A Columbia University professor tells Fox News Digital that the anti-Israel demonstrations unfolding on the Ivy League campus at the end of the day are no longer about the Jewish State or Palestinians, but about “whether mob violence can bring our great university to a halt.” 

Law professor Joshua Mitts spoke Tuesday after a group of agitators invaded Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall, shattering windows and barricading doors using tables and chairs. 

“When you have a group of students — it’s really a small group, I don’t believe even the majority of protesters support things like this — when you have a small group that is committed to destroying property and shutting down campus life, that is the moment that we, the faculty, need to stand behind the administration and say ‘it’s time to restore order, it is time to bring back the calm, academic environment that Columbia stands for,’” Mitts told Fox News Digital. 

“And if you were concerned about cracking down on peaceful protesters, I hope the events of this morning have convinced you that there is at least a group out there who are not interested in peaceful protests at all,” he added. 

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Mitts is one of the now more than 2,000 Columbia alumni, faculty members and parents of students that have signed a statement calling on President Minouche Shafik to crack down on antisemitism and restore safety. 

“We understand that she may be constrained by faculty resistance to calling the police after what happened almost two weeks ago,” Mitts said, referencing a recent wave of arrests by the NYPD. “But at the end of the day, I think we have to ask ourselves, ‘are we serving our students by allowing this sort of chaos and anarchy to consume our campus?’ It might be hard, but we have to grow up, we have to restore order to campus.” 

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Members of an anti-Israel mob broke into Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning.  (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

“At the end of the day, this isn’t really about Israel or Palestine, it’s about whether mob violence can bring our great university to a halt,” Mitts added. 

Mitts told Fox News Digital that the “antisemitism on campus has been horrifying,” and added, “The question I would ask the protesters is, what is really your goal? If your goal is to help the Palestinians, then let’s work together to achieve that goal.” 

A member of the maintenance crew confronted the protesters after he claimed he was held hostage inside Hamilton Hall in New York City on Tuesday. (Alex Kent/Getty Images)

“While the police coming onto campus is a painful moment in Columbia’s history, the alternative that we are seeing right now, buildings being taken over, windows smashed, Jewish students fearing for their safety — this is not an alternative that is sustainable for our community,” he also said. 

In a shocking move, the Suffolk District Attorney in Massachusetts announced on Tuesday that there will be no criminal charges filed in connection to the investigation involving the disturbing discovery of four newborn babies found wrapped in tin foil inside a freezer in the home of a Boston woman who “concealed her pregnancies.”

“This investigation, which is one of the most complex, unusual and perplexing that this office has ever encountered, is now complete. While we have some answers, there are many elements of this case that will likely never be answered,” DA Kevin Hayden said in a press release.

On the afternoon of Nov. 17, 2022, Boston police responded to a home for a 911 call about a possible baby located inside a freezer. The call was later updated to involve multiple babies, according to officials. The caller explained that he and his wife made the grisly discovery while cleaning out his sister’s South Boston apartment.

Investigators determined that the apartment was owned and occupied by 69-year-old Alexis Aldamir. 

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In all, four babies were discovered that day. Investigators said all four were frozen solid in shoe boxes wrapped in foil. Two were male and two were female, and DNA tests determined that they were all siblings. They were also believed to be between 37 and 40 weeks.

The medical examiner reported that there was no scientific method to determine how long the babies had been frozen. The autopsy found no signs of internal or external trauma and no evidence of obvious injuries. The report also noted that there were no signs of food, or milk, or formula inside the babies’ stomachs.

The medical examiner also found the cause of death for all the babies to be “undetermined” and that it could not definitively determine whether the babies had been born alive.

Investigators were able to locate Aldamir in a residential healthcare facility, and eventually gained a court order to obtain a DNA sample. The results confirmed she was the mother of the four babies.

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The grisly discovery was made while cleaning out a woman’s South Boston apartment. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald)

Co-workers of Aldamir, who was employed by an accounting firm in Boston from March 1980 to October 2021, described her as a “heavy-set woman who had a penchant for wearing loose-fitting clothing regardless of the season.” They also told investigators that they had no idea she was pregnant. 

Additional DNA testing revealed that the father of all four babies had died in 2011 and that Aldamir had given birth to one baby girl in April 1982.

Investigators also found two parental rights surrender forms, one signed by Aldamir and the other signed by the individual determined to be the father of the four frozen babies.

Through their investigation, officials determined that Aldamir had five children with the same man and that they gave one of their children up for adoption. The other four were found dead in Aldamir’s apartment in November 2022.

Investigators stated that they ran into several challenges when working to determine if any crimes could be proved. 

First, to charge any homicide, investigators said there must be evidence that the victims were alive. There must also be a cause of death determined by the medical examiner.

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When investigators questioned Alexis Aldamir about what they found, she “appeared confused and demonstrated a lack of understanding about where she was and who she was speaking to.” (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

In this case, investigators cannot prove that the babies were ever alive, and they have no cause or manner of death.

Second, investigators said the autopsy found no signs of internal or external trauma to the babies and no evidence of obvious injuries.

Third, since the father is now deceased, investigators said he cannot not be charged with any crimes.

Lastly, investigators stated that Aldamir’s ability to stand trial was also in question. 

When Aldamir was later questioned about the babies found in her apartment, she “appeared confused and demonstrated a lack of understanding about where she was and who she was speaking to,” according to investigators.

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“A prosecutor’s office cannot ethically move forward with a case that, in good faith, it believes it cannot bring to trial. Here, based on the evidence obtained throughout the investigation, including the many unanswered questions about the cause of death of the four babies, prosecutors have made the determination that they will not be able to bring this case to trial. Therefore, this investigation will not result in criminal charges,” Hayden concluded.