I saw Columbia craziness up close — and New York City’s headed that way if Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor

In a new op-ed for The New York Post, author Ben Appel writes: “I enrolled in Columbia University’s undergraduate school for nontraditional students, the School of General Studies, in 2017 as a 33-year-old progressive Democrat. By the time I graduated in May 2020, my entire worldview had been upended.

What I witnessed on campus was not education but indoctrination — a sweeping cultural revolution fueled by anti-Americanism, antisemitism and revolutionary zealotry.

It’s easy to write off the footage we see online — masked protesters storming libraries, chanting for an intifada and vandalizing campus property — as fringe behavior. But to me, someone who lived inside Columbia’s ecosystem for years, it’s not shocking at all.”

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