A hate-fueled revolutionary manifesto that hyperlinks Columbia College’s pro-terror protests to heralded “anti-colonial” actions is circulating on the college, bolstering claims of outdoor agitators there.
The six-page “Nationwide Liberation Struggles’’ proclamation was discovered left behind in a lab class on the embattled Ivy League establishment, in keeping with a Jewish scholar who obtained a duplicate of the missive.
“This manifesto associating Jews with all of the world’s ills could be an amusing parody if it weren’t fueling the lethal purpose of destroying the Jewish state and returning Jews in every single place to a dispossessed, defenseless individuals obtainable for abuse and scapegoating because the temper arises,” mentioned Rory Lancman, senior counsel on the Brandeis Heart For Human Rights Underneath Legislation, a Columbia Legislation Faculty grad and a former New York Metropolis councilman.
The doc strengthens claims by New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams and others that outdoors “agitators” have influenced and even infiltrated teams of pro-terror protesters on the Higher Manhattan college and different faculty campuses.
An anti-Israel mob launched an unlawful takeover of an educational constructing at Columbia earlier this month, forcing cops in riot gear to storm the positioning to roust and arrest them.
“The scholars of Columbia are organizing their energy to demand the college divest from all firms profiting off the Israel occupation of Palestine, to finish all tutorial affiliations with Israel, and to finish Columbia’s complicity with the Zionist challenge,” the manifesto begins out.
The missive emphasizes the purpose to broaden college students’ minds “past the college” and be part of “the bigger wrestle for the liberation of all of the oppressed individuals in every single place.
“How is the scholar motion engaged within the bigger anti-imperialist and internationalist motion within the U.S. and the world” the doc says.
The communist manifesto solely inflames antisemitism, Lancman mentioned.
“The anti-Israel protests at Columbia and elsewhere are a part of the worldwide antisemitism motion, not merely ideologically however logistically and operationally,” he advised The Put up.
The US and Israel and “The West” are painted as oppressors within the manifesto, whereas rights-restrictive Cuba and Vietnam are revolutionary fashions to emulate.
Laborious-line, freedom-denying China and North Korea get a cross.
Liberation struggles are also touted for blacks within the US and the downtrodden in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the oppressed Ukranians’ quest for freedom doesn’t make the “liberation” reduce within the pamphlet.
“The individuals of Palestine, the scholars on this campus, and oppressed individuals in every single place teaches us that we are able to combat for one more lifestyle, to wrestle for a brand new world to be born,” the doc says.
The US even will get blamed for the COVID-19 outbreak.
“The neglect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the dying of George Floyd and rising anti-Black violence, and the unconditional assist for Israel’s genocide in Gaza exhibits us that, at each flip, at each disaster, the U.S. and different western international locations will alway put their pursuits first,’’ the doc says.
There’s an odd reference to North Korea, thought-about the harshest communist regime on the earth.
“We are able to see that the employees and college students within the U.S. have extra in widespread with the individuals of Palestine, Sudan, Korea and India than with the elite of Washington, New York, London and Tel Aviv,” the doc says.
The manifesto applauds the unfold of communism in Vietnam and Cuba — backed on the time by China and the previous Soviet Union — whereas excoriating the US.
New York State Republican Celebration Chairman Ed Cox mentioned the manifesto is proof that the communists and the anti-American onerous left are organizing and exploiting the anti-Israel campus protests.
“These are the Marxist-Leninists who’re the agitators stoking the fires at Columbia and different campuses. I’m not shocked. They’ve carried out this all through historical past,” Cox mentioned.
“They will have an effect on gullible college students,” he mentioned. “They don’t seem to be American. They’re anti-American.”
A Columbia College rep declined remark.
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