{"id":2227710,"date":"2024-04-22T22:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T02:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-columbia-professor-signals-university-may-be-negotiating-with-pro-palestinian-protest-leaders-this-is-1938\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T22:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T02:03:58","slug":"jewish-columbia-professor-signals-university-may-be-negotiating-with-pro-palestinian-protest-leaders-this-is-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-columbia-professor-signals-university-may-be-negotiating-with-pro-palestinian-protest-leaders-this-is-1938\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Columbia professor hints at university &#8216;negotiating&#8217; with pro-Palestinian protest leaders, drawing parallels to 1938"},"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%2Fjewish-columbia-professor-signals-university-may-be-negotiating-with-pro-palestinian-protest-leaders-this-is-1938%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=2227710&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 Columbia University professor criticizes the administration for potential negotiations with pro-Palestinian protest leaders. Shai Davidai, from Columbia Business School, faced exclusion from\u200c campus amid \u200bsafety concerns. Expressing concerns \u2064over negotiations with \u2062what he considers a &#8220;pro-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actblue-facilitating-donations-to-terror-tied-charity-legal-group-says\/\" title=\"ActBlue Facilitating Donations to Terror-Tied Charity, Legal Group Says\">terror organization<\/a>,&#8221; he draws parallels to 1938, suggesting the university is negotiating with terrorists, sparking controversy.  <\/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>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/columbia-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Columbia University\">Columbia University<\/a> professor who has been an outspoken critic of the university\u2019s handling of continuous pro-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/palestinian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Palestinian\">Palestinian<\/a> student <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Palestinian\">protests<\/a> suggested that the university\u2019s administration may be \u201cnegotiating\u201d with the protest\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Shai Davidai, an assistant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/professors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"professor\">professor<\/a> at Columbia Business School, was seen on Monday in a viral <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScooterCasterNY\/status\/1782413946110066811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"video\">video<\/a> having a combative exchange with university administrators when he was told his staff ID had been \u201cdeactivated,\u201d stopping him from entering campus due to safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a tip that the administration is negotiating with the leaders of the pro-terror organization. The same organization whose members called Hamas to kill Jewish students,\u201d Davidai <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai\/status\/1782514848682713534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"wrote\">wrote<\/a> on X, likely referring to the organizers of the protest, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, which have been adamant that its members have been nonviolent. \u201cIf this is true, this is huge. Columbia is negotiating with terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The protest encampment was set up at the university in opposition to Israel and in support of Palestinians amid the conflict in Gaza. An estimated 200 pro-Palestinian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protesters <\/a>were on the campus Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier today, @Columbia University refused to let me onto campus. Why? Because they cannot protect my safety as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jewish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jewish\">Jewish<\/a> professor,\u201d Davidai said, adding a reference to Jewish staff being dismissed from universities in Nazi Germany, \u201cThis is 1938.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Campus security and police at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Columbia<\/a> are not allowing pro-Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-round-of-schools-ditching-shakespeare-for-promoting-misogyny-racism-and-more\/\" title=\"New Round Of Schools Ditching Shakespeare For Promoting \u2018Misogyny, Racism,\u2019 And More\">assistant professor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ShaiDavidai<\/a> on the part of campus being occupied by the far-left and Islamic extremists. To protect the autonomous zone, the university is keeping out its critics. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wDBruut2B2\">pic.twitter.com\/wDBruut2B2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1782419968077803590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In the video, Davidai was seen pointing at Columbia University Chief Operating Officer Cas Holloway and Vice President for Public Safety Gerald Lewis, who were standing nearby.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Cas Holloway, the COO, this is Gerald Lewis. They were in the meeting when I asked them if Hamas is a terror organization, and they couldn\u2019t say that it is a terrorist organization,\u201d Davidai said to the crowd surrounding him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShai, we are willing to take you to the Math lawn,\u201d Holloway stated to Davidai in front of the crowd, reiterating what he had told the professor in an email on Sunday.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Cas Holloway&#8217;s (the COO of the University) response to my request for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-d-c-mayor-extends-emergency-declaration-for-15-days\/\" title=\"Washington, D.C. mayor extends emergency declaration for 15 days\">public safety<\/a> is nothing more than a continuation of six months of gaslighting and degrading the Jewish community of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Columbia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The terrorists can do whatever they want but the Jews need to be closed off in a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/abNtzJGukq\">pic.twitter.com\/abNtzJGukq<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai\/status\/1782376296984547635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am a professor here, I have every right to be everywhere on campus. You cannot let people that support Hamas on campus, and me, a professor, not go on campus,\u201d he demanded. \u201cLet me in now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crowd then began to chant, \u201cLet Shai in!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holloway had emailed Davidai earlier, telling him that due to the safety of students and colleagues, he was urged to change plans for any counter-protest events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the obvious risk to the safety of students and other members of our community, we strongly urge you to ask any students and colleagues who may have planned to join you to change their plans as well,\u201d Holloway said in the email. \u201cObviously, the safety of our community has to be our top priority right now. As a faculty member, you have a fiduciary duty to do everything in your power to help keep our students and campus safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish professor had <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai\/status\/1782376674530570610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"promoted\">promoted<\/a> the gathering at Columbia on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sickening-video-shows-antifa-allegedly-stab-4-trump-supporters-in-washington-dc\/\" title=\"Sickening Video Shows Antifa Allegedly Stab 4 Trump Supporters in Washington DC\">social media account<\/a>, calling for a \u201cPEACEFUL sit in.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cInsane!\u201d tech billionaire Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1782437279627104453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"wrote\">wrote<\/a> on social media about the professor being denied access.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGet over yourself dude, you have had zero threats to your safety despite spending months harassing your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning\/\" title=\"Report: Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning\">student body<\/a> and playing victim,\u201d journalist Zaid Jilani <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZaidJilani\/status\/1782434868539875836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"remarked\">remarked<\/a>. <\/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>\u201cColumbia is currently an unsafe place for me. It\u2019s also a place a pro-Hamas terror organization keeps protestors in fences and brainwashes them about me,\u201d the professor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai\/status\/1782495115585479071\" title=\"said\">said<\/a> in another social media post on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Davidai called on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai\/status\/1782190264590729722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"everyone in the antisemitism task force\">everyone in the \u201cantisemitism task force\u201d<\/a> at Columbia to resign.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 student protesters were arrested and suspended for refusing to leave their \u201cGaza Solidarity Encampment\u201d last week but now, a new tent city of 200 protesters has been growing in numbers on Columbia\u2019s Morningside Heights campus.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Columbia University professor critical of the school&#8217;s response to ongoing pro-Palestinian student protests hinted that the administration might be in talks with protest leaders. 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