A notorious professional protester with past ties to multiple
controversial anti-Israel efforts was spotted among the rioters who broke
into a Columbia University building and occupied it this week, according
to police.

Lisa Fithian, 63, was captured in footage taken outside Hamilton Hall � an
academic building on the Ivy League�s Morningside Heights campus that
protesters, some of them masked, stormed the around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

A lifelong agitator, Fithian in the mid-2010s was raking in $300 per day
training unions and other activist groups in the basics of demonstration
and disruption, Mother Jones reported in 2012.

She has frequently thrown her energies behind pro-Palestinian causes � and
even celebrated her birthday earlier this month in Istanbul, Turkey, where
she was �training the participants on the next Flotilla to Gaza in the
coming week,� according to an Instagram post.

�It is long past time for this violent Israeli Occupation to end,� Fithian
said in a 2018 profile for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

�This hateful Israeli occupation of Palestine is not only doing harm and
causing death for the Palestinians, it is harming the water, the land and
the soul of the Israelis,� she insisted, adding that a �global wave rising
for justice will not cease until Palestine is free.�

https://nypost.com/2024/05/01/us-news/professional-protester-lisa-
fithians-past-ties-to-anti-israel-work/