Columbia University President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik testifies before a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on "Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism," on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 17, 2024. (photo credit: REUTERS/Ken Cedeno) Minouche Shafik, the Columbia ...
In this April 17, 2024, file photo, Columbia University President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik prepares to testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee during a hearing on Columbia University's response to antisemitism on Capitol Hill, in Washington, D.C.Francis Chun...
“We condemn the antisemitism that is so pervasive today,” Columbia President Nemat Shafik said in an opening statement. “Antisemitism has no place on our campus, and I am personally committed to doing everything I can to confront it directly.” Shafik was c...
Columbia University President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik testified Wednesday before a congressional committee investigating antisemitism on the New York City campus after two of her counterparts at other elite colleges resigned amid abacklashover their responses at a ...
For months, tensions have been boiling on campus between pro-Israel and anti-Israel protesters, and the university has found itself at the centre of ongoing congressional hearings over antisemitism on campus. “We need a reset,” President Nemat Shafik announced Monday morn...
Columbia University president speaks to Congress Four months after a contentious congressional hearing led to the resignations of two Ivy League presidents, Columbia University’s president unequivocally denounced antisemitism on her campus during an appearance before the same committee. Nemat Shafik is reb...
New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. Omar had questioned Columbia's president, Nemat Shafik, at ahearing Wednesday in...
Earlier on Monday, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University surrounded the encampment as administrators threatened to suspend and evict participating students. University President Nemat Shafik sent an... See full article at Rollingstone.com...
US Congress has subpoenaed Nemat Shafik, president of Columbia University, which has been a hotbed of tensions since the war’s start with Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
Last week, at the behest of Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, the NYPD arrested 108 people during pro-Palestinian protests on the university campus. Law enforcement officials subsequently dismantled the encampment located on the university’s South Lawn. “That was an exceptional case,...