Barnard Expels Another Student Over Hamilton Hall Occupation Last Semester

Barnard College is a Women’s College that is part of Columbia University. Last week, Barnard expelled two students who had disrupted a classroom at the beginning of the current academic semester in January. The pro-Hamas extremists on campus didn’t like that at all and responded by occupying a building where administrative offices exist as well as classrooms.

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— Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (@ColumbiaSJP) February 26, 2025

As a result of this chaos, classes were canceled as regular students couldn’t get into the building. The activists demanded a meeting with the school’s president and secured an agreement have one the following day but that meeting never took place. CUAD claimed the school had agreed to meet with 3 masked students. But the following day the school said all students in the meeting would need to be unmasked. And so it appears the meeting to make demands about the expelled students never took place. They disrupted classes for six hours for nothing.

Today, Barnard announced it has expelled another student who participated in the takeover of Hamilton Hall last spring. Once again the news was first revealed by CUAD, the unofficial, pro-Hamas student group that is organizing all of these protests.

The caption on this one reads:

🚨 BREAKING: BARNARD EXPELS THIRD STUDENT FOR THEIR ALLEGED LIBERATION OF HIND’S HALL 🚨

After stalling disciplinary cases for over nine months, Barnard rushed to issue the first ever expulsion for Hind’s Hall—one day after learning of the establishment of a DoJ task force on anti-semitism. These expulsions are entirely disparate, unprecedented, and unjustified. We WILL NOT let this stand. Barnard, you expel ONE of us, and a HUNDRED more will rise up!

As the CUAD post describes, a fourth student was also given a two year suspension for their involvement in the takeover of Hamilton Hall. CUAD is connecting the decision to announce these punishments now to action take by the Department of Justice last Friday.

The Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced that it will be visiting 10 university campuses that have experienced antisemitic incidents since October 2023. Created pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order on Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism, the Task Force set as its first priority to eradicate antisemitic harassment in schools and on college campuses…

The 10 universities identified by the Task Force are: Columbia University; George Washington University; Harvard University; Johns Hopkins University; New York University; Northwestern University; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Minnesota; and the University of Southern California.

In short, Columbia is getting a visit from the DOJ and maybe that’s what prompted them to finally take action on the building takeover that happened nearly a year ago. Meanwhile, Columbia still hasn’t expelled anyone involved in that incident.

At Columbia, the University Judicial Board is adjudicating the disciplinary processes for participants in the occupation of Hamilton Hall. Hearings for Hamilton Hall were set to start in late January. Though Columbia threatened expulsion for students involved in the occupation, no Columbia expulsions have been made public.

Columbia did indeed threaten to expel students but it never happened. In fact, nearly all the students involved were cleared last year.

• Of the 22 students arrested inside Hamilton Hall on April 30th, 18 are in good standing, with only three on interim suspensions, and one on probation. Columbia had previously said the students occupying Hamilton Hall would “face expulsion.”

The CUAD extremists are once again making demands and threatening to not let the current expulsion/suspension stand, but these are the same demands they made last week and those have resulted in absolutely nothing, not even a meeting to discuss it. 

The expelled students aren’t coming back and more students really should be joining them soon, both as a result of the takeover that happened last spring and the one that just happened last week. Suspend 50-60 more of these lunatics and the campus disruptions and vandalism will slow to a crawl. It’s a shame Columbia hasn’t done this already.