A Columbia University professor is speaking out against anti-Israel protesters and calling on police to protect him. But his professor has a history of anti-police activism.
On Monday, Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School who is Jewish, tried to lead counter-protesters against an anti-Israel demonstration known as the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” but was forced to leave campus after his ID was disabled. They reported that they were refused entry.be report by Columbia Daily Spectator.
As Breitbart News reported, the professor was also denied access to the university’s main campus on Friday, ostensibly for safety reasons from anti-Israel mobs.
On Sunday, Ms. Davidei sent an email to Columbia University administrators, including University President Minoush Shafik, warning them that she planned to arrive on campus on Monday to sit in the middle of the Gaza Solidarity encampment, and to ask for a police escort. He warned that he had asked the school to do so. While he was doing that.
“Last I checked, I’m still a professor at Columbia University,” Davidei began in an email, which he shared in an X/Twitter post.
This message has been sent to the reader. @Columbia University.
I plan to go to campus starting Monday morning and have requested a police escort.
Just go to your workplace and the police will accompany you. pic.twitter.com/akhKvDPi5m
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) April 21, 2024
“Therefore, I will go tomorrow, Monday morning, and sit peacefully in the heart of the illegal encampment that you have allowed the pro-Hamas mob to set up in the middle of campus,” the professor continued.
Mr Davidai then accused university administrators of having “completely failed”.[ing] “This is to ensure the safety of Jewish students,” he said, adding, “We are therefore seeking approval to bring at least 10 police officers with us.”
The professor said he would like to use New York City police officers for the police escort, saying, “We are asking the school’s public safety department to provide an escort, but they have proven to be powerless against rioters.” So I don’t want to do that,” he added. It puts their lives at risk. ”
“We are coming. I am an employee and they are your students. You have a responsibility to keep us physically safe,” Davidai concluded in the email.
The professor has called on law enforcement to protect him, but Davidei has made anti-police comments in the past, saying officers use weapons “disproportionately against black men.” he accused.
“Aren’t you worried that evil racist police are going to shoot people to death?” Writer and director Mike Cernovich asked Davidai in the comments section of the post. While sharing the professor’s post, he asked, “Lawmakers are providing ammunition to police and disproportionately using it on black men. Should we hold them accountable?”
Aren’t you worried about evil racist police shooting people? https://t.co/FgUCQDieDC
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 22, 2024
Meanwhile, Davidai is currently under investigation by the university for allegedly harassing students. According to one source, Shafiq said there were more than 50 complaints against the professor. report By CNN.
But Davidai told CNN he never called students by name, only the “pro-Hamas” student group and professors.
“They’re investigating me for the whole reason this hearing was held in the first place,” he said. “Columbia is investigating my social media tweets, and only my social media tweets.”
As Breitbart News reported in October, Mr. Davidei called Mr. Shafiq a “coward” and called him a “terrorist-supporting student organization” on campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamast terrorist attack in Israel. He blamed the university for failing to respond.
On Tuesday, Davidei compared Columbia University to Nazi Germany in response to “all the journalists” who requested comment in a post on X/Twitter.
“I promise, I will try to respond to each and every one of you,” he wrote. “In the meantime, please consider that, to my knowledge, Nazi Germany was the last time a professor was denied admission to his university because he was Jewish.”
To all journalists:
I promise to repay each and every one of you.
In the meantime, consider the following:
As far as I know, Nazi Germany was the last time a professor was denied admission to his university because he was Jewish.
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) April 23, 2024
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