Things are really ramping up with the student protests are these various univeristies. Columbia, where it all started, is ground zero. The Independent: Columbia University faculty members are staging a demonstration in support of student pro-Palestine protestors as a rabbi warns Jewish students to leave campus. Students at Columbia ramped up pro-Palestinian protests and encampments last week after school officials testified before Congress about potential antisemitism on their campus. A rabbi affiliated with the school has also told a group of nearly 300 Jewish students to go home — meanwhile, Columbia/Barnard Hillel said they do not believe Jewish students should leave campus. The messages came ahead of Passover, which began Monday. The New York Police Department arrested some 100 students last week after the university’s president requested they respond. Police Chief John Chell later noted that the students who were arrested “were peaceful,” per the Columbia Spectator. Now, faculty have staged a walkout protesting the arrest of student protesters. The school moved classes online on Monday. The weight of that last sentence is not really being acknowledged in the mainstream media. They moved the classes online because they shut down the university, effectively declaring a state of emergency. They banned a Jewish faculty member because they said they didn’t have the resources to ensure his safety. New York Post: A Jewish Columbia University professor who has been a vocal critic of the administration’s response to the ongoing anti-Israel student protests on Monday said he was barred from its main campus. Israel-born Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School and an outspoken supporter of the Jewish state, said that when he swiped his key card at the school’s Morningside Heights campus, it read “deactivated.” He said administrators told him they banned him for campus because they could not ensure his safety. Shai Davidai Many of the demonstrators who arrived to show solidarity with Columbia’s Jewish community were also turned away at the gates of the Ivy Leave school — though some with active Columbia IDs were allowed in. … Davidai’s rejection from the campus of his own university prompted a crowd of pro-Israel protesters to shout, “Let him in!” and “Shame!” “They are not letting me on main campus,” he told a crowd of pro-Israel rallies at the school’s gate. There is no reason to believe this is going to slow down any time soon. It’s starting now because the weather broke. I don’t see any reason it would stop until either it gets cold again, or Israel stops their wars. Neither of those things is going to happen soon. So are these universities all just going to lockdown, because they can’t respond to the demands of the students? Or will the cops get way more aggressive, and go full Kent State on the kids? At Kent State, a college in Ohio, the National Guard was sent in in 1970 to put down a protest against the Vietnam war. The brave soldiers (heroes, really) opened fire on the kids, killing four and injuring nine. The situation was very similar, or nearly identical, to what is going on now at Columbia and elsewhere. (The shootings were in May,