Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik is drawing national scrutiny asdays of pro-Palestinian protestscontinue on the campus in New York City. Shafiktestified before Congress last weekas part of a se
In October of 2023, weeks after the Hamas attacks on Israel,Columbia University’sbrand-new president, Minouche Shafik, asked Nicholas Lemann, dean emeritus of the journalism school, to co-chair a Task Force on Antisemitism. Like elite campuses around the country, Columbia was roiled by campus ...
In an April 17 hearing with the committee, Columbia President Minouche Shafik said Sidechat was "poisonous" and that "probably the most egregious cases that we've seen of antisemitism, Islamophobia, racist comments have been on social media on those anonymous channels." In February, a 114-page...
But Shafik did not spell out a position on one of the most divisive phrases associated with pro-Palestinian protests, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Many critics of the phrase argue that it is antisemitic because it amounts to a call for the destruction of Israel...
Calls are growing for Columbia's president, Nemat "Minouche" Shafik, to resign, as Columbia goes fully remote in an effort to deescalate the situation. The entire Republican congressional New York delegation called for Shafik's resignation Monday, accusing her of failing to keep student...