Columbia Professors Declare Solidarity With Student Protesters and Call for Shafik’s Resignation
23rd April 2024
A 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.
One faculty member, Columbia University history professor Christopher Brown, called for Shafik’s resignation over her decision to call in the NYPD to round up and arrest unruly student protesters who refused to vacate the campus green.
“I have no confidence in the president’s leadership,” Brown said. “She has forfeited the privilege to lead this great university.”