Leftists have gone from “punch a Nazi” to “kill a Jew” in just a couple of years.
A few days after the president of Portland State University bent to student and faculty pressure and stopped all grants coming from the Boeing Co., the campus has been closed on Tuesday, “due to the ongoing incident at the library,” the university said on X/Twitter. The incident was widespread vandalism and occupation of buildings.
Pro-Hamas rioters spray-painted and broke into the university’s library Monday night, the same night that rioters took over a major building at Columbia University in New York and held three janitors hostage, barricading the doors from both within and without the building.
On Monday night, Mayor Ted Wheeler, Portland police chief Bob Day, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt, and PSU president Ann Cudd — the liberals squad that runs Portland — tried to encourage the occupiers to leave peacefully. But the property damage, including spray painted buildings and fixtures, increased, along with the intimidation to Jewish people of the community.
Democrats and their enablers across college and university campuses are engaging in a coordinated event that has eerie similarity to the notorious Kristallnacht “night of broken glass” of 1938 Nazi Germany, when Nazi supporters, including Hitler Youth, smashed the windows of Jewish businesses, creating terror. Nazi treatment of Jews led to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel on May 14, 1948.
“Universities are set up to explore the competition of ideas, and that’s a noble purpose, but when people engage in acts of violence and destruction, that is no longer peaceful behavior, that is criminal activity,” Mayor Wheeler said late Monday night during a press conference at the Portland Police Central Precinct. “City, county, police, prosecutors — we are all unified. We will not allow acts of violence to carry the day in our city.”
In fact, district attorney Schmidt has a catch-and-release policy for criminals in the city, which has been increase riddled with violence, drugs, homelessness, and is a hotbed of anarchism and political violence.
Riots and demonstrations, including building occupations and violence against Jewish members of the communities, have rapidly escalated on campuses across the country.
After midnight in New York, pro-Hamas rioting students and faculty broke windows, barricaded doors and occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University overnight. The riot came after school officials did not bend to the demands to divest all ties with Israel, including invested assets of the university.
But in Portland, the university president had already ceded to the demands to reject grants from Boeing, because of Boeing’s manufacture of anti-missile technology used by Israel against its aggressors in the region, including Hamas and Iran. It wasn’t enough. The concession by President Cudd did not deter the rioters on Tuesday.
