Why are so many of the pro-Hamas protestors/demonstrators/rioters/jihadist-like rioters--girls and women? Why do they mask themselves voluntarily as well so as to disguise their identities? I have tried to address this question many times before. Ultimately, we might conclude that freedom is too heavy a burden for women in the West today, or that it's an odd form of rebellion, namely, they may feel that this is a way in which they can assert themselves, be loud, be proud, be "dangerous" in order to gain male or tribal approval without having to appear half-naked, gyrating, and wiggling.

Maybe some of these jihadist-wannabees, like their male counterparts, are also getting paid by foreign Islamist entities. Perhaps they think that they're protecting the large number of pro-Hamas male foreigners who are here illegally. Is this a new and politically correct form of motherhood?

Why do I write this? Ever since 10/7, I have viewed a large number of women in keffiyehs, banging drums, womanning the megaphones, gluing themselves to streets in order to impede traffic. However, in the awful "occupation" of Butler Library at Columbia this past week, of the 81 rioters arrested--61 were women. Seventy-five percent were women.

I dunno. Were the male jihadist "wannabees" faster runners?

I've been told that the police have not kept anyone of the 81 but have merely issued desk warrants. This means that they do have to appear in court at some point. Will they be fined a small sum? Will they be fined at all?

Why, oh, why? These jihadist-like rioters surged into private property just as Hamas surged into southern Israel on 10/7. They are similarly masked. As my colleague Douglas Murray has asked: Would masked members of the KKK calling for the lynching of African-American men be so gently treated? Not arrested? Not called out? Not tossed out of school?

OK. What is Columbia going to do--terminate those who are students? Not allow them to graduate? Prohibit them from being on the campus?

In my opinion, the more successful Israel is in battling Hamas in Gaza (at great, great cost), the more intense are these campus riots. The two are connected.