Mick Hartley

That X audio of the UCLA phone call had some comments comparing the barring of Jewish students to segregation in the South in the 1950s, when Eisenhower sent the national guard in to protect black children.

Here's Ari Allyn-Feuer at Fathom making the same comparison, this time on the Columbia situation:

If Columbia in fact calls in law enforcement to its campus, and they in fact clear out the Palestine encampment on its lawn and restore order to the campus, so that in-person classes can resume and its graduation ceremony can take place, what previous event from US history will this most resemble?

The national guard clearing segregationist protesters to allow the Little Rock Nine to attend Little Rock Central High School on 23 September 1957.

I do not mean this metaphorically, I mean that these two events, in 1957 and 2024, will be literally the same type of event: law enforcement removing a mob trying to segregate a school.

The encampment now operating on and around Columbia’s campus is literally a movement to segregate Columbia by removing Israelis and other Jews.

Within Our Lifetime and Students for Justice in Palestine, organisers of this camp and protests, state explicitly and in writing that they support an ‘anti-normalisation’ effort that would see ‘Zionists,’ including Jewish Israelis in general, marginalised from every place antizionists are capable of marginalising them, and explicitly Columbia….

"Zionists" instead of "Jews" isn't fooling anyone.

Update: the police have now cleared Columbia's Hamilton Hall and made a number of arrests.