At the start of 2024, AIM sent our infamous mobile billboards to campuses across the country as students returned from winter break. From the University of California, Berkeley to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, AIM exposed dozens of individuals responsible for spreading antisemitism on their campuses.
Throughout the year, AIM took a bold stand by exposing radical activists behind the disorderly and violent encampments on several campuses, urging university administrations to take decisive action. AIM President, Adam Guillette, shared his firsthand experiences from these campus encounters during an appearance on The Ingraham Angle.
Columbia University in New York became a focal point of AIM’s activism. Radical activists at Columbia not only harassed Jewish students by stalking them and obstructing their ability to attend classes, but they also set up a massive encampment that escalated into the occupation of Hamilton Hall, where a janitor was held hostage.
AIM activists spearheaded a powerful campaign, sending over 45,000 emails and making more than 1,000 calls to Columbia’s Board of Trustees, demanding the resignation of President Minouche Shafik and accountability for the campus crisis.
Thanks in part to AIM’s relentless efforts, Shafik ultimately resigned in disgrace in August. Her departure joins a growing list of university presidents who stepped down following AIM’s activism, including Harvard University’s Claudine Gay, the University of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill, and the University of Southern California’s Carol Folt.
AIM’s fight for accountability didn’t stop with Shafik’s resignation. Our team remained steadfast in exposing and confronting antisemites who refused to take responsibility for their actions. Among them was Isabella Giusti, arrested during Columbia’s encampment, whom AIM confronted at her multi-million-dollar family home in Savannah, Georgia.
AIM also targeted the prestigious law firm Debevoise & Plimpton five separate times in November and December to hold them accountable for hiring two of Columbia’s leading antisemites—despite the firm’s public commitment to “zero tolerance” for antisemitism in hiring. AIM’s activists continue to apply pressure, bombarding the firm’s leadership with emails and phone calls to demand accountability and answers for their hypocrisy.
Connected to our work at Columbia is our recent activism campaign at Virginia Military Institute. VMI awarded a prestigious fellowship and teaching role to Philip Crane, a Columbia University graduate and radical anti-American activist. Crane, as a student leader of an organization at Columbia, signed a letter blaming the October 7 attacks on Israel and America, yet graduated without facing any consequences. His extremist views make him unfit to teach the future military leaders of our nation.
Our activism campaign began on VMI’s most prominent day of the year—Founders Day—where thousands of students, staff, alumni, and donors were made aware of who Crane is. In response, VMI released a statement defending Crane and denying our findings. Undeterred, our team is collaborating with passionate VMI alumni to intensify the pressure on the administration to hold Crane accountable. So far, our work has gained significant coverage at both local and national levels, with our activists sending over 33,000 emails demanding action. The fight continues.
In May, our undercover investigators infiltrated one of the nation’s most violent anti-Israel encampments at the University of California, Los Angeles. The encampment, fortified with strategically placed wooden barricades, was more than a student-led protest—it was a hotspot for dangerous outside agitators. Among those exposed by AIM’s hidden cameras was a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party of America (RevCom). This agitator openly admitted to aiding the protests and revealed that the encampment was part of a larger mission: the destruction of America and the capitalist system.
AIM’s investigation revealed the deeper, radical agenda underpinning this unrest, exposing the forces actively working to destabilize our nation. It confirmed what we’ve long understood: antisemitism on campus is deeply intertwined with the radical Left’s Marxist vision of dismantling America and capitalism. This investigation provided further evidence of the disturbing realities unfolding at colleges across the country. Our investigation was featured in a Fox News “First on Fox” special, dominating headlines all day upon its release.
At the University of California, Irvine, numerous students were arrested for acts of violence during protests, yet the administration failed to hold any of them accountable. So AIM acted immediately, arriving on campus to demand answers and accountability. While there, a student expressed gratitude for AIM's presence, sharing how terrifying it was to witness peers openly calling for an “Intifada”—a term in this context referring to wiping Jews off the map—during the protests. He thanked us for standing up to such extremism at UC Irvine and for our broader work on campuses nationwide.
