It’s protest season. Again. 

This time, the Israel-Hamas conflict is the pretext for activists to block freeways, vandalize buildings and occupy universities. 

Protesters took over Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus, renaming it the Gaza Solidarity Encampment.

An estimated 800 students set up tents before replacing the American flag with a Hamas banner. They chanted Islamist slogans, told Jewish students to “go back to Europe” and menaced anyone who disagreed.