COST OF SPEECH: COLUMBIA STUDENT WHO PRAISED KHALIL ARREST IN WSJ OP-ED RECEIVED DEATH THREATS

A Columbia University freshman who wrote an article praising the arrest and possible deportation of campus agitator Mahmoud Khalil was almost immediately besieged with unhinged messages from fellow students calling him “Zionist scum” and urging him to kill himself.

Lucca Ruggieri’s March 18 commentary in the Wall Street Journal voiced full-throated support for President Trump’s efforts to oust troublemakers like Khalil from campus — while questioning how someone who “harbors hostilities” toward American values was even admitted to the prestigious school in the first place.

“It’s like little kids. You say one thing that hurts their feelings, and they have a temper tantrum,” Ruggieri told The Post Thursday. “This is not the sort of person that one of our top institutions should be admitting.”  MORE AT Exclusive | Columbia student gets death threats over Mahmoud Khalil arrest praise in WSJ

And again here is his WSJ PIECE

Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia and the Politics of Deportation - WSJ