Columbia to acquiesce to Trump administration’s demands amid federal funding threats
Columbia Spectator buries the lede in paragraphs five and six:
“According to the new list of actions, the University will also adopt a new definition of antisemitism based on recommendations from the University’s Task Force on Antisemitism in August 2024.
The August definition describes antisemitism as “prejudice, discrimination, hate, or violence directed at Jews, including Jewish Israelis” and notes that antisemitism can manifest in many ways, such as “exclusion or discrimination based on Jewish identity or ancestry or real or perceived ties to Israel; and certain double standards applied to Israel.”
[Vague yet chillingly precise.]
“The demands stipulated that the University… implement a ban on masks ‘intended to conceal identity or intimidate others.’”
[How about masks intended to protect students exercising their Constitutionally-protected right to free speech from unlawful detention and deportation?]
“Our response to the government agencies outlines the substantive work we’ve been doing over the last academic year to advance our mission…[to] make every student, faculty, and staff member safe and welcome on our campus,” Armstrong wrote in the Friday email.
[Except to the aforementioned students who risk criminal sanctions for condemning genocide. How long will Mahmoud Khalil have had to wait to be seen by an attorney?]
Previous motto of Columbia University—
“In Lumine Tuo Videbimus Lumen,” translates to “In your light we see the light” and is a Latin translation of Psalm 36:9 from the Hebrew book of Psalms.”
Proposed new motto—
Quia ecce tenebrae operient terram et caligo populos super te autem orietur Dominus et gloria eius in te videbitur“
The phrase ‘for behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people’ from Isaiah 60:2 describes a time of spiritual and moral decay, where darkness and ignorance will overshadow the world….”
Connect the Dots 101 
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