Columbia University protests: Rep. Elise Stefanik urges trustees to remove Shafik after mob seizes building

House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is calling for the removal of Columbia University President Dr. Nemat 'Minouche' Shafik, after a mob of anti-Israel agitators took over an academic building early Tuesday morning.

Stefanik accused the university of allowing antisemitism and disorder to spread on campus for 'far too long,' and failed to enforce the university president’s deadlines for the encampment to clear. She also accused the school of preventing the New York City Police Department from entering campus and removing the encampment. 'Under President Shafik's failed leadership, the rule of law at Columbia does not exist and consequences have gone without enforcement,' Stefanik wrote.

This is a dereliction of duty. President Shafik has bent over backwards to appease antisemitic radicals and agitators who have sown chaos,' she added. 'By enabling this to happen, President Shafik is first and foremost violating the rights of Jewish students and faculty, but also creating an environment that is unsafe for all on campus.

Last week, Stefanik sent a letter to top members of the Biden administration, demanding federal intervention to protect Jewish students. In the letter, she described the protesters as an 'unsanctioned mob of students and agitators permitted to continue to target Jewish students' and cited antisemitic incidents that have occurred as a result of their activity. 'Consequences are needed for those who are calling for terrorism and violent attacks,' she wrote.

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