A professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School, Shai Davidai, has been under fire by the academia and students who have been vocal against the Zionist narrative at American universities as Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues to get condemned.
In a recent post on his social media pages, he uploaded a video of a Muslim leading Jummah prayer at Columbia University, saying, “Let the world know”, in an effort to portray the act as regressive or extreme.
Supporters of professor Davidai, led by the #EndJewHatred movement, staged a protest on Wednesday urging University President Minouche Shafik to resign, alleging insufficient protection for Jewish students.
The protest followed Shafik’s testimony at a House Committee hearing titled “Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University’s Response to Antisemitism.”
Davidai, in his address, has accused Shafik of dishonesty and called for her resignation, pledging to ensure the safety of Jewish and non-Jewish communities in collaboration with future university leadership.
On the other hand, hundreds of students from Columbia University and outsiders have been demonstrating and have set up and an encampment.
Shafik authorised police to clear tents, stating that they have breached the university’s rules and policies by holding unauthorised demonstrations as well as not engaging with administrators.
The police have arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian student protesters at New York’s Columbia University Thursday, a day after the president of the prestigious school was grilled in Congress over accusations of anti-Semitism on campus.
