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Nemat Minouche Shafik

Anti-Israel demonstrators protest outside Columbia University, September 3, 2024, in New York. (AP/Yuki Iwamura)
November 1, 2024, 10:55 pm
Columbia paid $395,000 after suspending Jewish student for using ‘fart spray’ at protest
Newly-released House report on campus antisemitism says school allowed anti-Israel activists to spread false claim novelty item was chemical weapon, amid hostile climate nationwide
By Luke Tress
Columbia President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on 'Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism' on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 17, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
August 15, 2024, 4:26 am
Columbia president resigns amid criticism over her response to anti-Israel protests
Minouche Shafik steps down weeks before school year starts, becoming the fourth head of an Ivy League university to quit after facing controversy related to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack
By JTA
Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters march outside Columbia University, in New York City on May 23, 2024. (Kena Betancur/AFP)
August 9, 2024, 8:18 am
3 Columbia deans quit after exchanging texts deriding campus antisemitism concerns
Resignations come two months after administrators made mocking remarks during panel on hatred at campus, which university president said echoed ‘ancient antisemitic tropes’
By Luke Tress
Protesters outside Columbia University, New York City, New York, April 30, 2024. (Luke Tress/JTA)
July 8, 2024, 11:05 pm
Columbia axes 3 deans for text chain mocking campus antisemitism concerns
Fourth dean in conversation, which took place during panel on issue, acknowledged that remarks ‘may call to mind antisemitic tropes’; one dean said panelist came from ‘privilege’
By Luke Tress
Professor Mohamed Abdou speaks to The Electronic Intifada in an interview published on April 27, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 2, 2024, 1:22 pm
Columbia hires, and claims to fire, professor who voiced support for Hamas post-Oct. 7
University’s president said Mohamed Abdou had been terminated but he claims his contract ends May 30, after he posted on October 11 that he was ‘with the resistance’
By ToI Staff
A US protester wears Columbia University's disciplinary notice covered over by support for Palestinians in Gaza at Columbia University on April 29, 2024 in New York City. (Alex Kent / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
April 30, 2024, 5:26 am
Columbia suspends deadline-defying anti-Israel protesters; arrests at other campuses
University says move aims ‘to ensure safety on our campus,’ after its president refused to divest from Israel, highlighted Jewish students’ plight; ‘Columbia will burn,’ warns SJP
By AFP and ToI Staff
Columbia University faculty and staff gather on the campus in solidarity with student protesters who are demonstrating against the university's investments in Israel, April 29, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
April 29, 2024, 8:44 pm
Columbia protesters defy deadline to leave; university refuses to divest from Israel
As talks collapse, president Minouche Shafik offers investment in Gaza, while urging anti-Israel protesters to disperse voluntarily; some demonstrators warn university ‘will burn’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Yad Vashem chief Dani Dayan in the Hall of Names at the Jerusalem museum, undated. (Alex Kolomoisky)
April 27, 2024, 10:43 am
Yad Vashem to Columbia president: Take a moral stand against ‘eliminate Israel’ ideology
Dayan tells Shafik to decide if Israel’s elimination can be ‘a legitimate cause’ in syllabi, lectures, events; draws line from NY school to Heidelberg University in 1930s Germany
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounces antisemitism in the United States in a video statement issued April 24, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 24, 2024, 11:33 pm
Netanyahu likens US campus encampments by ‘antisemitic mobs’ to 1930s Nazi Germany
PM claims anti-Israel protesters are also chanting ‘Death to America’; standoff at Columbia continues amid dueling claims about talks with management on taking down tents
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A man walks past Israeli and US flags alongside portraits of Israelis taken hostage by the Palestinian terror group Hamas, in front of the anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University in New York on April 23, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
April 24, 2024, 11:04 am
Columbia threatens to remove anti-Israel encampment as protests roil universities
Deadline extended after progress in talks with activists, who demand school rescind threat to bring in National Guard; classes canceled at Cal campus as protesters occupy building
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Columbia President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on 'Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism' on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 17, 2024. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
April 18, 2024, 3:19 pm
At House hearing, Columbia president says university could do more against antisemitism
Faced with question that felled peers at Harvard and Pennsylvania, Nemat Shafik say calls for genocide of Jews do violate school’s code of conduct
By JTA and ToI Staff
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