Return to 1968

“When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London,” Bette Midler said. What time is it now in New York?

On April 17, while Columbia University President Minouche Shafik was telling a congressional committee that she and her administrators had a handle on anti-Jewish incitement and violence at the university, hundreds of her students set up an unlicensed “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the campus’s West Lawn. A day later, Shafik called in the NYPD, who arrested more than a hundred students. The arrests attracted more protesters, some from outside the university, some from within.

The protesters chanted “Zionists not allowed here” and “Jews, go back to Poland.” They called for “10,000 Oct. 7ths” and hymned the al Qassam Brigades, the military wing

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