Leave it to the Ivy League army of wealthy Marxists to fight for the downtrodden by… beating up underpaid janitors.
You may remember the chaos that unfolded at Columbia University, last April, when their student body of wannabe Jihadis collaborated with professional antifa types to violently turn their campus into gaza. Jews were pummeled and purged from the premises, as the army of spoiled brats smashed their way into Columbia’s “Hamilton Hall.”
Their victims include two janitors who are now suing 40 members of the mob for allegedly holding them “hostage” in that building while they were trying to clean up their mess.
Watch as Mahmoud Khalil's student group violently takes over Hamilton Hall at Columbia last spring.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) March 16, 2025
This isn’t about free speech—Mahmoud led a mob to seize a building by force. pic.twitter.com/0GDvzHNPlD
The suit, filed by Torridon Law and Louis D. Brandeis Center, claims workers, Mario Torres and Lester Wilson, were “terrorized” by “outside agitators” “into the early morning of April 30.”
The mob “assaulted and battered them,” reportedly “held them against their will and derided them as ‘Jew-lovers’ and ‘Zionists,’” according to the complaint obtained by the Free Press.
Both janitors believe their capture was “highly coordinated,” claiming they observed agitators breaking into the building with “cases of water and food,” “rolled-up mattresses,” and “tape and rope.”
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Wilson had told the Free Press he thought he “could have been killed in there.” Even though it's been a year since the incident, the duo is too traumatized to return to work. Instead, they’re “subsisting on interim Workers’ Compensation payments,” which doesn’t even cover basic needs or medical bills, according to the suit.
Meanwhile, their self-righteous mob of aggressors reportedly includes millionaire heirs.
Guy who tried to keep the Columbia janitor hostage is the son of millionaire parents. People joke that Bruce Wayne could have used his wealth to help Gotham, but maybe Batman's creators understood that what rich scions really like to do is put on masks and try to beat people up. https://t.co/dYuUuGCd3F pic.twitter.com/xmOfgZrVjx
— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) May 4, 2024
The lawsuit compares them to “the Ku Klux Klan,” claiming they were “part of a broad pro-Hamas, antisemitic network of organizations, groups, and cells that are connected through a largely untraceable underground communications system.”
Of course, the university would likely have responded much differently to their pro-Hamas pupils, were they actually affiliated with the KKK instead.
In fact, another ongoing lawsuit claims the mob collaborated “directly” with Hamas.
But since they were “motivated by invidious discrimination against Jews and supporters of Jews,” as the janitors’ suit describes, Columbia’s sympathetic administration didn’t seem to care until our new federal government began holding them accountable.
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