Columbia University's protesters most moronic moments: From demanding 'humanitarian aid' to complaining about their privacy and whining when the cops finally cracked down

Columbia student protestors were finally shut down by police force Tuesday night after weeks of unrest spurred by the school's Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

Protesters have been demanding the college divest from companies with links to Israel or firms profiting from its war on Hamas. 

NYPD officers apprehended pro-Palestinian students on the Ivy League campus who had taken over Hamilton Hall, causing considerable damage and destruction to the building.

Wednesday morning, the NYPD reported that more than 280 students from Columbia and City College were arrested Tuesday. 

While the fate of those students currently sits in the hands of New York's finest and their respective universities, DailyMail.com takes a look at some of the most absurd moments from the last several weeks of pro-terror protesting.

Asking for 'Humanitarian Aid' in Hamilton Hall

Columbia PhD student Johannah King-Slutzky, a self-described 'political strategist for leftist and progressive causes,' along with some of her fellow keffiyeh-donning activists, held a press conference outside the building they'd taken over.

King-Slutzky claimed that the university was obligated to provide food to students who had barricaded themselves inside the hallowed building because they pay for meal plan at Columbia.

She said that the university's decision about how to deal with such a request will depend upon 'what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students.'

'Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation?' she asked.

'It's crazy to say because we're on an Ivy League campus, but this is like basic humanitarian aid we're asking for. Like, could people please have a glass of water.'

One reporter in the crowd challenged the radical student, who is writing her dissertation about Marxist history, on the legitimacy of the request that the school provide resources to students who had executed a hostile takeover of a building.

'It seems like you're saying, "we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food,"' he said.

King-Slutzky said the group was looking for a 'commitment' from Columbia that no one attempting to deliver food and water to the protestors would be met with violence - at the time of her saying this, no one had been stopped violently or otherwise.

After weeks of rabble-rousing, pro-terror Columbia student protestors took over Hamilton Hall at Tuesday around 1am

New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University Tuesday night after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building near Gaza Solidarity Encampment

Protestors shout 'We are Hamas!' and ask for privacy 

Last week, just days into the Passover holiday, Columbia protestors gathered on the quad to chant various slogans and activist battle cries to carry their point further across campus.

One-such protestor was seen shouting 'We are Hamas!'

'Hamas make us proud, kill another soldier now,' shouted another.

Hamas is the unrepentant radical Palestinian terror group that committed the atrocity on October 7, which included murdering civilians, raping Israeli women, and taking hundreds of hostages, many of whom have yet to be returned.

October 7 was quick to be branded by some campus radicals as a legitimate means of resistance to Israel's alleged occupation of Gaza.

Ahead of and during the Passover holiday, the environment on campus became so untenable for Jewish students that a campus rabbi warned them to stay home amid the incredibly anti-Semitic environment.

All along, student protestors have maintained the position that they have a 'right to privacy' and media should stop showing up to record them as they shout in support of terrorism.

One student confronted Free Beacon journalist Jessica Costescu, who was attempting to take a video of Mohamed Abdou, a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar, who she'd spotted speaking outside the encampment.

The young-looking student sported a keffiyeh, oversized plaid jacket, and a nose ring, as she repeatedly in a monotonous voice asked the journalist to stop recording for 'safety's sake, and for privacy.'

String Dance for Peace

In one especially odd display of solidarity with Palestinians in war-torn Gaza, university students performed a red string dance to celebrate Earth Day on the sunny Columbia quad full of encampment tents.

Students wore keffiyehs, COVID masks, and some generally odd outfits to shield their identities as they became tangled in red string through interpretive movement.

Fellow activist students stood around the large knot taking shape, clapping and holding banners that read 'Decolonize Decarbonize.'

Keffiyeh sporting protest supporters watch as members of the NYPD detain protesters from the pro-Palestinian protest encampment and Hamilton Hall where demonstrators barricaded themselves inside

'Zionists don't deserve to live'

In one of the more salient moments of the Columbia encampment saga, one of the loudest student protest leaders, Khymani James, was revealed to have publicly said, over and over again, that 'Zionists don't deserve to live.'

A video of James, a non-binary junior at the Ivy League school, resurfaced last week that had initially been a 90-minute livestream he posted of himself sitting through a disciplinary meeting after posting threatening messages online. 

In a recording of the stream, James meets with employees of Columbia's Center for Student Success and Intervention over an Instagram post in which he warned Zionists in his DMs that he 'fights to kill.'

An employee asked him: 'Do you see why that's problematic in any way?' He responded: 'No.'

He continues to defend his position, that all Zionists 'don't deserve to live,' sprinkling cackles and erratic-seeming shifts in tone throughout the video.

'Zionists don’t deserve to live comfortably, let alone Zionists don’t deserve to live ...  I feel very comfortable, very comfortable, calling for those people to die,' he said just before the stream ended.

After uproar over the video ensued, Columbia banned James from campus under an 'interim suspension,' meaning he may or may not be allowed to return to classes.

James, who has previously voiced aspirations of one day becoming a member of the US House of Representatives, has since issued a sort of apology, in which he apologized for his exact wording, but remained steadfast in his position that 'Zionism is an ideology that necessitates the genocide of the Palestinian people. I oppose that in the strongest terms.' 

Images and video showed extensive damage to Hamilton Hall after protesters were evicted on Tuesday night

The Gaza solidarity crowd smashed windows, upended furniture and caused damage throughout Hamilton Hall during their brief occupation

The Messy Finale

Tuesday night, police raided Hamilton Hall, arresting more than 100 students and without causing any injuries, shutting down the most outrageous part of the demonstration to date. It was their second trip to the uptown campus that ended in 100+ arrests.

The NYPD confirmed those occupying Hamilton Hall could be charged with trespass and burglary, while those in the encampment could be hit with trespassing and disorderly conduct charges. 

The university's problems are far from over, though. As authorities began their raid, Columbia faculty released a statement condemning the decision to end the protest and blaming President Minouche Shafik's administration for allowing tensions to reach a boiling point.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has also moved out in front of the issue, claiming  the protest had been co-opted by external actors and it was long past time to shut the whole things down.

Jewish students and their supporters are angry that it took so long for officials to crack down on the protests amid allegations of anti-Semitism.

Regular Columbia students were also shooed away from campus by the protestors and the administration during the last weeks of classes and time leading into finals week.