May 16, 2025
Last week, Columbia University Public Safety trapped students inside Butler Library after they established the Basel Al-Araj Popular University. Students launched the university to "exert sustained pressure on university administrators to divest from the Zionist entity," as CUAD explained in a statement.
After trapping them inside for hours and assaulting multiple students, CU Public Safety invited the NYPD on to campus, who sent multiple protesters to the hospital, arrested over 80 students, and held them for 14 hours.
To this we say: ALL COPS ARE BASTARDS. In retaliation for their flagrant assault last week, we smashed CU Public Safety's windows and sprayed ACAB on the building's facade. Even though there were piggies inside at the time, and the area quickly swarmed with NYPD afterwards, they were powerless to catch us.
We are putting the pigs on notice! Whether you wear the NYPD uniform, CU Public Safety, or any of the other fascist police agencies in this city who have brutalized Palestine solidarity protesters in the past 20 months, we are coming for you next. Anyone who enacts state violence on our movement will pay a high price.
Long live the student intifada! Keep fighting on campus, in the community, and everywhere we face fascist zionist oppression. We got your back.