Antisemitic Columbia University President Minouche Shafik Resigns After Catastrophic Tenure

Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigned on Wednesday, just weeks before students are set to return to campus for the fall semester and 13 months after she assumed the job. Under her leadership, the once prestigious university has become ground zeroof Jew-hatred, terrorism support and violent protest.

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Shafik’s departure comes in the wake of a series of scandals that have roiled the school stemming from the anti-Israel and frequently anti-Semitic protests that roiled the Morningside Heights campus over the past several months.

The most recent led to the resignation last week of three deans following a Washington Free Beacon report revealing the offensive, anti-Semitic text messages they exchanged during an alumni reunion panel on Jewish life held in late May.

Related: Federal Judge Slams UCLA for Standing By as Jewish Students Were Barred From Parts of Campus

Good riddance! Minouche Shafik resigns as President of @Columbia. Under her leadership, the once prestigious university has become the campus epicenter of Jew-hatred, antisemitism and home for Hamas apologists. pic.twitter.com/y2yd6WnSjW

— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) August 15, 2024

An important part of the problem at @Columbia is that President Shafik denies that anti-Jewish protests have taken place on campus.

Here is her congressional testimony under oath from four days ago: pic.twitter.com/39n6KAaT5d

— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 22, 2024

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Sayonara, Minouche Shafik. The Columbia University president, whose 13-month tenure will be remembered for her failure to forestall the break-in and occupation of a university building by a bunch of entitled, ignorant brats student activists, announced on Wednesday evening that she was throwing in the towel. 

“I write with sadness to tell you that I am stepping down as president of Columbia University effective August 14, 2024,” Shafik wrote in an email to members of the Columbia community.

“However, it has also been a period of turmoil where it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our community. … Over the summer, I have been able to reflect and have decided that my moving on at this point would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges ahead.” Truth!

Say what you will, but Shafik lasted a full seven months longer than Harvard’s Claudine Gay, who spent six months in the job. She follows three of her anti-Semitic colleagues, who resigned last week in the wake of a series of Free Beacon reports about their abhorrent anti-Semitic text messages, out the door. The Free Beacon‘s Eliana Johnson has the full story here.

Out on the West Coast, Tuesday evening brought the first court ruling against an American university relating to the disruptive and violent protests that engulfed campuses in the spring. In that decision, federal district court judge Mark Scarsi said that UCLA cannot allow anti-Israel radicals to block Jewish students’ access to parts of campus.

That is precisely what led three Jewish students to file suit against the school in June. We reported at the time that the students “were prohibited from passing through what the lawsuit calls the ‘Jew Exclusion Zone’ … One was barred from walking through the encampment to attend class, while another was ‘harassed and blocked from approaching the encampment by anti-Semitic activists, all with the assistance of UCLA security.’”

“Although UCLA administrators knew this was happening and even hired security to monitor the protesters’ encampment, they told security guards to ‘discourage unapproved students’ from trying to cross the blockade instead of enforcing equal and free campus access for all and the university’s own policies, the lawsuit alleges.”

Judge Scarsi, who issued a preliminary injunction against UCLA, wrote in his ruling, “In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, in the City of Los Angeles, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith.” He described the events that transpired on the Los Angeles campus as “unimaginable” and “abhorrent.”

UCLA, by the way, argued that it bore no responsibility for ensuring Jewish students had equal access to campus because it was just their fellow students—not the university itself—harassing and intimidating them. Yes, really.

Our Jessica Costescu has the full story here.