{"id":2227548,"date":"2024-04-22T18:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-professors-declare-solidarity-with-student-protesters-and-call-for-shafiks-resignation\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T18:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T22:42:04","slug":"columbia-professors-declare-solidarity-with-student-protesters-and-call-for-shafiks-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-professors-declare-solidarity-with-student-protesters-and-call-for-shafiks-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Professors Support Student Protesters, Demand Shafik&#8217;s Resignation"},"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\">16<\/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-professors-declare-solidarity-with-student-protesters-and-call-for-shafiks-resignation%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=2227548&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>A group of Columbia University professors, led by history\u2062 professor Christopher\u200d Brown, expressed solidarity with suspended anti-Semitic students and criticized President Minouche Shafik for involving the NYPD in a protest crackdown. They called for Shafik&#8217;s resignation, condemning the police intervention on campus. The faculty rally aimed to\u200b support students amidst escalating tensions, including reports\u2064 of violence and \u200banti-Semitic chants.  <\/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>&#8216;She has forfeited the privilege to lead this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cornell-professors-overwhelmingly-reject-china-partnership\/\" title=\"Cornell Professors Overwhelmingly Reject China Partnership\">great university<\/a>,&#8217; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-k-education-secretary-prioritizing-emotional-safety-over-free-speech-is-dangerous\/\" title=\"U.K. Education Secretary: Prioritizing \u2018Emotional Safety\u2019 Over Free Speech Is \u2018Dangerous\u2019\">history professor<\/a> Christopher Brown <\/h2>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\"> \t\t \t\t \t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>MANHATTAN\u2014A group of Columbia University professors held a rally Monday to express solidarity with the anti-Semitic students suspended for holding unauthorized protests on campus and to lambaste university president Minouche Shafik for cracking down on them.<\/p>\n<p>One faculty member, Columbia University history professor Christopher Brown, called for Shafik\u2019s resignation over her decision to call in the NYPD to round up and arrest unruly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-schoolgirl-admits-lying-about-teacher-who-was-murdered-for-showing-class-muhammed-cartoons\/\" title=\"French Schoolgirl Admits Lying About Teacher Who Was Murdered For Showing Class Muhammed Cartoons\">student protesters<\/a> who refused to vacate the campus green.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no confidence in the president\u2019s leadership,&#8221; Brown said. &#8220;She has forfeited the privilege to lead this great university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown and dozens of other faculty members from both Columbia and Barnard College assembled on the steps of the Low Memorial Library to express support for students who have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-university-campus-unravels-in-face-of-anti-semitic-eliminationist-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sown chaos<\/a> in and around Columbia&#8217;s Manhattan campus in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>In total, more than 100 students have been arrested since the formation of an unauthorized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposed-ordinance-seeks-to-ban-homelessness-near-san-jose-schools\/\" title=\"New ordinance aims to prohibit homelessness near San Jose schools.\">encampment zone<\/a> on the school&#8217;s south lawn, which students set up Wednesday as Shafik testified before Congress on the school&#8217;s response to campus anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese history and literature professor David Lurie said charges against those arrestees should be dismissed and expunged from the students&#8217; records &#8220;immediately.&#8221; He dismissed criticism from Jewish students that the demonstrations have hindered their ability to learn and attend class, saying, &#8220;Protest is a part of learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The climate on campus deteriorated further over the weekend as Jewish students were <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-university-campus-unravels-in-face-of-anti-semitic-eliminationist-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subject to violent demonstrations<\/a>, including a group that took an Israeli flag on campus only to have pro-Hamas agitators steal it and attempt to burn it. The group of Jewish students was assaulted, splashed with water, and followed by protesters, according to one of the students.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the evening also showed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-university-campus-unravels-in-face-of-escalating-anti-semitic-eliminationist-protests\/\" title=\"Columbia University Campus Faces Rising Anti-Semitic Protests\">keffiyeh-clad individual holding<\/a> a sign that pointed toward a group of Jewish students with the caption &#8220;Al-Qassam\u2019s Next Targets,&#8221; a reference to Hamas\u2019s military wing, which carried out the terror attacks in Israel on Oct. 7. Another live streamed a speech that called for &#8220;escalation&#8221; and glorified the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Student attendees of the Monday faculty rally engaged in anti-Semitic chants after the professors finished speaking, video taken by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> shows. Chants included &#8220;Zionists you can&#8217;t hide, we charge you with genocide&#8221; and &#8220;There is only one solution, intifada revolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brown, the history professor, also took a swing at Shafik&#8217;s congressional testimony, saying the president showed &#8220;no pride in our institution&#8221; and &#8220;allowed slander of our institution to stand without rebuke.&#8221; Shafik used her testimony to condemn anti-Semitism from both student protesters and professors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president&#8217;s decision to send riot police to pick up peaceful protesters on our campus was unprecedented, unjustified, disproportionate, divisive, and dangerous,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The police department does not belong on this campus. \u2026 That show of force was a sign of weakness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Lurie and Brown, biology professor Hillary Callahan, English professor Julie Crawford, education professor Maria Rivera Maulucci, and gender studies professor Elizabeth Bernstein spoke at the protest.<\/p>\n<p>Maulucci <a href=\"https:\/\/barnard.edu\/magazine\/fall-2018\/laboratory-inclusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serves as chair<\/a> of Barnard College&#8217;s education program and was also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S0EyAhbqNKk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a> of the college&#8217;s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion as recently as 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Lurie, meanwhile, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/news\/2024\/04\/20\/barnard-and-columbia-aaup-chapter-issues-declaration-condemning-student-suspensions-authorization-of-nypd-sweep-in-the-strongest-possible-terms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">head<\/a> of Columbia&#8217;s American Association of University Professors chapter. Ahead of Shafik&#8217;s testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, he and other professors penned an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/opinion\/2024\/04\/10\/jewish-faculty-reject-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> in the <em>Columbia Spectator<\/em> denouncing the committee and calling it &#8220;absurd to claim&#8221; that anti-Semitism is &#8220;rampant&#8221; on Columbia&#8217;s campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than being concerned with the safety and well-being of Jewish students on campuses, the committee is leveraging antisemitism in a wider effort to caricature and demonize universities as hotbeds of \u2018woke indoctrination,\u2019&#8221; Lurie wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The prospect of Rep. Elise Stefanik, a member of Congress with a history of espousing white nationalist politics, calling on university presidents to account for alleged antisemitism on their campuses reveals these proceedings as disingenuous political theater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recent demonstrations held on Columbia&#8217;s campus call into question Lurie&#8217;s assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Signs littered throughout the encampment zone also called for &#8220;intifada&#8221; and referred to Columbia as &#8220;the people&#8217;s university for Palestine.&#8221; Others called to &#8220;free all Palestinian protesters&#8221; and urged students to &#8220;enroll in revolution.&#8221; Some professors stuck around after the rally&#8217;s conclusion to speak with student organizers and express their support, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> observed.\t<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1882809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1882809\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1882809\">A Columbia University professor with student activist Aidan Parisi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both the faculty rally and student protests that took place thereafter went on uninterrupted, with no attempt from the school to shut them down. Columbia &#8220;generally has not tried to stop violations as they occur,&#8221; instead opting to &#8220;wait out&#8221; demonstrations to avoid &#8220;escalation,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/president.columbia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/content\/Report_1_Columbia_University%E2%80%99s_Rules_on_Demonstrations_March_04_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Columbia&#8217;s Task Force on Antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History professor Christopher Brown declared, &#8216;She has forfeited the privilege to lead this great university.&#8217; In Manhattan, Columbia University professors rallied in support of suspended anti-Semitic students. They criticized President Minouche Shafik for clamping down on protests. 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