Every one Dwelling Republican from New York is demanding that Columbia University President Dr. Nemat “Minouche” Shafik stage down from primary the Ivy League university as tensions mount on campus around the Israel-Hamas war.
“Around the previous couple days, anarchy has engulfed the campus of Columbia University. As the leader of this institution, one particular of your chief targets, morally and under law, is to make sure college students have a safe learning natural environment. By each and every evaluate, you have unsuccessful this obligation,” the GOP lawmakers wrote.
“The situation unfolding on campus proper now is a direct products of your policies and misguided choices. As associates from the Point out of New York, a lot of of our constituents are instantly impacted by the unfolding chaos on Columbia’s campus.”
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Rep. Elise Stefanik led the Home GOP lawmakers from New York in a letter urging Columbia University’s president to step down. (Getty Illustrations or photos)
The lawmakers said they experienced “no self-confidence” in Shafik’s “leadership of this when esteemed establishment.”
The letter was led by Dwelling GOP Meeting Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and signed by her nine fellow Republicans symbolizing sections of the state.
In their criticism of the embattled educational, the lawmakers cited Shafik’s current congressional testimony at a heated GOP-led hearing examining accusations of antisemitism on campus and the university administration’s job in combating it.
Shafik, in the meantime, has been lambasted by individuals on both of those sides of the divide, catching heat from the progressive activist neighborhood for permitting NYPD officers to arrest protesters at the tent encampment.
Columbia University President Nemat Shafik testified in advance of Congress very last 7 days. (AP Photograph/Jose Luis Magana)
Even so, in their Monday letter, the Home Republicans wrote, “Regardless of employing new policies to end these unauthorized events and this illegal, antisemitic encampment clearly violating these guidelines, it was nearly two days before the New York Law enforcement Department (NYPD) was licensed to crystal clear the encampment.”
“Considering the fact that then, the encampment has shockingly been allowed to reconvene, get has not been restored, and NYPD has not been authorized to return,” they wrote. “The ongoing scenario that has unfolded is a immediate symptom of your continued lax enforcement of plan and clear double standards.”
Columbia University college students and attendees of its sister faculty, Barnard College or university, have been camping on university grounds and staging demonstrations for weeks in protest of the university’s investments in companies tied to Israel.
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Some Jewish college students have even claimed becoming targeted bodily and verbally by mobs of anti-Israel protesters on campus. Lessons have moved to a hybrid remote and in-man or woman status amid fears around students’ safety.
“It is time for Columbia University to convert the webpage on this shameful chapter,” the letter explained. “This can only be finished via the restoration of buy and your prompt resignation.”
Fox News Electronic has arrived at out to Columbia University for a response.
