A hate-fueled revolutionary manifesto that links Columbia University’s pro-terror protests to heralded “anti-colonial” movements is circulating at the school, bolstering claims of outside agitators there.
The six-page “National Liberation Struggles’’ proclamation was found left behind in a lab class at the embattled Ivy League institution, according to a Jewish student who received a copy of the missive.
“This manifesto associating Jews with all the world’s ills would be an amusing parody if it weren’t fueling the deadly aim of destroying the Jewish state and returning Jews everywhere to a dispossessed, defenseless people available for abuse and scapegoating as the mood arises,” said Rory Lancman, senior counsel at the Brandeis Center For Human Rights Under Law, a Columbia Law School grad and a former New York City councilman.
The document strengthens claims by New York City Mayor Eric Adams and others that outside “agitators” have influenced and even infiltrated groups of pro-terror protesters at the Upper Manhattan school and other college campuses.
An anti-Israel mob launched an illegal takeover of an academic building at Columbia earlier this month, forcing cops in riot gear to storm the site to roust and arrest them.
“The students of Columbia are organizing their power to demand the university divest from all companies profiting off the Israel occupation of Palestine, to end all academic affiliations with Israel, and to end Columbia’s complicity with the Zionist project,” the manifesto starts out.
The missive emphasizes the goal to expand students’ minds “beyond the university” and join “the larger struggle for the liberation of all the oppressed people everywhere.
“How is the student movement engaged in the larger anti-imperialist and internationalist movement in the U.S. and the world” the document says.
The communist manifesto only inflames antisemitism, Lancman said.
“The anti-Israel protests at Columbia and elsewhere are part of the global antisemitism movement, not merely ideologically but logistically and operationally,” he told The Post.
The US and Israel and “The West” are painted as oppressors in the manifesto, while rights-restrictive Cuba and Vietnam are revolutionary models to emulate.
Hard-line, freedom-denying China and North Korea get a pass.
Liberation struggles also are touted for blacks in the US and the downtrodden in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the oppressed Ukranians’ quest for freedom doesn’t make the “liberation” cut in the pamphlet.
“The people of Palestine, the students on this campus, and oppressed people everywhere teaches us that we can fight for another way of life, to struggle for a new world to be born,” the document says.
The US even gets blamed for the COVID-19 outbreak.
“The neglect of the COVID-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd and rising anti-Black violence, and the unconditional support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza shows us that, at every turn, at every crisis, the U.S. and other western countries will alway put their interests first,’’ the document says.
There’s an odd reference to North Korea, considered the harshest communist regime in the world.
“We can see that the workers and students in the U.S. have more in common with the people of Palestine, Sudan, Korea and India than with the elite of Washington, New York, London and Tel Aviv,” the document says.
The manifesto applauds the spread of communism in Vietnam and Cuba — backed at the time by China and the former Soviet Union — while excoriating the US.
New York State Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox said the manifesto is proof that the communists and the anti-American hard left are organizing and exploiting the anti-Israel campus protests.
“These are the Marxist-Leninists who are the agitators stoking the fires at Columbia and other campuses. I’m not surprised. They’ve done this throughout history,” Cox said.
“They can have an impact on gullible students,” he said. “They are not American. They are anti-American.”
A Columbia University rep declined comment.
