The New York Times reported yesterday that the British national, sometime government or IMF official, Baroness Nemat “Minouche” Shafik resigned her short term as president of Columbia University in New York on Aug. 14.
Shafik set an unmatched standard at Columbia of suppression of student protest, after it became the initiating campus in the winter-spring 2024 nationwide student protests against the Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip. Working with a New York Police Department with liaison units to the Israeli military, and with New York Mayor Eric Adams, Shafik repeatedly occupied the Columbia campus with large numbers of police, arresting students who were being alleged as “anti-Semites” by Republican Congressional leaders and ADL billionaires. The campus remains restricted today; only those presenting Columbia identification to police can enter it from surrounding streets.
