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‘Humanitarian aid’ Columbia protester now teaching at school

Student who accused Columbia of trying to starve anti-Israel demonstrators rewarded with teaching job at school.

By World Israel News Staff

An anti-Israel demonstrator who went viral for demanding “humanitarian aid” be given to protesters illegally occupying a campus building is now teaching at Columbia.

Johannah King-Slutzky, a leader of the raucous anti-Israel protests that roiled the campus, was a doctoral student at the school during the last academic year.

She famously said that she expected Columbia to provide food and water to anti-Israel students at a tent encampment, along with those who had taken over Hamilton Hall.

“It’s ultimately a question of what kind of community and obligation Columbia feels it has to its students,” said King-Slutzky, speaking on behalf of the anti-Israel students.

“Do you want students to die of dehydration and starvation or get severely ill, even if they disagree with you? If the answer is ‘no,’ then you should allow basic … I mean, it’s crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus, but this is, like, basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for,” she continued.

“Like, could people please have a glass of water?”

King-Slutzky’s remarks were widely skewered in the media, including by pro-Palestinian activists who were offended by her choice of words in comparing the plight of the Gazans to Columbia students.

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After Columbia threatened to expel students who continued occupying the building and refused to disperse the tent encampment, the protests eventually died down.

But despite her participation in the illegal takeover of the building, King-Slutzky was offered a teaching job at the school, which she accepted.

The course taught by King-Slutzky, Contemporary Western Civilization, is a requirement for undergraduates at Columbia.

King-Slutzky refused to comment on her new position to the New York Post.

Her bio page on Columbia’s website contains a description of King-Slutzky’s PhD dissertation.

“My goal is to write a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism,” she wrote.

“I am particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens in order to update and propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination.”