Metadata

• When: 2025-01-29

• Where: Columbia University

• Who:

• Organizations: CUAD, Unity of Fields

• Tags: tagVandalism

Description

On January 29, 2025, unknown persons vandalized the SIPA building by pouring cement like substance into the toilets in the women's bathrooms on floors 4, 6, 14, and 15, causing it to clog and damage the pipelines. The vandals also spray painted messages on the walls such as "Hind called we must answer", "Keren eat Weiner" (referring to the Jewish Dean of SIPA) "I'm scared please help - Hind age 6" and several images.

At the same time, Columbia Business School's building, Henry R Kravis Hall, was power spray painted on its front.

CUAD took responsibility for this vandalism on their Telegram channel, and Unity of Fields posted a video of the damage on their social media.

The vandalism technique that was used was described in a "how to" manual zine that was distributed in the Hind House event back in November.

• Video of the damage by Unity of Fields

• Screenshots of CUAD Telegram account are here and here

• Link to Unity of Fields X post

• Pages from instructions manual (1), (2) , (3) , (4)

• Email from the Dean of SIPA

Media and Press

• Protesters vandalize University buildings on anniversary of Hind Rajab killing by Isha Banerjee, Rebecca Massel, and Wiann Wilson, Columbia Spectator, January 30, 2025

• Columbia anti-Israel protesters post ‘anonymous’ video of activists blocking campus sewage lines by Luke Tress, Times of Israel, January 30, 2025

• Columbia University launching investigation against latest anti-Israel vandals by Haley Cohen, Jewish Insider, January 30, 2025

• Anti-Israel vandals pour cement down toilets, spray buildings with red paint at Columbia U by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, January 30, 2025

• Dumping Cement Into Sewage System, Columbia University Radicals Deploy Tactics They Studied Months Earlier at Event Hosted By Campus Org by Jessica Schwalb and Jessica Costescu, The Washington Free Beacon, January 30, 2025

• ‘Deplorable’: Anti-Zionist Activists Pour Concrete Into Toilets at Columbia University by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, January 31, 2025

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