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Columbia U’s Prez Disappears as Campus Morphs into Hotbed of Jew Hatred

By Sholom Schreirber
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Columbia has become the ultimate hotbed of Jewish hate as pro-Hamas students have seized the campus while intimidating Jews. Credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

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Does it make you mad that on Sunday April 21st Columbia Chabad Rabbi Elie Buechler told the 1,500 Jewish students, over a quarter of the school, to leave campus since it was no longer a safe place to learn? Or that out of the thousands of anti-Jewish protestors spewing venom on Jewish students for the past 6 months the only two who remain suspended by Columbia through May 2025 are Jews who sprayed harmless fart spray on these protestors? Or that Columbia hasn’t fired one anti-Semitic professor since October 7th?

Or that Governor Hochul fails to call in the National Guard to arrest Columbia students protesting, throwing things and punching Jewish students on campus with more rabid anti-Semites surrounding the gate leading other college campuses to follow suit? Or that President Minouche Shafik doesn’t consider calls for the annihilation of Israel or glorifying the intifada anti-Semitic? Or that after months of Columbia professors praising Hamas’s atrocities the only professor being investigated, according to Shafik, for harassment was the lone Jewish voice fighting back Shai Davidai? Or that Jewish students, who are over a quarter of the campus, are hiding in their dorms, as chants calling for their death reverberate in their beds!

The shocking fact that Columbia and Barnard have closed their campus to non-students, resulting in hour long waits for students to scan ID’s to enter, means the thousands of radical Islamists photographed on campus holding Arab prayers and screaming “Fuck Israel” and praising Hamas martyrs are matriculated students-meaning this problem isn’t going anywhere.

Columbia’s President Minouche Shafik testified before a congressional House committee over the failed university’s response to a burgeoning Jew hatred. Credit: AP Photo/Miriam Zuhaib

Those outside the gates are even more venomous pushing and assaulting people as the NYPD helplessly watches without any directive from party hopping Mayor-Eric Adams-who talks a good game with slogans like “Never Again is Now” while “never” producing concrete results. Who exactly are the terrorists screaming and assaulting others outside the gates? They are a domestic terrorist group called “Within Our Lifetime” led by head Jew hater Nerdeen Kiswani who flouted her ban from Columbia’s campus for incitement of violence as she was pictured in the past few days lauding Hamas calling for the eradication of Israel and the takeover of universities. While the NYPD on campus is banned by Columbia: Violent Jew hater Nerdeen Kiswani is welcomed with a wedding ceremony.

 

Witnessing the pathetic testimony on Wednesday of Shafik along with her supercilious, incompetent supporting cast: professor David Schizer and Board of Trustees Co-chairs Claire Shipman and David Greenwald was astounding. They admitted within the last six months they had been unable to come up with a definition for anti-Semitism ultimately allowing students to scream “fuck Jews” with no repercussions.

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Despite Shafik’s fake British accent her three hour performance-in the words of the Brits-was bloody awful. She lied, obfuscated, hesitated, and was completely overwhelmed by the questioning after preparing for months. When asked if Shafik was hiring more professors to combat the anti-Semitic bent of the Middle East Department or if professor’s views on Israel were being taken into account her repeated response was “no but moving forward” we will.

The phrase “moving forward” by a current president means “I stink at what I do”, “I am totally unprepared for this hearing” and “I have been derelict in all my current duties.” The congressional House committee, led by Virginia Foxx, saw right through her as they relentlessly questioned her failed response to a burgeoning Jew hatred that has become de rigueur in the halls of academia making this horror show readily predictable.

On that fateful Wednesday April 18th a five-day-protest began where unlawful Gaza solidarity encampments littered the campus requiring the NYPD to make over 108 arrests- the first time they have been called to the Columbia campus in over 50 years. All those hate spewing anti-Semites were released hours later after claiming to be emboldened by their ability to shut the campus down and receive nationwide attention. The Keffiyeh clad protestors told Jewish students October 7th would be repeated over 10,000 times while pro-Jewish Israeli Arab Yoseph Haddad was punched in the face as anti-Jewish violence becomes commonplace.

The origins of these hearings began December 5th 2023 when Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and MIT failed to answer Rep. Elise Stefanik’s simple question as to whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated their code of conduct- ultimately resulting in the removal of both Harvard and U of Penn’s Presidents Claudine Gay and Elizabeth Magill. Minouche Shafik’s absence in December was due to “a scheduling conflict” biding herself a much needed four months to prepare her testimony and implement phony safeguards for Jewish students.

Unfortunately for Shafik, being the sole focus of a three hour inquiry proved detrimental as she revealed she was feckless and uninformed as the beleaguered administrator failed to check if anti-Semitic professor Joseph Massad was still teaching and admitted she was lax in combating anti-Semitism. Acknowledging she prepared hundreds of hours with dozens of lawyers for this inquiry made Shafik’s admissions more reprehensible and attested to her unsuitability for the presidency.

Shafik, newly appointed as of July 2023, manifested at Wednesday’s hearing that the school’s out-of-control pervasively violent anti-Semitism during the past six months is no accident; House members were in concurrence that at best Shafik was clueless and weak as her campus was overrun by Hamas supporters. At worst she is a covert anti-Semite allowing claims of freedom of speech to outweigh Jewish students concerns over personal safety as she fails to close down the campus and throw out unlawful protestors. Since when is 24-hour trespassing and sleeping on University property allowed? The newly signed petition of 100 Jewish students requesting to learn remotely, means the school is no longer safe for alternative pro-Jewish political views and as such Columbia University must close its doors immediately.

Who is Minouche Shafik and how did she become President of Columbia after an unimpressive stint as President of the London School of Economics for 6 years? An acolyte of Bill and Melinda Gates who serves on their foundation Board the 62-year-old Minouche is Egyptian born and counts arabic as one of her first languages. Born in Alexandria to a wealthy landowning family she fled Egypt when she was 4 after the Egyptian government seized her father’s property forcing her family to move to Savannah, Georgia in the mid-1960’s. Despite a recent New York Times profile and dozens of articles written about Minouche her parents names are nowhere to be found and so we are left with the quandary as to why her family remains so enigmatic and what their true identities are. Her parents are referred to as educators on Wikipedia and yet where and what they have taught remain a mystery. Shafik’s prominent position at Columbia University can be attributed to her close connection to Bill and Melinda Gates who have donated more than $70 million to Columbia since 1999.

Over the past nine months Shafik’s tenure at Columbia has been unremarkable-that was until October 7th when Columbia University became Ground Zero for dangerous demonstrations with keffiyeh wearing students overtaking the campus as chants of “fuck the Jews”, “long live the intifada”, “we will honor all the martyrs”, “there is no safe place death to the Zionist state”, “we will distract you in the streets and turn your life into nightmares” have become typical intimidating jargon greeting Jewish students on campus while Shafik remains missing in action.

Rep. Elise Stefanik questioned Columbia President Minouche Shafik during the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on “Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University’s Response to Anti-Semitism on Capitol Hill. Credit: House.gov

Since the October 7th massacre where Hamas raped, murdered and beheaded thousands of Israelis a blatantly naked anti-Semitism has emerged resulting in the tearing down of hostage posters depicting infants and teenagers tortured by Hamas. Columbia has become the ultimate hotbed of Jewish hate as pro-Palestinian students who signed an October 9th letter empathizing with Hamas’s “military action” were subsequently backed up by 170 Columbia faculty members on October 30th urging Columbia’s leadership to protect Jew hating students while themselves labeling Israel an apartheid state.

It wasn’t until top Columbia donors such as Leon Cooperman threatened to boycott that Shafik outlawed Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on November 10th after weekly demonstrations on Columbia’s campus supporting Hamas and calling for the violent elimination of the Jewish people and Israel made the campus unlivable. In March, Columbia considered reinstating these dangerous organizations while tacitly permitting them to endure as they held weekly unauthorized demonstrations threatening Jewish students.

Student bodies never exist in a vacuum as dozens of Columbia teachers promulgate and encourage rabid Jew hatred. The most glaring is Joseph Massad a tenured professor of modern Arab politics and history who has been teaching at the Ivy League School for the past 25 years and has called Israel a racist state while praising Hamas’s October 7th attack as “awesome” “astounding” and a “stunning victory for the Palestinian resistance”.

He also chairs the Academic Review Committee and when asked by House Committee Members Tim Walberg and Elise Stefanik if he was still chair Minouche falsely responded no and claimed he was reprimanded while conceding she was unsure if he still teaches. Massad refuted these claims in a written statement to CNN by saying he is not under any Columbia investigation, has never been reprimanded nor removed as chair of the Academic Review Committee. In fact his chair, Gil Hochberg, told Massad she and her Israeli 14-year-old son applauded his descriptive anti-Israel article.

This is just one of many lies told by Shafik who claimed the University had suspended 15 students in relation to antisemitism when in fact according to Chairwoman of the House Committee Virginia Foxx only three students were given interim suspensions between October and March all of which had been lifted. Seeing there are no consequences to pay has made Columbia the ultimate breeding ground for Jew hatred.

Other Jew hating professors include Mohamed Abdou who was brought on as a visiting Columbia scholar for the Spring 2024 semester to teach a weekly class on “Decolonial-Queerness and Abolition” after having posted immediately after October 7th “Yes I’m with Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.”

When asked by House member Kevin Kiley if he had been fired Shafik could not respond adequately instead saying he had been asked to leave and that she was unsure when but pDonatebalance of naturelaced it a couple of weeks ago-coincidentally close to the hearing. He has recently been seen on campus participating in “fuck Israel” protests. As a visiting professor he was asked not to come back and never actively fired despite his reprehensible remarks. Shafik waited until April 7th to denounce the horrific “Hamas terrorist attack in Israel” right before the hearings producing snarks from a weary student body.

The list of Shafik’s transgressions are endless: Professor Rashid Khalidi a former PLO spokesman who said in 2016 that the pro-Israel Trump team members had “infested the government” and called Israel a “colonial power engaging in ethnic cleansing and legalized lawlessness” continues to teach. Current Iranian studies and literature professor Hamid Dabashi continues unscathed despite a Facebook post in 2018 calling Israel a “key actor in every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world” and said “these laughing hyenas-the Zionists the Saudis and the US neocons are fucking with the wrong country.” Shafik said none of these professors had been spoken to since there were no complaints against them.

This festering anti-Semitism has gone unchecked for decades as Shafik told representative Kevin Kiley she was unsure if chants of “free Palestine from the River to the Sea” “long live the intifada” or calls for BDS-boycott, divestment and sanctioning-were anti-Semitic. Paradoxically, Columbia’s own Anti-Semitism Task Force established in March refuses to say what anti-Semitism is revealing it encourages pro-Palestinian hate speech.

 

Despite the threats of violence and intimidation and the storming of classrooms the only students that remain suspended until May 2025 under Shafik are Jewish students who sprayed a harmless fart spray on anti-Israel protestors in January which Israel hating Ilhan Omar, whose net worth is $83 million, incorrectly referred to as a “noxious chemical substance” that required student hospitalization. Predictably, Shafik did not dispute Omar’s faulty characterization. In fact, Omar’s Barnard attending daughter “whom she was enormously proud of” was temporarily suspended at the protests-as the Jew hating apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The only teacher out of the 3700 faculty members to stand up to Columbia’s pro-Hamas bullies is Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School who was quickly thrown under the bus by Minouche who claimed under questioning from Omar that Davidai, who called Minouche a “lying coward”, was being investigated for 50 harassment complaints by students.

As students overrun an already frightening campus anti-Semites such as 77-year-old actress Susan Sarandon and machete carrying ex Cooper Union professor Shellyne Rodriguez run to the Columbia campus to enjoy the Jew hating fun fest. After calling the NYPD after over ten hours of Jew Hating chants on Thursday April 18th because Shafik said “extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary steps” all 108 arrested students were released from custody that evening and the Gaza encampment was moved to the opposite lawn.

Columbia U has become “Ground Zero” for dangerous demonstrations with keffiyeh wearing students overtaking the campus with chants of “fuck the Jews”, “long live the intifada” and “we will honor all the martyrs.” Credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer

The fact that Shafik considered the removal of violent threatening students “an extraordinary step” is noteworthy, as the following day their protests continued unfettered with an escalation in aggression. With only Columbia and Barnard students permitted on campus half hour lines to enter the University continue to make the situation untenable as hate group “Within Our Lifetime” (WOL) berates students outside.

After Columbia University’s successful protests Anti-Israel Non Governmental Organizations (NGO’s) have been emboldened to seize campuses across the USA to force BDS with Yale, Harvard, Brown and Princeton following suit. This unchecked takeover is reminiscent of the 1940’s where hateful rhetoric ultimately led to the death of 6 million Jews. Jewish students are currently being forced out of institutions they helped build. This weekend has become a watershed moment in the takeover of hate speech as Jewish students flags are torched, while Jewish students are pushed and threatened with death-a triumph for Hamas and all its terrorist spewing acolytes.

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