Congressional leaders berated Columbia University’s president during a three-and-a-half-hour hearing over how her administration has responded to allegations of rampant antisemitism on campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, Columbia’s president, was often interrupted when attempting to explain the difficulty of balancing student safety and free speech.
The hearing, hosted by the U.S. House’s Committee on Education and the Workforce, followed a similar hearing in December that ultimately led to the resignation of two Ivy League presidents — Elizabeth Magill, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Claudine Gay, of Harvard University. Shafik did not attend the December hearing, citing a traveling conflict.
Shafik appeared with David M. Schizer, former dean of Columbia Law School and co-chair of the university’s antisemitism task force, as well as Claire Shipman and David Greenwald, co-chairs of the university’s Board of Trustees.
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