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The campus group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) is holding an anti-Veterans Day protest today, saying they want to reclaim the day to celebrate their “martyrs.” Here’s the announcement they posted on Instagram yesterday.

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We are reclaiming Veterans Day for our martyrs as we refuse to honor the US War Machine. Come read a martyr’s story and plant a poppy in their memory. When the Zionist entity is working to destroy a people, to remember is to resist.

We must center the people who we are fighting for, and remember what we are pushing for: divestment at Columbia, and the total liberation of Palestinians. Columbia is complicit in the deaths of these martyrs through the endeavors it has invested its endowment in. Come learn, grieve, and be pushed to action.

In the face of a genocide, it is easy to move with urgency, but we must make sure to be intentional in our organizing. Join us as we center the very real and full lives of Palestinians (and others) being sieged and killed by the Zionist entity.

Eternal glory to all the martyrs.

By martyrs they mean everyone who has died in Gaza including the thousands of members of Hamas killed by Israel in the past year. They are literally celebrating Hamas on Veterans Day. This should be a shock. As I pointed out here, this group previously announced their support for Hamas and “armed resistance.”

Columbia currently has around 700 veterans enrolled at the school. They are planning their own demonstration for Veterans Day.

A group called Military Veterans of Columbia University posted on Facebook that it was planning a Veterans Day celebration for Monday around the corner from campus.

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One recently graduated veteran said he spoke to the school’s president about CUAD on Sunday.

“That post really shook the hornet’s nest,” said Sam Nahins, a 31-year-old Air Force veteran and Columbia graduate student who completed his undergraduate degree at the school in the spring.

“They’ve never hid their disdain for veterans. But now it’s really out in the open,” he added. “Last year when students and faculty members were running around dressing up as jihadists and screaming ‘Death to America,’ ‘Death to Western civilization,’ death to everything but their cause, I had friends get called infidels, and murderers and baby-killers.”…

Nahins — who has acted as an unofficial liaison for the school’s large veterans community of more than 700 students — raised such concerns to administrators after finding out about the “Martyrs Day” plans, and on Sunday had a “meaningful” call with Columbia’s interim president Katrina Armstrong, he said.

“When I told President Armstrong that about what happened last year, she really seemed to be very taken aback by it,” he said.

Columbia released a statement in support of veterans today.

“Columbia is proud of our students, faculty and staff who are veterans, and we are grateful for their service and sacrifice and the invaluable contributions they offer to our community,” a campus spokesperson told the Post on Sunday. “The University honors its veterans on Veterans Day and every day, and we are proud to be participating in the New York Veterans Day Parade tomorrow, as we have for more than a decade.”

“We are aware that a small group has called for a demonstration tomorrow, and our public safety team is monitoring for any disruptions to campus activity. As always, we are committed to preserving our core mission to teach, create, and advance knowledge,” the spokesperson said.

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Good for the school for taking sides in this case. CUAD continues to do what it started doing last year, which is make the campus a hostile place for their enemies. I guess we’ll see how many people actually turn up to this event today. Whatever is going to happen should be starting now (as I write this). I’ll update this post if I find any video of the protest.