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   For many Americans, the words “outside agitators” evoke memories of   
   southern segregationists complaining about northern civil rights workers   
   organizing black Americans.   
      
   But times and issues change and those same words now have a very different   
   connotation.   
      
   This time they are used by police and northern mayors, some of them black,   
   to refer to professional radicals who helped start the antisemitic, pro-   
   Hamas riots plaguing colleges across the country.   
      
   Mayor Adams early on accused “outside agitators” of radicalizing students   
   when unruly mobs formed on campuses within the five boroughs, including   
   New York University, City College, Fordham and Columbia.   
      
   “Outside agitators were on their grounds, training and really co-opting   
   this movement,” Adams said about Columbia.   
      
   Police statistics confirm the outsiders’ lopsided role.   
      
   In some cases, more than half of those taken into custody by the NYPD have   
   no affiliation with the universities where they were wreaking havoc.   
      
   NYU, for example, said 68 of the 133 people arrested there one day last   
   month weren’t students, faculty, or staff.   
      
   At City College, 102 of the 170 who were arrested last week had no   
   affiliation with the college, police said.   
      
   Terrorist headbands   
   The Post identified one of the most violent leaders of the Columbia   
   takeover as James Carlson, a former silver-spoon kid who is now a 40-year-   
   old professional agitator who lives in a Brooklyn home valued at $3.4   
   million.   
      
   Described by police as a “longtime anarchist” with a rap sheet that goes   
   back to 2005, Carlson has no affiliation with Columbia but was arrested   
   inside Hamilton Hall on Tuesday night where protestors broke in and   
   barricaded themselves behind piles of furniture.   
      
   Considered a possible leader of the group, he has been charged with   
   burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, conspiracy and   
   criminal trespassing.   
      
   Many of the outside radicals come ready for battle with a “uniform” of   
   masked faces and Arab kaffiyehs used as scarves and head coverings.   
      
   They also have a steady supply of Palestinian flags, one of which flew   
   above City College until police took it down and raised Old Glory.   
      
   Green Hamas headbands and yellow Hezbollah flags also have been spotted,   
   evidence that some of the hooligans are proud of their allegiance to   
   groups designated by the United States as terrorist organizations.   
      
   The fact that many of the protesters’ tactics and the tents they’ve set up   
   on campuses also are identical suggests there is a super structure guiding   
   the turmoil.   
      
   The Wall Street Journal reports some activist groups have been training   
   for the campus protests since soon after Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct.   
   7.   
      
   It identified the National Students for Justice in Palestine, which has   
   branches on more than 300 campuses, as a chief organizer, trainer and   
   advocate for tent camps and the takeover of buildings.   
      
   It also reportedly helped guide the students’ agenda, which everywhere   
   includes demands for colleges to end investments in companies doing   
   business with Israel.   
      
   Given the many crimes charged in police crackdowns, as well as the   
   antisemitic harassment and the embrace of terrorists, the evidence of an   
   organized conspiracy should be fodder for the Department of Justice.   
      
   So far, however, the department has been silent and there is little chance   
   Attorney General Merrick Garland will lift a finger if it might hurt   
   President Biden’s chance of re-election.   
      
   Although Biden demanded that Garland prosecute Donald Trump, and Garland   
   obeyed, the last thing the White House wants is a probe of terrorist   
   wannabes.   
      
   Democratic base   
   Radical-left students and Muslim Americans are a key component of the   
   Democrats’ coalition in swing states, and they are already unhappy with   
   Biden.   
      
   A probe could guarantee he won’t get their votes.   
      
   The political math also explains much if not all of the administration’s   
   pressure on Israel to agree to a permanent cease-fire with Hamas.   
      
   Until he realized the domestic downsides, Biden was a wholehearted   
   supporter of Israel.   
      
   And so Garland has said nothing about the nationwide campus chaos and   
   Biden never mentions antisemitism without also warning about Islamophobia,   
   as if they are two equal sides of the same coin.   
      
   As the role of outsiders grows clear, the way most college presidents   
   handled their campuses’ protests looks even worse than it did.   
      
   Nearly all these presidents were frightened into submission by a mouse   
   that roared in the sense that relatively few students were actually   
   involved.   
      
   It’s bad enough that the presidents tolerated takeovers of university   
   properties, harassment of students and nonstop noise leading to canceled   
   classes and threats to disrupt graduations.   
      
   Many school leaders also foolishly offered concessions during negotiations   
   even though most protests included violations of rules and criminal laws.   
      
   Some presidents essentially capitulated, with Brown agreeing to vote on   
   the antisemitic divest demand.   
      
   Northwestern agreed to a quota system by setting aside five scholarships   
   for Palestinian students each year and giving Muslim groups special spaces   
   on campus for “community building.”   
      
   Columbia, the epicenter of the outbreak, is a textbook case of a weak   
   leader allowing her campus to be held hostage for more than two weeks as   
   she negotiated with ringleaders.   
      
   The Ivy League school’s president, Minouche Shafik, also twice called in   
   the NYPD to arrest resisters who occupied university property and refused   
   to leave.   
      
   The first time was on April 18, when New York’s Finest rousted people who   
   set up a tent camp in the middle of the campus.   
      
   Police later said just 38 of those arrested were students, CNN reported.   
      
   During the second crackdown, 80 students were arrested, along with 32   
   outsiders, including James Carlson.   
      
   Combined, that means just 118 students were allegedly committing   
   violations serious enough to be arrested in the two raids.   
      
   It’s a drop in the Columbia bucket.   
      
   Across its undergraduate and graduate programs, the university enrolls   
   nearly 37,000 students.   
      
   Coddling troublemakers   
      
   Even if the scope is limited to the undergraduate programs at Columbia and   
   Barnard colleges, the total number of enrolled students is about 10,000.   
      
   And just 118 of them were arrested.   
      
   Of course, more students than that participated in some demonstrations and   
   no doubt others supported the demands or just their friends.   
      
   But the small number of hardcore disruptors illustrates how badly Shafik   
   and Columbia’s board bungled the responses.   
      
   Had they firmly enforced existing policies against disturbances from the   
      
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