{"id":2223390,"date":"2024-04-17T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wife-of-obama-press-sec-shocked-by-proliferation-of-anti-semitism-on-campus-of-obamas-alma-mater\/"},"modified":"2024-04-17T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T19:23:59","slug":"wife-of-obama-press-sec-shocked-by-proliferation-of-anti-semitism-on-campus-of-obamas-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wife-of-obama-press-sec-shocked-by-proliferation-of-anti-semitism-on-campus-of-obamas-alma-mater\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Alma Mater Faces Surge in Anti-Semitic Incidents: Shocked Wife of Obama&#8217;s Press Sec Reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fwife-of-obama-press-sec-shocked-by-proliferation-of-anti-semitism-on-campus-of-obamas-alma-mater%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=2223390&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>The text discusses Columbia University\u2019s Board of Trustees co-chair, Claire Shipman, addressing the\u200d issue of anti-Semitism on the Manhattan campus. Shipman&#8217;s husband, Jay\u200c Carney, a\u2064 former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/\" title=\"Media Say Biden's Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now\">press secretary<\/a> under Obama, was\u200d also highlighted in the context of the university&#8217;s history with anti-Semitic \u2063professors. The discussion points to challenges in fostering constructive dialogue free from hate\u2063 on campus.  <\/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<h2>Former president&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-grants-26-pardons-and-3-commutations-includes-numerous-prominent-names\/\" title=\"Trump Grants 26 Pardons And 3 Commutations, Includes Numerous Prominent Names\">longtime friend<\/a>, Columbia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-shows-growing-democratic-opposition-to-cheap-labor-migration\/\" title=\"Poll Shows Growing Democratic Opposition to Cheap Labor Migration\">professor<\/a> Rashid Khalidi, warned Israel supporters would &#8216;infest&#8217; the Trump admin<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\"> \t\t \t\t \t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The co-chair of Columbia University\u2019s Board of Trustees, Claire Shipman, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the proliferation of anti-Semitism on the school\u2019s Manhattan campus is &#8220;shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shipman\u2019s husband, Jay Carney, served as press secretary under former president Barack Obama, a Columbia alumnus whose longtime friendship with one of the school\u2019s notorious anti-Semitic professors became a central issue in his 2008 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>During Wednesday&#8217;s House Education Committee hearing featuring testimony from Columbia president Minouche Shafik and other school leaders, Shipman was asked to respond to what one lawmaker described as &#8220;pro-terrorist expressions on campus on a significant scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it says we have a lot of work to do. It&#8217;s shocking,&#8221; Shipman said. &#8220;I think it says that we have lost our way in terms of what we expect from each other in a learning community and in our society. I think we have to \u2026 commit to speech that isn&#8217;t laced with hate and isn&#8217;t just meant to provoke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carney is probably more familiar with the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric that has percolated for decades on the Columbia campus, having accepted a job in the Obama administration in 2008, when Obama\u2019s friendship with one of Columbia\u2019s most prominent anti-Semitic professors was a recurring theme.<\/p>\n<p>Though Obama professed support for Israel, the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2008-apr-10-na-obamamideast10-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in the spring of 2008 that, in fact, Obama was a &#8220;friend and frequent dinner companion&#8221; of Rashid Khalidi, an anti-Israel scholar who has taught in Columbia&#8217;s history department since 2003. Obama lauded Khalidi at a going away party before the professor joined Columbia, saying Khalidi gave &#8220;consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Hamas&#8217;s Oct. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/employee-at-usaid-contractor-celebrated-terrorist-attack-against-israeli-civilians\/\" title=\"Employee at USAID Contractor Celebrated Terrorist Attack Against Israeli Civilians\">7 terror attack<\/a> on Israel, Khalidi argued the attack required &#8220;context,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2023\/10\/9\/rashid_khalidi_palestine_israel_explosion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">telling<\/a> <em>Democracy Now!<\/em> that Israel&#8217;s &#8220;settler colonialism&#8221; and &#8220;apartheid&#8221; regime was to blame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has to be put within the context. And the context is not just occupation,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The context is settler colonialism and apartheid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You cannot commit daily violence against Palestinians\u2014one Palestinian has died every day this year, in fact, slightly more\u2014in the occupied West Bank. You cannot expect that not to lead to a reaction. The reaction will be violent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, Khalidi routinely spoke to reporters on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a U.S.-designated terror group. As a Columbia professor, he has faced criticism over anti-Semitic statements.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, for example, Khalidi said supporters of the Jewish state would &#8220;infest&#8221; the Trump administration, invoking anti-Semitic propaganda that referred to Jews as &#8220;vermin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a group of people, a lot of them in Israel and some of them in the United States, who live in a world of their own,&#8221; he said during an interview with a Chicago-based radio show. &#8220;That is to say, they think that whatever they want, and whatever cockamamie schemes they can cook up, can be substituted for reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, these people infest the Trump transition team,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;These people infest\u2014are going to infest our government, as of January 20. And they are hand-in-glove with a similar group of people in the Israeli government and in Israeli political life, who think that whatever they think can be imposed on reality.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his longtime friendship with Khalidi, Obama in 1998 attended a speech by the late Columbia professor Edward Said, according to the <em>Times<\/em>. Said called for a campaign &#8220;against Israeli apartheid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Said was photographed throwing a stone in the direction of Israel Defense Force soldiers positioned outside of a guardhouse. Columbia responded by issuing a letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2000\/10\/19\/nyregion\/columbia-debates-a-professor-s-gesture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">defending the professor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi cautioned about Israel supporters &#8220;infesting&#8221; Trump administration. Claire Shipman, co-chair of Columbia University\u2019s Board of Trustees, expressed alarm at rising anti-Semitism on the school&#8217;s campus. Shipman&#8217;s husband, Jay Carney, was the press secretary for the former president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2223391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/house-education-committee-holds-hearing-on-antisemitism-at-columbia-un_736x515.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/house-education-committee-holds-hearing-on-antisemitism-at-columbia-un_736x515.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}