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    US CAPITOL (ANDREW BERNARD / JNS) Columbia University’s president, its two board co-chairs and a co-chair of its antisemitism taskforce testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Wednesday about Jew-hatred on campus since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Student groups and professors celebrated Hamas’s attack and have since held antisemitic and anti-Israel […]

  • Three takeaways from the Columbia University president’s testimony on antisemitism

    For nearly four hours, another Ivy League school president faced a congressional grilling over antisemitism on campus. Columbia University President Minouche Shafik tried to avoid the firestorm of controversy that pushed out two of the three university presidents who testified on Capitol Hill in December. Shafik, who was traveling during that last hearing, had the advantage of time to avoid some, though not all, of the landmines. Here are three takeaways from today’s hearing. Better preparations...

  • Columbia University president grilled on campus antisemitism at congressional hearing

    Columbia University’s president strongly denounced antisemitism during a Congressional hearing Wednesday, saying after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, “the world changed, and so did my focus.” “Antisemitism has no place on our campus, and I am personally committed to doing everything I can to confront it directly,” President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik told the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce. “Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas terrorists and very soon it became clear that...