‘JEW LOVER!”: Columbia University Janitors Forced to Scrub Swastikas Were Assaulted, Kidnapped By Pro-Terror Mobs File Civil Rights Lawsuit Against University

Columbia university administration put their employees in harms way in the cause of Islamic terrorism.

Columbia University terrorists screamed “Jew lover” at black and Latino janitors cleaning up their vandalism and obscenities  on campus — including drawing swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti. They also violently assaulted them in Hamilton Hall.

In the wake of  Islamic takeover of one of Columbia’s most iconic buildings, Hamilton Hall was left looking like a war zone after pro-terror activists smashed windows, set up barricades and destroyed furniture during their occupation of the building, causing an untold amount of damage.

Columbia University anti-Israel brats screamed “Jew lover” at black and Latino janitors cleaning up their disgusting mess on campus — including drawing swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti. They also violently assaulted them in Hamilton Hall. https://t.co/ZxCcdsL2dI

— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) March 17, 2025

Columbia’s Iconic Hamilton Hall Destroyed by Terrorists, Smashed Windows, Offices, Destroyed Furniture

Janitors had reported the deluge of antisemitic, sexually obscene and racist graffiti at Hamilton Hall to campus security and concluded there was “no reason to believe” Columbia University “investigated any of the incidents” that had been flagged.

Columbia University requires an electronic ID to gain entrance to Hamilton Hall and the building was equipped with security feeds, the two janitors felt the authorities could’ve tracked down the perpetrators.

In one instance, around Dec. 6, 2023, Torres and Wilson observed masked protesters storm through Hamilton Hall chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and scrawling swastikas as well as other obscene graffiti in the building.

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After Wilson reported that, he was told by campus security that “the trespassers and vandals were exercising their First Amendment rights” and that “nothing could be done,” per the complaint.

Why is Columbia covering for Muslim students who paint swastikas during anti-Israel disruption sessions on campus? How come the janitors is the first time we hear about it? pic.twitter.com/SNnczkvcvf

— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) March 18, 2025

Columbia janitors claim they were illegally forced to scrub swastikas then were attacked, trapped by anti-Israel mob as civil rights probe launched

By Ryan King, NY Post, March 17, 2025:

Columbia University is facing a new federal investigation over allegations from two janitors who claim they were unlawfully forced to scrub off swastikas spray-painted on campus before later being attacked and briefly trapped by an anti-Israel “mob” during the takeover of Hamilton Hall last spring.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), a federal agency tasked with enforcing civil rights laws in the workplace, has opened a probe into complaints from Lester Wilson and Mario Torres, who were forced to fight their way out of Hamilton Hall nearly a year ago, The Post has confirmed.

Both men are making claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, alleging that they faced retaliatory harassment at the institution for “reporting antisemitic and racist conduct.”

“We welcome the EEOC’s decision to open an investigation into Mario’s and Lester’s charges of discrimination,” former US Attorney General Bill Barr, whose firm Torridon is representing the two men, told The Post.

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“Columbia has a legal and moral obligation to protect the civil rights of its students and employees. It must be held accountable when it fails to do so,” Barr, 74, who attended Columbia University and lived through the riots of the late 1960s there, added.

It is not fully clear when the EEOC commenced the probe, but records seen by The Post show that the agency was working on the investigation last month.

Wilson and Torres, who had worked at the school for over five years, were both left injured as well as traumatized from the scourge of anti-Israel unrest that engulfed the Ivy League school and have since been unable to return to work as a result, according to the complaints they filed last October.

“Hours after President [Minouche] Shafik issued her statement [that the university had become ‘unsafe for everyone‘], an antisemitic mob assaulted two janitors inside Columbia’s historic Hamilton Hall, calling them ‘Jew-lovers,’” the two complaints for both men recalled of the Hamilton Hall takeover in April last year.

“Columbia had indeed become unsafe for everyone, including the two janitors who were trapped inside Hamilton Hall. And for these two men, Columbia had for months been a hostile environment in violation of Title VII,” the complaints added.

It all began around November 2023, shortly after the bloody Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel sparked a war. Racist and antisemitic graffiti started to pop up, scrawled all around Hamilton Hall — and the campus’s janitors were forced to clean it up.

“Mr. Wilson recognized the swastikas as symbols of white supremacy,” Wilson’s complaint alleges. “As an African-American man, he found the images deeply distressing. He reported them to his supervisors, who instructed him to erase the graffiti.”

“No matter how many times Mr. Wilson removed the swastikas, individuals kept replacing them with more.”

Wilson lost track of how many swastikas he had to scrub, but his colleague Torres, who is Latino, pegged it in the dozens and eventually reached a point where he had enough, his complaint said.

The two maintenance workers argued that Columbia University could’ve prevented the chaos if it had taken action earlier. James Keivom

“They were so offensive, and Columbia’s inaction was so frustrating, that he eventually began throwing away chalk that had been left in the classrooms so vandals would not have anything to write with,” Torres’ complaint alleged.

“However, Mr. Torres was reprimanded by his supervisor for doing so.”

Given the fact that Columbia University requires an electronic ID to gain entrance to Hamilton Hall, which is nestled on the school’s Morningside Heights campus, and the fact that the building was equipped with security feeds, the two janitors felt the authorities could’ve tracked down the perpetrators.

They had reported the deluge of antisemitic, sexually obscene and racist graffiti at Hamilton Hall to campus security and concluded there was “no reason to believe” Columbia University “investigated any of the incidents” that had been flagged.

In one instance, around Dec. 6, 2023, Torres and Wilson observed masked protesters storm through Hamilton Hall chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and scrawling swastikas as well as other obscene graffiti in the building.

After Wilson reported that, he was told by campus security that “the trespassers and vandals were exercising their First Amendment rights” and that “nothing could be done,” per the complaint.

The antisemitic incidents on campus continued to occur.

Eventually, anti-Israel protesters erected encampments in a nod to the wretched conditions that scores of Palestinians endured in Gaza during the war.

Wilson’s union informed him in the spring of last year that Columbia University would offer overtime to custodians who agreed to tidy up the encampments. He also witnessed antisemitism in those encampments, the complaint alleged.

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