Exclusive | Lawmakers call on FBI to do your job and investigate anti-Israel coalition at Columbia University: You have no excuse

Two Republican lawmakers are begging the FBI to “start protecting Jewish students” — by launching an investigation into an anti-Israel coalition at Columbia University that’s called for armed resistance and violence as recently as last week.In a letter obtained by The Post, Sen.Joni Ernst and House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik cite disturbing statements by a member of Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) — including “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists” — as reason for the crackdown.“Rarely has the FBI had such public and obvious evidence of potentially imminent violence,” the pair said in its Monday letter to James Dennehy, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office.“This cannot become another instance in which a terrible case of violence takes place at a school and the FBI issues a statement after the fact that the perpetrators were ‘on its radar,’ but did nothing.

Put simply, the writing is on the wall and you have no excuse.Do your job.”CUAD is comprised of about 116 student groups, many of which had been involved in the anti-Israel encampments at Columbia last spring.Last Tuesday, a day after the one-year anniversary of Hamas’ massacre in Israel, CUAD said it supported “liberation by any means necessary, including armed resistance” in a chilling Instagram post.“In the face of violence from the oppressor equipped with the most lethal military force on the planet, where you’ve exhausted all peaceful means of resolution, violence is the only path forward,” the group wrote.

“Long live Palestine, long live the Intifada, and long live the Resistance.”CUAD had also hailed a recent attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month as “a significant act of resistance.”Katrina Armstrong, the interim president of Columbia University, is copied on the lawmakers’ letter.“The FBI needs to stop sitting on its hands and...