{"id":2224574,"date":"2024-04-18T18:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-columbia-presidents-commitment-to-tackle-anti-semitism-falls-short\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T18:17:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T22:17:31","slug":"watch-columbia-presidents-commitment-to-tackle-anti-semitism-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-columbia-presidents-commitment-to-tackle-anti-semitism-falls-short\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Columbia President&#8217;s Efforts Against Anti-Semitism Miss the Mark"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwatch-columbia-presidents-commitment-to-tackle-anti-semitism-falls-short%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=2224574&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 Minouche Shafik\u2064 affirmed her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-vowed-to-elect-more-women-they-did-just-that\/\" title=\"Republicans Vowed To Elect More Women...They Did Just That\">commitment<\/a> to combatting anti-Semitism \u2062during a House congressional hearing. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">giving<\/a> her testimony, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-students-protested-schools-stringent-mask-policy-now-they-face-truancy-fines\/\" title=\"High School Students Protested School\u2019s Stringent Mask Policy. Now They Face Truancy, Fines\">students protested<\/a> on campus. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) \u2062questioned Shafik about protests against Jewish people, to which Shafik responded negatively. Jewish students reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-fox-news-reporter-escorted-out-of-stop-the-steal-protest-by-police-as-crowd-chants-fox-news-sucks\/\" title=\"WATCH: Fox News Reporter Escorted Out of Stop the Steal Protest By Police As Crowd Chants \u2018Fox News Sucks\u2019\">chants<\/a> against the Zionist state and \u2064Hamas. Omar&#8217;s daughter was among students suspended for involvement\u2062 in \u2064an\u200c anti-Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">protest<\/a> at Columbia.  <\/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 Minouche Shafik in a House congressional hearing on Wednesday declared her personal commitment to confronting the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/watch-columbia-university-president-testifies-on-explosion-of-campus-anti-semitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explosion<\/a> of anti-Semitism on campus. As Shafik gave her testimony, dozens of Columbia students protested throughout the school&#8217;s campus with chants of &#8220;intifada&#8221; and &#8220;there is only one solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) asked Shafik if she had &#8220;seen a protest saying \u2018we are against Jewish people,\u2019&#8221; to which Shafik responded, &#8220;No.&#8221; Also on Wednesday, Jewish students at Columbia <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EdWorkforceCmte\/status\/1781029099026186472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that protesters chanted &#8220;death to the Zionist state&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StopAntisemites\/status\/1780760408116359601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and<\/a> &#8220;we&#8217;re all Hamas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Omar&#8217;s daughter was one of several students <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/columbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspended<\/a> by the university Thursday for her involvement with the anti-Israel protest encampment on the university&#8217;s lawn.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a House congressional hearing, Columbia University president Minouche Shafik expressed her dedication to addressing the rise of anti-Semitism on campus. Meanwhile, students at Columbia protested with chants of &#8220;intifada&#8221; and &#8220;there is only one solution.&#8221; Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) questioned Shafik during the session<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":2224575,"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\/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-5.18.13%E2%80%AFPM_736x514.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224574","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\/Screenshot-2024-04-17-at-5.18.13%E2%80%AFPM_736x514.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224574","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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}