The Conservative Cave

When the NYPD moved in on the New York University pro-Hamas occupiers Monday night, professors formed a human chain to block the cops — neatly revealing a huge part of the problem in US academia.

Remember: The issue was the protesters’ decision to seize a central part of the campus in a bid to blackmail the school into divesting from Israel over the Hamas war — and their hateful intimidation of those who disagree.

This wasn’t free speech (nor even orderly civil disobedience), but the reverse: using force to impose their beliefs.

And these faculty fully endorsed that radical, deeply liberal action.

Angry protesters at NYU’s anti-Israel demonstration pelted NYPD officers with bottles as they raided the demonstration late Monday – with someone even bashing a cop’s helmet with a chair, a top department official said.

The NYPD moved onto the Greenwich Village campus, with permission from the university, when the camped-out group failed to disperse from Gould Plaza around 4 p.m., Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry told WABC Tuesday morning.

Community Affairs cops made the first attempt, before the department’s Strategic Response Group filed in, Daughtry said.

Some members of the crowd “chose violence” and whacked the responding cops with bottles, with one hitting a cop on his helmet with a chair, the police official tweeted, alongside a photo of the mark the blow left on the hardhat.

A total of 120 people were taken into custody at the private university Monday — with 116 of them slapped with summonses for trespassing and four getting desk appearance tickets for charges that included resisting arrest.

 None of the charges are of a level that will result in a criminal record.

The faculty members who participated in the demonstration were the “most aggressive,” Daughtry said.

Democrats have been working nonstop for the last several years in their effort to stop Trump. What more can they do?