Columbia President Minouche Shafik Resigns After Months of Investigation Over Her Coddling of "Student" "Protesters"

Terrorists on education visas, this means.

Embattled Columbia University president Minouche Shafik suddenly resigned Wednesday and is escaping back to her home country after leading the elite institution for less than a year that was marked by constant -- and sometimes destructive -- anti-Israel protests.

Shafik announced she would be "stepping down" from the Ivy League in a letter to the student body and blamed the "period of turmoil" for her shocking departure.

"This period has taken a considerable toll on my family, as it has for others in our community," Shafik wrote.

"Over the summer, I have been able to reflect and have decided that my moving on at this point would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges ahead.

"I am making this announcement now so that new leadership can be in place before the new term begins."

In her letter, the scholar revealed she is leaving the prestigious school to return to the United Kingdom -- where she spent most of her career -- for a gig with its foreign secretary as a chair tasked with reviewing the government's approach to international development.

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The community, however, is not convinced the change in leadership will have any effect on stopping last year's chaos from trickling into the fall semester.

"University leadership has been promising that combating antisemitism is a priority, but many students are arriving in just a few weeks, and I don't have confidence that the campus situation this fall is going to look any different than it did in the spring," Matthew Waxman, a law professor and member of the school's task force on antisemitism, told The Post.

Waxman was shocked by the resignation and said it was too soon to tell whether it was the right move for the school. The bigger question, he continued, is whether Columbia is going to crack down on new rules aimed at mitigating antisemitism.

"We're going to have a big test in just a few weeks," he said.

"And if they're not enforced, then we'll know that the university just isn't serious."

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She was accused of "gross negligence" while testifying before Congress after refusing to say whether the phrase "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" should be considered antisemitic.

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Shafik's resignation comes just one week after three university deans resigned from Columbia following the exposure of their "very troubling" text chain that disparaged Israeli and Jewish students' fears of rising anti-Semitism on campus.

That's a reference to professors' texts that suggested that Jews were able to call attention to pro-Hamas' protesters' crimes because of all of their Jewish Money.

The deans at the center of the Columbia University texting scandal scoffed that Jewish students concerned about the eruption of anti-Semitism on campus are "coming from a place of privilege" and suggested those students have more institutional support than their peers because of their supposed wealth, according to new messages reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

The messages, obtained by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and released on Tuesday, show that three of the deans--Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick, and Cristen Kromm--engaged in a more extensive pattern of disparagement than has been previously reported and shed new light on how Columbia officials reacted in real-time to a panel on anti-Semitism held during the university's alumni weekend.

"I'm going to throw up," Chang-Kim, Columbia's vice dean and chief administrative officer, wrote to her colleagues roughly an hour into the panel. The text's timing aligns with remarks from an audience member and daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Orly Mishan, who described how her own daughter, a Columbia sophomore, "was hiding in plain sight" on campus after the Oct. 7 attacks.

"Amazing what $$$$ can do," replied Kromm, the dean of undergraduate student life.

The new messages suggest that the administrators, who were placed on leave pending a university investigation after a Free Beacon report revealed snippets of their text exchanges, see concerns about anti-Semitism as manifestations of entitlement.

"They will have their own dorm soon," Patashnick, the associate dean for student and family support, said of Jewish students, after the head of Columbia Hillel, Brian Cohen, said that many Jews felt more comfortable spending time at the Kraft Center he runs than in their own dormitories following the Oct. 7 attacks.

"Comes from such a place of privilege," Chang-Kim wrote two minutes later. "Trying to be open minded to understand but the doors are closing."

The deans also ridiculed Cohen's efforts to provide support services, including psychological counseling, to Jewish and Israeli students following Oct. 7, implying that they were receiving special treatment denied to other groups.

"Not all heroes wear capes," Patashnick texted sarcastically. "If only every identity community had these resources and support," Kromm replied.

In 2024, Columbia hosted separate graduation events for black, Asian, Native American, LGBT, and "Latinx" students. Jews were one of the only minority groups not to host a ceremony of their own.

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Other text messages obtained by the Free Beacon from the same panel show the four deans dismissing claims of anti-Semitism.

At one point during the panel, Chang-Kim texted Sorett to say the panel "is difficult to listen to but I'm trying to keep an open mind to learn about this point of view." Sorett responded, "Yup."

Kromm, meanwhile, used vomit emojis--"🤢🤮"--to reference an op-ed from Columbia campus rabbi Yonah Hain that raised concerns about the "normalization of Hamas" on campus.

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The new texts obtained by the committee, meanwhile, show Kromm and Chang echoed an assessment from Patashnick that Cohen took "full advantage of this moment" for its "huge fundraising potential."

The Islamization and Third Worldization of the West is now at a galloping pace.

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