do you know what she teaches? She's teaching about colonization and post-colonialism and how bad the colonists were and that's the kind of books that they're teaching in universities in the English department these days. She is the problem because the whole problem is that this is oppressors versus the oppressed. She's probably never been to either Israel or Gaza and she thinks she knows everything. She thinks her opinion actually means anything. Professors like her are the problem.
I saw one interview with a Columbia professor and he actually seemed to nail the real issue here. He basically said that these kids are looking for a thrill and a way to feel self-righteous and it has been promoted through tiktok, and media in general
@@EricK-bw2mj he was probably paid by AIPAC
Negotiation?!? Really. Such a fool. God help our kids with people like this in charge!
And you are telling me that this measurable lady is a professor?!! waw she’s a joke!! she should resign immediately!! Negotiations for what?!!
Sounds like this professor’s tenure needs to be terminated
They're in lies the problem, It's very hard to fire someone with tenure
typical leftist professor at leftist schools.
why, what lie did she push?
Amen.
This professor is delusional…
No she’s not the students are winning the future is winning. Isreal will lose
Well those glasses alone are a crime 😂
No they’re not. The students will win they are the future. Isreal will lose
The students win they are the future. Isreal will lose
The students win they are the future. Isreal will lose
There are no negotiations with terror groups.
Exactly!!!
You think those students are terrorist?
@@keithprater2011 I do! Those students, not all are students but the majority are. That hate mongering mob, have taken over the university doing destruction of property, using violence, intimidation, fear, against Jews and anyone else that goes against them, to achieve their goals of forcing the university to do what they want!! 🇨🇦🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🫶
@@ItsAWonder-jz1nd who did the students terrorize? I get the isolated incident with the girl, outside of that can you honestly blanket such a divisive term to a bunch of students? The vast majority of them are protesting peacefully
@@ItsAWonder-jz1nd nice strawman you got going. You somehow managed to articulate an entire point without explaining how the students are terrorist. If pointing out that they didn’t allow someone to walk into a class or building as terrorism then that’s quite the perspective. Mlk and Malcolm x are terrorist by your definition
When a PH.D doesn’t make you intelligent.
No truer words, especially now that they give them out like candy
Especially when they all plagiarized
Never mistake education for intelligence.
BS is bulls**t, MS is more s**t, and PHD is piled higher and deeper.
You don't even know how to spell Ph.D.
The students have made the campus unsafe. She's complaining that the police were called in to quickly? She wanted more negotiation when the students clearly were doing so in bad faith? SHE IS NUTS AND SHOULD BE FIRED!!!
Not a word regarding the harassment towards Jewish students from protesters
Tragic...maybe they should break in and protest at her house. It's always fine when it doesn't affect you.
She is delusional, this was never going to end any other way. Pointless protest , unrealistic demands.
It’s obvious where the actual problem lays. These professors.
Indoctrination at its finest
They shout 'we are Hamas', what are they expecting?
What are expecting too
This professor will soon be called to the principals office.
yes to get an award
OH PLEASE LADY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH YOU GO TO SCHOOL TO LEARN NOT THIS CRAP THIS IS ANARCHY
The baby jihadists were literally starting to make moves out of Hamas' playbook.
😂
Further negotiation? What was there to negotiate?
She's in favor of negotiating with terrorists.
@@user-bb1vq5if7mthey are not terrorist they are students. We are not facist here. There actions are untenable for the university.
@@LoveableLincoln32how do you know they are all students? They have vandalized private property, threatened innocent students, and disrupted the flow of society. Multiple attempts have been made to peacefully disrupt the protest. Enough is enough.
The protesters are not there to negotiate. They're there to make a scene and feel righteous. The university could meet every one of their demands by noon tomorrow and they wouldn't move off. They'd raise a new list.
@@kenofken9458 Well said: "they want to feel righteous"
The protesters crossed the line
This faculty woman should be ashamed of herself.
Free hostages
We don’t negotiate with terrorists
This "Ph.D." makes me worry about US education. What a shame!
been like this for decades
Why can't they protest without encampments? You start to lose sympathy when you seek negative attention. It seems everyone is bad at P.R..
Because they're selfish and too lazy to put in the hard work. Everyone I mean.
Mind Begs the Question: - If policies of Starvation,Death Camps,Gas Chambers/White Phosphorus,Pogroms,Ethnic Cleansing,etc are repeated - Doesn't amount to Holocaust?
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings If you're a bad guest, do you not expect to be escorted out the door? Cognizant adults- and many small children, know how to follow expectations and rules of the land. These wildlings have the chance to free their minds and their shackles. They choose to remain indoctrinated and that makes any area they move through in danger of harm or destruction. That's unwelcome here.
"Mediation" with protesters shouting in your face??? What is she talking about
She is using Qator money
What is ENABLING for $200
You mean handicapping them and making them fruitless by not obeying the ten commandments like everyone else has to it's handicapping them and destroying them and their future.
They did negotiate...and they said no to divest...no means no
The Enemy Within. She is a prime example.
They are not being treated like terrorists. However, the students are protesting in support of terrorists, and this professor is surprised that they are being treated like terrorists?
They're absolutely are behaving as terrorists. Domestic terrorists.
If the students are acting like terrorist then do not expect people beliving the are a peaceful group. They are supporting Hamas then what you can expect.
Mind Begs the Question: - If USA/West Leadership - Arm,Bankroll a State whose policies are - Starvation,Death Camps,Gas Chambers/White Phosphorus,Pogroms,Ethnic Cleansing,etc - As complicit as Nazis for Holocaust,no?
Explain your definition of terrorism, please.
Mind Begs the Question: - Nelson Mandela stands example - Resisting an Apartheid State - Is Terrorism or Courageous?
The Columbia University faculty members whose opinions are worth listening to are the Professors of Law from the law school. They can explain the rights, liabilities, and culpabilities of the situation. Clearly the protestors--be they students or non-student agitators--are out of control. Who do they think they are? The rulers? And what all of these student and agitator groups do not understand is that the government of Israel does not give a damn what an American university thinks--nor even what the U.S. president thinks--when they are dealing with the hard realities of war.
Their law students will definitely ruin America one day.
It's not surprising that those who support terrorists are treated as such.
Why is she portraying police as some type of bad thing??? Wouldn't you want the police to ensure everyone's safety?? And then she says they are being treated like terrorists. Lady, that is hyperbole and saying that on national television perpetuates the problem. Say it as it is, they are being treated like unruly agitators.
They thought that they were invincible 😂😂. Loosers
How much you want to bet she’s a career academic?
Shameful students bringing down their own families and shaming themselves
So she supports Hamas and should put in jail.
Hamas is a terrorist organization, so they are enemies of the usa ..Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort
We don’t negotiate with terrorist. When the students became what they were protesting the negotiations were terminated.
She should be arrested for those glasses alone, it's a crime against fashion !
Yes becuase they are literally supporting them lol
She says it was "civil disobedience"??? Wasnt there crimes being committed professor??? Come on lady
She used the "civil disobedience" statement and in the same breath said people have been taking over buildings since 1968. I assume that it was wrong to take over buildings then too. And if I remember my history right, those types of actions brought police intervention as well. The difference may be that back then, the protestors didn't hide behind masks.
These students are not the voice of reason or conscience.
She is "Professor JOKE"
She's stupid they gave them two weeks and all they did was barricade and completely take over the school she needs to be fired
There are foreign hands which manipulate students in campus that is insane
Good to see a professor with a strong moral backbone. Universities have been coopted by corporate greed. They have become corrupted to their core.
Yes, its true. These students are more dangerous as compare terrorists. Shame on these students.
There are more outsiders than students in the protest.
Why give her any air time
Perhaps shes frightened of the students?
Obviously Universities have lowered their standards on who they hire as “professors.” Wow. What an ignoramus.
Eric Adams is seriously lame!
The protest is on behalf of the Hamas, so what does that make them? Terrorists or ignorant pawns? Not once did they denounce the Hamas or demand the entities who finance the Hamas be defunded or ended. Seems pretty clear who they are fighting (not peacefully protesting) for.
This literally speaks to the same brutality and inhumanity towards Arab Muslims in the Middle East. These students and professors speak truth, and they are brave put protesters, trying to save humanity.
Does education destroy common sense?
YES!
This professor wants more mediation and negotiation???? What world does she live in
These student protests got violent. They protest against war and violence and do it themselves. Gee! What a world.
I guess she forgot about Kent State.
Negotiation?
Is this professor alright??? Does she want more protests???
Insert your "mostly peaceful" meme here
The weight of words from college professors is seriously diminished these days. Thankfully
😂
Kid Gloves are for Kids not for 18+ adults.
Protesters in the 1960s didn't scream " we are the viet-cong " as Protesters today scream "we are Hamas ", big difference.
🤦 Hirsch's academic training is in fiction, and in this instance, her outlook on reality is fictional.
This lady is an angel don’t said lie and Propaganda
Shameful students
God help us in times of trouble 🙏🏿
Shameful students how dare they riot and create chaos like this wasting tax payers money.
Breaking the LAW !!!! It's OVER!!
WHAT ABOUT THE HOSTAGES??? How quickly they forget
Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck probably is a duck.
Free NYPD from AIPAC!!
Communist bot
The main mistake Shafik made was not calling the police in sooner. As far as demanding the university change their investments...get a grip! They don't have to disclose or change their business strategy for students. Who tf they think they are?
Speed? Are u kidding. I think these professors need to have their tenure revoked, if they have that and they need to look for other employment. Because I’m sure they sign a contract and I’m sure in someway she voided that contract.
Further negotiation? What does it mean? These kids didn't want to negotiate. She's a clown.
That is what they are because they are taking away the rights of others. Also, property damage is a crime.
This has gone way too far! It’s absolutely ridiculous!!! It’s about time ! Shut it down. You were told to stop this , and you didn’t. So please ! Negotiation? Sounds like a hostage negotiation! Which is exactly what was being done, holding cities hostage! Nonsense! You professors use them and put all this in their heads! You support it. What happened to college students learning ??? And higher education? Math, science, majors???? Ridiculous. This would have only gotten worse and you know it lady !
Fire this woman
Agreed with Professor; Brown University has reached an agreement with students.
She is clueless. Living in her bubble. She is afraid for her safety. The school and streets look a lot safer today.
Am I the only one who doesn't care about Israel or Palestine? America first
Yes you are. We all care about other lives. You can remain in your bubble.
@@renakmans3521 no the general public in the USA doesn't care..... We work, have kids, run our errands, etc... we actually live our damn lives and do not care about this. Keep blocking the streets and highways though and tell us we live in a bubble though clueless one.
In Berkeley, CA, those "very peaceful protesters" occupied a boarded up vacant historic building waiting for restoration and owned by UC Berkeley. The newly elected Berkeley city council member, a UCB student, whose election platform was down to "long live the intifada", sent the letter to UCB demanding that police officers who were sent to escort out squatters leave the building because it may collapse when they enter. This "intellectual" was OK with her friends hanging out the windows putting up posters "free Palestine = free world" in that building, but only police officers created danger.
Stop treating people like terrorist
How about Israelí students and other students that disagree with protesting ( majority of students) Were you protecting them? Were you being considered them?
I cannot believe what this woman is saying
Anti genocide supporters does not mean Hamas supporters.
Well, somebody called the police !
Of course they are being treated like terrorists... because they literally, publicly, say that they are terrorists.