Antisemitism hearing offers Columbia president a chance to stand strong against bigotry

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On Wednesday, April 17, Columbia University’s president and board of chairs testifies at a long-overdue congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. Minouche Shafik, Columbia’s president, had been invited to the calamitous hearing last December alongside the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, but she, rather fortuitously, had a scheduling conflict.  

Jewish students cannot afford any further delays. A week on from the Anti-Defamation League assigning Columbia a “D” rating in its “Campus Antisemitic Report Card,” Shafik will have a rapt audience when she explains to a bipartisan group of policymakers how the university is protecting Jewish students who have, since October 7, been spat on, beaten, cursed and intimidated with swastika vandalism.  

And this weekend’s direct attacks by Iran on Israel are no doubt going to exacerbate, rather than dissipate, tensions on campus.  

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Antisemitism may very well be “antithetical” to Columbia’s core values, as its spokesperson recently stated, but it’s an ugly reality that can’t be swept under the carpet or nullified by solidarity statements followed by minimal action.  

Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, is

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