Anti-Israel agitators occupy Columbia campus as university president faces grilling from Congress

Anti-Israel agitators occupied Columbia University's south lawn for hours as university president Minouche Shafik testified before Congress on Wednesday. Dozens of protesters camped out in tents on school grounds, calling on the university to divest itself from companies that have ties to Israel. Shafik is on Capitol Hill to testify regarding antisemitism on Columbia's campus alongside co-chairs of the university's board of trustees.

The anti-apartheid movement and student organizing struggle at Columbia has been alive and well for over 60 years, and we carry all of those organizers with us as we come here today,' Catherine Elias, one of the student protesters, told the Spectator. Shafik and her colleagues were summoned to testify before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce regarding their efforts to combat campus antisemitism, which has skyrocketed in the U.S. following Oct. 7.

Columbia banned two anti-Israel student groups as protests reached a fever pitch late last year. Both Students for Justice in Palestine and the Jewish Voice for Peace violated university policies against harassment of other students. Shafik gave a preview of her testimony in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Tuesday, saying she and other administrators did their best to weigh the safety of students against free speech rights.

The students described vicious antisemitic incidents happening at Harvard, Columbia, UC Berkeley and several other universities.

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