Radical anti-ICE activists, including woke faculty and students at Columbia University, disrupted traffic on February 5, 2026, demanding that the school become a “sanctuary campus” to shield illegals from lawful deportations.
Fed up with the situation, the NYPD rightly arrested 12 for disorderly conduct after they ignored orders to move. Sunrise Movement organizers shamelessly accused Columbia of enabling “extrajudicial murders” under Trump, while the university debunked their false claims and affirmed peaceful protest rights.
Breaking down the situation in a viral video, a reporter noted, “12 anti-ICE protesters were arrested by the NYPD this afternoon outside Columbia University. They were sitting in the street and blocking traffic near the entrance to the school. The NYPD ordered them to move and said that they would be charged with disorderly conduct if they did not.”
For context, a social media post from the group Sunrise invited Columbia students to the violent protest. The message read, “join us as we demand Columbia establish itself as a sanctuary campus and end its complicity with ICE.”
However, after the protests and the resultant arrests, the message changed. The protest group attacked the school, saying, “Columbia’s original collaboration with ICE and the Trump administration set the stage for the ICE raids and extrajudicial murders that are now terrorizing communities nationwide.”
“Columbia University supports the right of individuals to peacefully protest. However, claims made against the University during today’s protest activity, which took place outside of our gates, are factually incorrect,” the institution countered.
“For faculty to put themselves in this position where they will be handcuffed and led into an awaiting van and then driven downtown is a tremendous statement of calling out the institution, the board of trustees, and everybody involved, saying ‘our students are more important to us than caring for, in this moment, our own actual well being’” whined E. Y. Zipris, an adjunct professor at Teachers College.
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The same privileged woke activist added, “It became immediately clear that if I was to really continue to respect the University, then I have to join in with those who are fighting to remind Columbia of how it’s supposed to be.”
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In a seemingly irrelevant aside, Jennifer S. Hirsch, a professor of sociomedical sciences, declared, “It says in the Torah, be kind to the stranger for you are a stranger in a strange land and that was actually in my bat mitzvah Torah portion, and so I’m just responding to what to this moment asks of all of us.”
Doubling down on her progressive rhetoric, the professor alleged, “I think history will judge us for what we do at this moment. It’s scary and dangerous but it’s more scary and dangerous to have masked agents come to your door, break down your door, and kidnap you.”
One of the student organizers, Aharon Dardik, stated, “I wish my professors and my friends were still here. I think in any capacity, if you’re witnessing something really unjust, your responsibility is to protest that. And if you’re law enforcement, your job is not just to uphold the law, it’s to uphold justice.”
Featured image from embedded video