Columbia alum Dan Abrams ‘ashamed’ of anti-Israel campus protests, backed mass arrest

TV big and Columbia Law School alum Dan Abrams says he’s “ashamed” of nan anti-Israel protests being allowed to adjacent down nan campus.

“As a postgraduate of Columbia University Law School, I americium ashamed, I’m embarrassed, by what I’m seeing connected that field and now connected different campuses,” nan Mediaite owner, 57, said successful opening his NewsNation show Tuesday.

Abrams added that he “wholeheartedly” supported nan wide apprehension of complete 100 protesters astatine nan schoolhouse past week – days aft calling nan protesters “antisemitic thugs” leaving “an disfigured stain for each students and graduates of a erstwhile salient University.”

Abrams said he was disgusted by really nan Gaza Solidarity Encampment and its supporters had disrupted field life.

Following astir a week of protests, nan assemblage announced that students would decorativeness nan outpouring semester pinch hybrid classes.

“Hundreds of professors walked retired saying they wanted to show solidarity pinch nan students. I deliberation they should get fired for stepping retired connected their jobs if they left,” Abrams insisted.

He besides slammed remarks from a Columbia Law professor who supposedly said nan encampment was “‘not immoderate different from mundane life connected campus.’” 

“It’s not immoderate different from mundane life connected campus? Except now nan schoolhouse has to spell distant for nan remainder of nan semester,” Abrams scoffed.

“When you determine to protestation connected backstage property, you still person to abide by definite rules. You aren’t conscionable entitled to return complete nan field because you judge your origin is righteous,” he added.

Follow The Post’s sum of nan anti-Israel protests astatine Columbia University:

• Columbia cancels in-person classes to ‘reset’ arsenic anti-Israel protests raise tensions
• Columbia’s astir outspoken professional of anti-Israel protesters, Prof. Shai Davidai, refused introduction to field for pro-Jewish rally
• Elise Stefanik, each NY House GOP lawmakers request Columbia president Minouche Shafik resign immediately
• Columbia Jewish alumni request firing of president Shafik for failing to protect students connected campus

“This isn’t normal, each right? But putting speech nan students, nan professors who person joined nan student protesters should cognize better. And by nan way, this is exposing them arsenic nan extremists that they are,” he lamented.

Abrams’ remarks came a fewer hours earlier Columbia President Minouche Shafik capitulated to nan protesters and extended nan first Wednesday midnight deadline for them to disperse by 48 hours.

Shafik is now facing calls to resign from some protesters furious astir her determination to let NYPD to apprehension 108 demonstrators past week and from those who judge she is failing to protect Jewish students.