Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has reportedly resigned from the elite university.
Shafik steps down after a year in power that has been marked by constant, and sometimes destructive, anti-Israel protests. The Free Beacon reported.
The embattled president has faced growing calls for his resignation in recent months over his handling of the protests that erupted after Hamas’ Oct. 7 incursion into Israel.
She was accused of “gross negligence” when, during congressional testimony, she refused to say whether the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” should be considered anti-Semitic.
Critics argued that Shafik did not do enough to crack down on campus protests before a tent city took over the Ivy League school’s lawn just weeks before graduation.
Demonstrations intensified in April when a disruptive mob illegally occupied the Hamilton Hall academic building after hundreds of students were arrested on charges of trespassing when they refused to pack their bags.
Shafik’s resignation comes just a week after three deans resigned from Columbia University following the revelation of a “highly troubling” series of emails that disparaged Israeli and Jewish students’ concerns about growing anti-Semitism on campus.
During a panel discussion a month ago about campus anti-Semitism fueled by Israel’s war on Hamas, Susan Chan Kim, Matthew Patashnick and Kristen Crome sent vomit emojis to messages and accused Jewish students of asserting “privilege.”
Columbia University did not respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment.
Shafik’s departure comes just three weeks before the start of the fall semester.
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