The apartment building of Columbia University’s chief operating officer was vandalized by anti-Israel activists on Thursday, and included red paint, live crickets and … mealworms.
Red triangles, which allegedly represent “symbols used by terrorists to mark targets they want to take out,” were scrawled on Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway’s residence, the New York Daily News reports.
According to the Columbia Spectator, the triangles had been utilized by Germany’s Nazi regime “to identify political prisoners in concentration camps.”
A letter left by the activists asked Holloway “Did you enjoy our present? Did it make you uncomfortable? Whatever you felt was incomparable to the pain you made Columbia students feel when you signed off on their brutalization because they stood against the genocide of the Palestinians.”
The letter further accused Holloway of leaving “a trail of violence and destruction,” standing by as the NYPD “beat students,” and wanting to “expel the very same students [he] brutalized and imprisoned.”
A photoshopped “wanted” image of Holloway (pictured) also was posted and portrayed the administrator with “horns on his head” behind bars along with the caption “WANTED FOR CRIMES AGAINST PALESTINE, STUDENTS, AND LACK OF MORALS,” the New York Post reports.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul tweeted on X that “Hateful, antisemitic displays like this will not be tolerated in New York, and the perpetrators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” She said the state police hate crimes task force would be available to assist in the vandalism investigation.
In a statement to the Columbia Spectator, a university spokesperson said “Columbia unequivocally condemns vandalism, threats, and personal attacks. Anyone engaging in such activity will be reported to law enforcement and face appropriate discipline. Every member of our community deserves to feel safe, valued, and able to thrive.”
Columbia’s anti-Israel activists are planning to pick up where they left off in the coming school year, The Hill reports. “We’ve been working all this summer on our plans,” said Columbia University Apartheid Divest’s Mahmoud Khalil. “What we will see [is] the students will continue their activism, will continue doing what they’ve done in conventional and unconventional ways.”
Khalil said that use of encampments “is now our new base,” and that Columbia “should think really, really, really hard about about meeting our demands.”
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