And it's probably not causative that so many among today's most noxious movement - the Left's "antizionist", antisemitic movement - are from the same background; Ivy leaguers, from America's top 10% in income and social influence.  

But boy howdy, those correlations.  

The Free Beacon has been looking into the backgrounds of the "students" arrested for the violent confrontation at Columbia earlier in May.

And there's a...certain synchronicity in their social profiles.  A not atypical example:

Emma Biswas grew up in a life of luxury. She led the robotics team at the Harker School, which bills itself as one of the nation’s top college prep schools and where tuition can reach $65,000. While there, she interned with a biotech company that boasts, "Prospective Nobel Prize Winners Work Here." And until she left for Barnard College, Biswas lived in a San Francisco Bay Area mansion worth about $5.8 million, according to a Redfin estimate.

Then she was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, along with 80 other radicals. The May 7 mob injured two security officials, damaged bookshelves, distributed pamphlets praising Hamas, and renamed the library after a terrorist. They were led by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, a notorious anti-Semitic group that wants the Ivy League school to cut all ties with Israel, and chanted, "We want divestment now."

Reading the profiles of some of those arrested reminds me of the bios for some the white douchebag "finance bros" that serve as the interchangeable villains in so much modern entertainment - at least until you get into the specifics of the actual people:

Before Marisol Rojas-Cheatham was arrested, the Columbia pre-law student grew up in a Berkeley, Calif., home valued at $1.8 million by Redfin and attended the Bentley School, where tuition can reach nearly $60,000 per year. According to her LinkedIn page, Rojas-Cheatham was the captain of the varsity women's soccer team, played varsity lacrosse, and was president of the student government, to name a few of her extracurriculars on Bentley’s sprawling 12-acre Upper School campus. Her father, Primitivo Rojas-Cheatham, works at Kaiser Permanente as a training and development consultant and is trained in "somatics, trauma and social justice."

Now, there's nothing wrong with being wealthy, or even a child of wealth; economic freedom is supposed to open up that opportunity to everyone who wants, and works for, it.

But as the Beacon notes, there's a socioeconomic symmetry to the - I say this with all journalistic precision - spoiled brats arrested for vandalizing their $68,000/year institution in service of redeveloping the MIddle East "from the river to the sea".

But for the sake of transparency, the Washington Free Beacon is publishing the names of the yet-reported anti-Israel radicals arrested after storming Columbia University’s Butler Library earlier this month.

In semi-related news, two janitors - presumably actual members of the working class - allege they were held hostage by "protesters" at Columbia, and are taking the various groups at the $68,000-per-year school to court:

Two janitors for Columbia University who claim they were held hostage in a “highly coordinated” attack last year are suing the protesters involved in the incident, The Free Press reported. Mario Torres and Lester Wilson told The Free Press they’re “suing their alleged captors for battery, assault, and conspiracy to violate their civil rights.”

The lawsuit stems from a night nearly one year ago — the early morning hours of April 30, 2024 — when pro-Palestinian protesters stormed Hamilton Hall on Columbia University’s campus, smashing windows and barricading doors just after midnight.

You need to break eggs to make an omelette.   Especially at one of those posh upper west side brunch places that Columbia kids hang out at.