Columbia thugs’ violent library break-in: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Anti-Israel thugs storming a Columbia University library, injuring two security officers.
The media need to get actual concerning the so-called pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University and start calling them what they’re: anti-Israel anarchists (“Chaos at Ivy library,” May 8).
If these overtly disruptive hooligans are actually devoted to what they contemplate a noble trigger, then they definitely ought to have the braveness to take away their foolish face masks.
As for his or her passé “Free Palestine!” slogan, why not go for broke and shout what’s actually buzzing of their brains?
“Kill the Jews,” in my view, can be the obvious alternative.
Charles Winokoor
Fall River, Mass.
These aren’t peaceable protesters, however brain-dead idiots who’ve no ethical compass and no information of historical past.
J6, because it has been referred to as, was a small incursion that lasted a few hours.
Oct. 7 and the following period have been more of an rebellion.
Where are the Democrats who keep speaking about democracy?
Do former President Joe Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris have something to say?
It’s time to put an finish to this insanity.
Sylvia Kane
Brooklyn
Again, protesters are breaking the law by storming the Columbia University library.
They ought to all be arrested then made to stand trial in court docket.
It’s about time lawbreakers stop interfering with younger people who need to get an training.
No surprise universities are dropping federal grants.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
We need a new tactical strategy to coping with these unrelenting protesters.
It’s time to publicly disgrace the culprits and hooligans.
They need to be recognized with their standing as a scholar or as outdoors provocateurs. Are they repeating offenders?
Who is funding these instigators?
We need their names printed within the media; their immigration visa standing must be uncovered.
Enough with hiding behind their masks. When these protesters turn out to be recognized, then and solely then, will it influence the state of affairs.
Ronald Frank
West Orange, NJ
The Columbia University pro-Hamas violent trespassers on the library are Joseph Goebbels brown-shirt wannabes and nothing more.
Richard Sherman
Margate, Fla.
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The Issue: An interview with creator Jason Riley about his new guide “The Affirmative Action Myth.”
I discovered it significantly fascinating how Jason Riley traced the arc of enchancment in, after which stark slowdown of, black societal development and achievement within the mid-Twentieth century (“Special treatment impedes progress,” Kelly Jane Torrance, May 7).
But I don’t suppose he hits laborious enough at a evident trigger of it: the Democratic Party as a entire.
Although Riley focuses on the municipal degree of malfeasance, he didn’t account for the state and national politicians during this period.
They merely take the black vote with no consideration after which ignore the wants of the neighborhood.
As a child growing up in New York City, working within the South Bronx within the Eighties, I believed: Who speaks for these people?
The reply was: no one.
Warren Nitti
Edgewater, NJ
I like that Jason Riley underscores the significance of attitudes and behaviors impacting unequal outcomes.
Ignoring attitudes and behaviors, and the alternatives influenced by them, overlooks many of the basis causes of unequal outcomes.
Choices have penalties and never all engender equality.
It’s about time we enact some accountability for our own outcomes.
Eileen Corr
Brewster, Mass.
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