No wonder Minouche Shafik abruptly resigned as president of Columbia University. Not only did three professors resign after being placed on leave from their duties for mocking the concerns of Jewish students about campus anti-Semitism, now it is revealed that two members of the Columbia Senate Rules Committee (the school's top disciplinary committee), whose duties include setting rules for protests on campus, actively took part in the recent pro-Palestinian encampment in April at Columbia. They are identified by the Free Beacon as professors Joseph Slaughter and Susan Bernofsky.
The Washington Free Beacon has the story.
Something serious is going on at Columbia. True, it is not the only university with these kinds of problems, far from it. The entire anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian movement has infected so many campuses to the detriment of the well-being and safety of Jewish students. But it's safe to say that Columbia is one of the worst. With a faculty that includes, Rashid Khalidi and Joseph Massad, to the all-too-frequent campus disruptions, which reached its crescendo after Israel's military response to October 7, to the three (four actually) school officials who were caught texting mocking and disparaging comments about Jewish students and leaders because they were protesting anti-Semitism at Columbia, to the inept performance and resignation by Shafik-and now this.
Personally, I wish every Jewish student at Columbia would withdraw from the university en masse-and be joined by hundreds, if not thousands, of Christian students as well.
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