Columbia Janitors Imprisoned By Pro-Hamas Terrorists File Lawsuit with the EEOC; Say That the Hamas Terrorists Drew So Many Swastikas on the Walls The Janitors Threw All the Chalk Away to Stop Further Swastika-Drawings

Oh, and they were reprimanded for doing that.

While Columbia covered up, and continues covering up, the Nazi leanings of its leftwing anti-Jew students and the radicals they invite on to campus to ringlead mob violence.

Columbia University is facing a new federal investigation over allegations from two janitors who claim they were unlawfully forced to scrub off swastikas spray-painted on campus before later being attacked and briefly trapped by an anti-Israel "mob" during the takeover of Hamilton Hall last spring.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency tasked with enforcing civil rights laws in the workplace, has opened a probe into complaints from Lester Wilson and Mario Torres, who were forced to fight their way out of Hamilton Hall nearly a year ago, The Post has confirmed.

Both men are making claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging that they faced retaliatory harassment at the institution for "reporting antisemitic and racist conduct."

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Wilson and Torres, who had worked at the school for over five years, were both left injured as well as traumatized from the scourge of anti-Israel unrest that engulfed the Ivy League school and have since been unable to return to work as a result, according to the complaints they filed last October.

"Hours after President [Minouche] Shafik issued her statement [that the university had become 'unsafe for everyone'], an antisemitic mob assaulted two janitors inside Columbia's historic Hamilton Hall, calling them 'Jew-lovers,'" the two complaints for both men recalled of the Hamilton Hall takeover in April last year.

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It all began around November 2023, shortly after the bloody Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel sparked a war. Racist and antisemitic graffiti started to pop up, scrawled all around Hamilton Hall -- and the campus's janitors were forced to clean it up.

"Mr. Wilson recognized the swastikas as symbols of white supremacy," Wilson's complaint alleges. "As an African-American man, he found the images deeply distressing. He reported them to his supervisors, who instructed him to erase the graffiti."

"No matter how many times Mr. Wilson removed the swastikas, individuals kept replacing them with more."

Wilson lost track of how many swastikas he had to scrub, but his colleague Torres, who is Latino, pegged it in the dozens and eventually reached a point where he had enough, his complaint said.

"They were so offensive, and Columbia's inaction was so frustrating, that he eventually began throwing away chalk that had been left in the classrooms so vandals would not have anything to write with," Torres' complaint alleged.

"However, Mr. Torres was reprimanded by his supervisor for doing so."

Given the fact that Columbia University requires an electronic ID to gain entrance to Hamilton Hall, which is nestled on the school's Morningside Heights campus, and the fact that the building was equipped with security feeds, the two janitors felt the authorities could've tracked down the perpetrators.

They had reported the deluge of antisemitic, sexually obscene and racist graffiti at Hamilton Hall to campus security and concluded there was "no reason to believe" Columbia University "investigated any of the incidents" that had been flagged.

In one instance, around Dec. 6, 2023, Torres and Wilson observed masked protesters storm through Hamilton Hall chanting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and scrawling swastikas as well as other obscene graffiti in the building.

After Wilson reported that, he was told by campus security that "the trespassers and vandals were exercising their First Amendment rights" and that "nothing could be done," per the complaint.

A student is also filing complaints against Columbia for protecting its Hamas-promoting terrorist agent Mahmoud Khalil.

Khalil, 30, also routinely boasted in class that he headed the Students for Justice in Palestine movement at Columbia and "didn't love Jews."

He was a frequent no-show to class, which centered on Israeli politics, the student recalled. And when he did attend lectures, he disrespectfully interrupted his professor, who is Israeli.

"Everything about Israel was illegitimate; everything about Zionism was illegitimate because, in his mind, it's like a farce and a fallacy to think otherwise," she said.

And Khalil routinely "targeted" Jewish students in a WhatsApp group chat the class shared, she added.

"Once or twice a week, he would just go in [the group chat] and basically instigate crazy claims that were just very antisemitic and really inflammatory, and would get into fights with people," she said.

Reading directly from the chat, she recounted, "One day a Jewish student had said, 'I'm disturbed by the normalization of the insane amount of antisemitism spewed in this chat in the last few months. Disappointed and shameful.' To that, Mahmoud said, 'Thank you. This is exactly what some are trying to do so hard in this conversation: Conflate Judaism and Zionism, so it's easier for them to shut down any criticism of the colonial, genocidal state of Israel.'

The student said it was such erratic behavior that drove her to drop the class -- although she didn't dare confront him.

"I just didn't want to become a target of his," she said.

The student, however, anonymously filed two Title VI complaints with Columbia administrators about his antisemitic rants within the group chat -- but nothing ever came of them, she said.

John Sexton reports that the Hamas-supporting rag the New York Times whitewashed Mahmoud Khalil's radicalism, but now softly admits he supports "armed resistance," which "Israel calls terrorism."

...at a discussion sponsored by the coalition of student protesters, he remarked that whether Palestinian resistance was peaceful or armed, "Israel and their propaganda always find something to attack." He added, "They -- we -- have tried armed resistance, which is, again, legitimate under international law." But Israel calls it terrorism, he said...

Sexton also reports that colleges -- or what were once colleges -- are realizing that they have lost the support of most of the country and the left doesn't have the power to save them.

Columbia University is just the start of a long-brewing backlash. On Monday of this week the Trump administration's Department of Education put 60 schools on notice that they will lose federal funding if they don't do more to crack down on antisemitism on campus.

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Unfortunately for many of these schools, they are only now realizing that they don't have a lot of friends to take up any slack if their budgets are cut.

[NYT:]

Prestigious universities have come to find adversaries in many worlds, among the working class, among rich alumni, among highly educated progressives who find them self-regarding. "Universities are good targets for resentment," said Michael Roth, the president of Wesleyan University who has written about modern campus politics. "They take such enormous pride in how many people they reject.

"We at universities have not done enough over the years to pay attention to those groups -- conservative groups, religious groups -- around the country that are essential parts of a democratic culture. The isolation makes us very vulnerable."

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