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Colleges Side With Radicals, Their Students Be Damned

By Betsy McCaughey
Wednesday, May 08 2024

The Left and their media allies want you to believe the protests roiling college campuses are spontaneous uprisings of morally fervent students worried about Gaza war victims. Don't fall for that claim. It's a scam. These protesters don't represent most students or the American public. Yet Monday, Columbia University canceled graduation ceremonies, kowtowing to the radical fringe, with whom they largely agree. Students and their families be damned. Here are the facts: A miniscule 2% of people ages 18 to 29 polled by Harvard's Kennedy School named the Israel-Hamas conflict as their top political…

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