{"id":2222510,"date":"2024-04-16T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-in-crisis-ivy-league-president-to-testify-about-antisemitism-before-congress\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:06:29","slug":"columbia-in-crisis-ivy-league-president-to-testify-about-antisemitism-before-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-in-crisis-ivy-league-president-to-testify-about-antisemitism-before-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League President Set to Address Antisemitism in Columbia Before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcolumbia-in-crisis-ivy-league-president-to-testify-about-antisemitism-before-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2222510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Columbia University President Nemat Shafik is scheduled\u2062 to testify before Congress \u200dabout antisemitism, following a controversial \u2062December testimony \u200binvolving Ivy League presidents. \u200cThe upcoming hearing titled\u200b \u201cColumbia in Crisis: Columbia University\u2019s Response\u2062 to Antisemitism\u201d will address rising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orthodox-jews-trending-even-more-toward-republican-party-while-vast-majority-of-american-jews-lean-left-despite-democrat-position-on-anti-semitism-and-israel-poll-shows\/\" title=\"Orthodox Jews Trending Even More Toward Republican Party While Vast Majority Of American Jews Lean Left, Despite Democrat Position On Anti-Semitism And Israel, Poll Shows\">antisemitic incidents<\/a>, campus safety \u200cconcerns, and the need \u200bfor accountability and reform in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-expected-to-follow-up-race-based-admissions-decision-with-new-case-on-huge-issue-at-high-schools\/\" title=\"SCOTUS to tackle major high school issue after race-based admissions ruling.\">higher \u2063education institutions<\/a>. This comes \u200bamid reports of increasing hostility toward Jewish students on\u2063 campuses.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Columbia University President Nemat Shafik is set to testify before <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>antisemitism<\/a> on Wednesday in a sequel to the December testimony in which two Ivy League presidents sparked outrage in refusing to say that calls for genocide against <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/judaism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Jewish<\/a> students violate school policy.<\/p>\n<p>Shafik will be grilled by the Committee on Education and the Workforce just four months after former Harvard President Claudine Gay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth testified before Congress. The hearing is titled \u201cColumbia in Crisis: Columbia University\u2019s Response to Antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-amy-klobuchar-tricks-republicans-into-backing-leftist-tech-agenda\/\" title=\"Democrat Amy Klobuchar Tricks Republicans Into Backing Leftist Tech Agenda\">leading academic institutions<\/a> have been warped by ignorance and backwards ideologies,\u201d Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA), who serves on the committee holding the hearing, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cThey have led a 21st-century American resurgence of one of history\u2019s most vile and retrograde prejudices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis rise in anti-Semitism is horrifying, and Columbia has been the site of some of the most disturbing incidents. Our Committee is committed to bringing accountability to those who are responsible and reforming American higher education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a number of antisemitic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/2935986\/government-can-step-in-as-campus-antisemitism-reaches-defcon-1-experts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>incidents<\/a> reported in campus communities following Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, including several since the first testimony. This has led to a majority of Jewish students feeling \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2931556\/jewish-students-feel-unsafe-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>unsafe<\/a>\u201d on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia received a \u201cD\u201d grade on the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Campus Antisemitism Report Card, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/campus-antisemitism-report-card\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>grades<\/a> how universities respond to antisemitic incidents. Both Harvard and MIT received failing grades on the report released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope Columbia returns to being a safe place for all students \u2014 including Jewish students,\u201d Columbia graduate student Marc Nock <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/14\/us-news\/jewish-students-say-columbia-university-must-address-antisemitism-ahead-of-dc-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>told<\/a> the <em>New York Post<\/em> as his peers joined him in calling on their school to do more to protect Jewish students against heightened hostilities.<\/p>\n<p>Harley Lippman, who serves on boards at Columbia and Yale University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2606753\/ivy-league-board-member-highlights-danger-of-campus-free-speech-hypocrisy-genocide-starts-with-words\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>slammed<\/a> Gay and Kornbluth\u2019s testimonies in a December interview with the <em>Washington Examiner, <\/em>reacting to the first hearing. \u201cThey have a responsibility, and they have Jewish students who are frightened and don\u2019t feel safe on campus, and they are completely ignoring the rights of this minority,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The widespread climate of antisemitism on college campuses around the country has prompted Jewish organizations to launch counterefforts. On Tuesday, the Academic Engagement Network announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facultyagainstantisemitism.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement<\/a> and #<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facultyagainstantisemitism.org\/keep-the-light-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>KeepTheLightOn Campaign<\/a> to empower faculty to stand up against antisemitism on their campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI became involved in this movement because I believe that universities can and should be places of respectful dialogue,\u201d Southwestern University professor and FAAM member Michael Saenger told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With faculty both in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2898157\/california-k-12-antisemitism-prompts-pro-bono-legal-helpline-kill-the-jews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>K-12<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2829175\/upenn-faculty-blocks-main-building-pro-palestinian-die-in-protest-violation-school-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>higher education<\/a> pushing anti-Israel sentiment, college students are increasingly sharing these views, resulting in nearly half of college-age Americans stating they believe the Oct. 7 attack was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2812894\/almost-half-young-adults-hamas-attack-justified-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>justified<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a Jew, so I am particularly concerned with antisemitism and how it affects me and my students, but I also want the university to be welcoming to all students. It should be a place of learning and listening, not aggression and ideological conformity,\u201d Saenger said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday hearing is slated to begin at 10:15 a.m. at the Rayburn House Office Building, and Columbia Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Claire Shipman and David Greenwald will also be testifying.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Columbia University for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University President Nemat Shafik will testify before Congress on Wednesday regarding antisemitism. This follows the controversial December testimony where Ivy League presidents faced criticism for failing to address calls for genocide against Jewish students. 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