The NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau’s Tel Aviv office coordinates with Israeli security. A Columbia lecturer, heading the NYPD bureau, probed the students, whom the bureau arrested, and is the bridge between Israel and New York, The GrayZone reports.
By Wyatt Reed and Max Blumenthal
The Grayzone
The violent crackdown carried out on Columbia University students protesting Israel’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip was led by a member of the school’s own faculty, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has declared.
During a May 1 press conference, just hours after the New York Police Department [Counterterrorism unit] arrested nearly 300 people on university grounds, Adams praised adjunct Columbia professor Rebecca Weiner, who moonlights as the head of the NYPD counter-terrorism bureau, for giving police the green light to clear out anti-genocide students by force.
“She was the one that was monitoring the situation,” Adams explained, adding that the crackdown was carried out after “she was able to — her team was able to conduct an investigation.”
Congratulations to SIPA Adjunct Professor Rebecca Weiner, who was recently appointed as Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism of the NYPD by @NYPDPC Edward Caban.https://t.co/DqvBZIaFTJ pic.twitter.com/zMOFrOLnGY
— Columbia | SIPA (@ColumbiaSIPA) July 24, 2023
On April 30, dozens of police in riot gear descended on Columbia’s Hamilton Hall after students seized the building earlier in the day, citing a request from the administration. Several hours later, officers used a heavily armored NYPD BearCat vehicle to enter the building through the window on the second floor and arrested those inside, while another team swept up members of the encampment outside.
Starting on April 17, students at Columbia escalated their ongoing protest against Israel’s genocidal assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. They encamped on school grounds, stating their refusal to leave until the university fully divested from its Israeli-related investments.
That protest model has since spread to over 100 other universities in the U.S., and even been taken up abroad, with similar actions occurring at Leeds University in the U.K. and the Sorbonne in Paris.
Just a few hundred meters from the Gaza protest encampment, Weiner maintained an office at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Her SIPA bio describes her as an “Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs” who simultaneously serves as the “civilian executive in charge of the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau.”
There is no intel and there is co-opting this movement.
It’s clear that’s everyone from Biden and Blinken to Hochul and Adams are willing to hurt or kill our college students to continue arming and funding the genocidal State of Israel.
Stand for truth, justice and Palestine. https://t.co/Hp4JpoPThk
— Ashish Prashar (@Ash_Prashar) May 1, 2024
In that role, according to SIPA, Weiner “develops policy and strategic priorities for the Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau and publicly represents the NYPD in matters involving counterterrorism and intelligence.”
The NYPD’s Counterterrorism Bureau currently maintains an office in Tel Aviv, Israel, where it coordinates with Israel’s security apparatus and maintains a department liaison. Weiner appears to serve as a bridge between the Bureau’s offices in Israel and New York.
The NYPD liaison in Israel has sent “hourly” updates to NYPD headquarters in lower Manhattan since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, per NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner
— Bahar Ostadan (@BaharOstadan) January 31, 2024
A 2011 Associated Press investigation revealed that a so-called “Demographics Unit” operated secretly within the NYPD’s Counterterrorism and Intelligence Bureau. This shadowy outfit spied on Muslims around the New York City area, and even on students at campuses outside the state who were involved in Palestine solidarity activism.
The unit was developed in tandem with the C.I.A., which has refused to name the former Middle East station chief it posted in the senior ranks of the NYPD’s intelligence division.
The “Demographics Unit” appears to have been inspired by Israeli intelligence as well. As a former police official told the AP, the unit attempted to “map the city’s human terrain” through a program “modeled in part on how Israeli authorities operate in the West Bank.”
A lawyer by training, Weiner oversaw negotiations between the NYPD and lawyers for local Muslims who had their civil liberties violated by its “Demographics Unit.”
Weiner is the granddaughter of Stanislaw Ulam, the Polish Jewish mathematician who helped conceive the hydrogen bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. “I’m very proud of that legacy,” Weiner said of her grandfather’s work upon being appointed as NYPD intelligence chief.
During the NYPD’s triumphant May 1 post-raid press conference, Weiner blamed “outside agitators” for triggering the military-style police crackdown at Columbia. However, she refused to name the outsiders supposedly on the scene.
According to Weiner, the police response was not necessitated by any criminal behavior, but by the radical language and symbols of the students. “This is not about students expressing ideas,” she claimed. The real problem, Weiner maintained, was the alleged “change in tactics” by protesters, which she said represented “a normalization and mainstreaming of rhetoric associated with terrorism.”
Rebecca Weiner, head of the NYPD "counter-terrorism" bureau, identifies one of the threats that supposedly necessitated the Columbia raid: "Mainstreaming of rhetoric associated with Terrorism." No question this is recasting political speech as "Terrorism." She also blames TikTok pic.twitter.com/nqz5NuetPu
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 1, 2024
Proof of this dynamic, Weiner suggested, could be seen in what she claimed was the “common” trend of wearing of “headbands associated with foreign terrorist organizations” on college campuses; the “reissuing of Osama Bin Laden’s 2002 letter to America” on TikTok; and a brief visit to Columbia by Nahla Al-Arian, who Weiner incorrectly described as “the wife of somebody who had been convicted for material support to terrorism.”
“That’s not somebody who I would want necessarily influencing my child if I were a parent of somebody at Columbia,” Weiner commented.
Nahla’s husband, Palestinian academic Sami Al-Arian, had been indicted on flimsy terrorism charges in 2003, but a jury refused to convict him. Nevertheless, her brief stop at the Columbia encampment — where she says she did not even interact with any demonstrators — was cited by Adams during three separate media engagements to justify the police repression.
CNN’s @thelauracoates just smeared @SamiAlArian, whose wife apparently visited the Columbia encampment a few days ago in solidarity, as a “convicted terrorist.” This is a malicious lie.
He was never convicted of terrorism. He was charged in a bogus case under the Patriot Act.… pic.twitter.com/mi9CbacGcS
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) May 1, 2024
Throughout the press conference, Mayor Adams repeatedly cast the city’s crackdown on student speech as the only possible solution to ongoing campus encampments, citing undefined threats to the minds of impressionable youth.
“There is a movement to radicalize young people, and I’m not gonna wait until it’s done and all of a sudden acknowledge the existence of it,” Adams proclaimed.
“Young people are being influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children,” he insisted, without specifying. “And I’m not gonna allow that to happen as the mayor of the city of New York.”
After angrily proclaiming that his “uncle died defending this country,” Adams declared: “It’s despicable that schools will allow another country’s flag to fly in our country.”
However, as an enthusiastic participant in New York City’s annual Celebrate Israel parade, Adams is no stranger to waving another country’s flag.
Wyatt Reed is the managing editor of The Grayzone. As an international correspondent, he’s covered stories in over a dozen countries. Follow him on Twitter at @wyattreed13.
The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.
American Jews who are loyal to Israel while having zero loyalty to the U.S. also run the Democrat party.
The Democrat party also runs Washington D.C. as most U.S. government workers are Democrat party loyalists.
Thus, 3% of the U.S. population dominate and control our government, the media, Wall Street and many U.S. corporations.
The most surprising aspect of this is why the other 97% tolerate it.
Democrats win by deceiving black voters that Republicans and most white people are racist.
And by convincing women voters that Republicans are misogynist and want to control women by restricting abortion.
It would be comical except that so many people are dim enough to believe the lies.
I’m not surprised to hear that the Israelis are involved. I am surprised that they’re so open about it, even naming one of their operatives.
Our Western world being infiltrated by US`rael and all in the name of a long vanished ‘democracy’.
Rebecca Weiner is identified in the Columbia SIPA tweet and on the School of International and Public Affairs web site as an adjunct professor. In academia, adjuncts are second-class citizens — they get paid squat, and have no job security, unlike tenured faculty. Interesting, that a second-class adjunct is civilian executive in charge of the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence & Counterterrorism Bureau?? Wow, there’s more going on here than meets the eye… Her adjunct status looks like cover for something big.
hxxps://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/rebecca-weiner
People with full-time jobs, such as she has, teach as adjuncts on the side, mostly to share their experience with students, as most adjuncts are poorly paid. The ‘second-class status’ you refer to in this case doesn’t really apply.
56 yrs. ago today at Columbia:
“..In order to play on 3 May 1968 on a closed campus, The Grateful Dead had to be ‘smuggled’ on campus to Low Library Plaza in the back of a bread delivery truck. Equipment and all. We were already jamming away before the security and police could stop us.” wiki.
Instead of the Dead, we have Zionist Weiner plants. Surely there’s a Weiner on every major University campus enforcing “intellectual safety” at all times so Seinfeld jr. will never have a thought challenged, never be asked difficult questions, and never ever made to FEEL uncomfortable at the site of a Palestinian flag.
So is that pronounced Weiner like the hot dog or male protuberance, or Whiner, like someone who Whines?
Yep, those headbands sure are dangerous! The headbands actually should be convicted of manslaughter, right? Or even genocide! Genocidal headbands! Boycott those headbands.
You know someone is acting crazy when the tire is flat and they kick the cat.
Arriving without Pigpen’s standard keyboards, they borrowed my Vox portable organ to use for that gig. I was a junior at Columbia College then. Ultimately, they performed on the terrace of the student center, Ferris Booth Hall. Columbia, my alma mater: you suck. Despite my undergrad and three postgrad degrees from you, I will never say another positive word about you — except to praise the courageous pro-Palestinian students, who like the anti-imperialist students in ’68 were treated like scum, like practice dummies for violence by the Fascist NYPD, once again at your invitation, A disgrace.
They’re all off their heads:
Xxxx//www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/03/scott-morrison-plans-for-your-good-prime-ministers-testimony-of-gods-faithfulness
This one talks to god, and god talks back. OMGodzilla.
(And remember, if you talk to god you are praying. If god talks to you, you are schizophrenic.)
So, Weiner’s connections with Israeli intelligence is okay? Since when is it okay for someone with the kind of power she has to drop the hammer on Columbia students to have connections with and be influenced by a foreign government? Sounds like she is the one who should be ousted for clearly flying the flag of a foreign government on the grounds of a United States university. If she is unable to name the names of outside influencers, she may be open to a lawsuit for defamation by the students, as well as should Mayor Adams. He is concerned about undue influence brought to bear on our young people, but the last time I checked, University students are legally adults and responsible for their own actions.
She is just one fifth columnist with links to Israel in the US. It very reasonable to assume we have hundreds of these Israeli security agents throughout all large US cities, and selected institutions like universities. It would be naive to believe otherwise.
I agree.
JZ they have, what, hundreds if potential operators? Wake up dude, it’s a Pys-Ops attack! Designed to suck up resources. Divert attention and cast the community into chaos.
Ya’ ll are going to need to understand we are in an open street fight. Direct physical contact, something to be avoided at all costs. A violent response serves no one well. Can you say ambush? Learn your foe and whip them with non-violence
But what the hell do I know.
Other than that you are 100% right. We can right, 100%, but when the other is a 100% wrong and T-bones your vehicle, . . . well . . .your vehicle, being 100% in the right, no blame’, position, well it’s still totaled.
Grumpa , from the “Midlands of the great state of confusion, Illinois !
Ya’ ll have a good evening.
I agree completely, Robert, but its a matter of how does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time, brother, one bite at a time.
Hear, hear.
“Outside agitators”- anybody old enough to recognize that phrase and remember the cause it was used to defend?
The phrase was used in the 1967 movie The Graduate. Mr. McCleary, the owner or manager of the boardinghouse in Berkeley in which the main character Ben Braddock was getting a room, warned Ben that he would not stand for any outside agitators. The movie came out when I was in high school, and I saw it when I was in college.
The protests against the Vietnam war were getting going right at that time.
I think the term “outside agitators” refers to white southerners descriptions of people, particularly northerners, who travelled throughout the south in the era of the civil rights movement. The northern people were seen as foreign, coming from outside the American south, in order to change a racial system they were not able to understand. It seems that Rebecca Weiner, a duel intelligence agent of the US and Israel, has warmed up to her, er, mission of supporting the racist, Zionist state of Israel, and would feel at home with some of the basest, bigoted citizens of the USA. In fact, she is the outsider here; but maybe, just maybe, she is at home here precisely because, in some perverse way, the zionists are now occupying the power centers of the US government.
Yes, indeed. As Yogi Berra famously said, “It’s deja vu all over again.”
Of course, it was used by people like Ross Barnet, Lester Maddox and Bull Connor against anyone supporting black suffrage. It was a common trope used by white sheriffs, a slightly less offensive term that was a substitute for ” n**lover.” Everyone knew what “outside agitator” meant. Either Adams is ignorant, or he wants to go back to those times.
big TQ for posting this, The Grayzone is brilliant. the whole situation surrounding the student protests, the outrageous degree of violence, subterfuge and mealy-mouthed officials is eerily reminiscent of J6. untill…. – hxxps://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestine-protests-university-alabama-joe-biden-chants-1896395
Many thanks for the good reporting .As usually happens ,the truth of the matter has now had light shed on it .Also thanks to CN for this report .
The monumental bullshit about terrorism is simply an excuse to suppress all opposition to a foreign policy of belligerence and aggression conducted at the expense of US taxpayers. The lion’s share of terrorism in the US is being conducted by US authorities.
Israel still faces several problems and they are big ones. The protests against it reflect only what it has done so far, and as it promises to continue its cruel assaults so the protests against it will intensify. Then it has the problem of what the irregular Muslim forces standing against it and the Arab states surrounding it may do if its inhumanity becomes intolerable. Then it has to consider what the west may no longer be able to do for it when Russia and its allies have finished with us.
Zionism is in peril and its unacceptable cruelty no longer to be tolerated has caused it.
By your Western assessment, it sounds like the pivotal point for intolerable is “until the last non-Jewish Arab Palestinian”!
How many premeditated murders of innocents’ of nJAP’s (reminds one of the ghosts of Nagasaki and Hiroshima) are tolerable in Palestine, between cause and effect?
Thinking ’out loud’ is yet to be prohibited?
It should be noted that Mayor Eric Adams is a religious kook. Yes that is what he is.
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hxxps://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/adams-demonic-energy/
hxxps://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/nyc-mayor-adams-warns-of-demonic-energy-engulfing-world/
Adams is a nut in more ways than one. Horrible, horrible mayor.
The Mayor is indeed a religious kook. He should not be in public office.
Wow. I followed one of the Twitter links and learned that the NYPD has outposts in Tucson AZ and Bogotá Colombia to “monitor the situation at the border.” OK, didn’t know that was under NYPD purview. They also have a liaison with the Israeli government. If this happens in a city police department with limited reach, I shudder to think what the Feds – with their multi- billion $ black ops budgets -are doing here and abroad.
“It’s despicable that schools will allow another country’s flag to fly in our country.”
So much for freedom of speech.
(Madly waving Ukrainian flags in Congress is fine, of course.)
Ah, but Ukraine Israel are seemingly part of the US now. They’re not foreign countries at all. Add two more stars to the flag.
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
Isaac Asimov
I long ago changed that saying “in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,” to “the one-eyed man is a freak.”
Now I know better, the “one-eyed man is a threat.”
The Zionists who basically run the show in Washington are really taking the mask off, they’re ruling directly and openly now, shredding the First Amendment and exposing themselves to the normies in Peoria.
The eventual backlash against them will be inevitable.