And here we thought that the rest of the Poison Ivies had ridden out their anti-Semitism scandals. Late last night, the embattled president of Columbia University abruptly resigned, four months after getting humiliated in a congressional hearing.
Minouche Shafik, perhaps the worst of the Ivy League presidents at dealing with rabid anti-Semitic activists seizing campuses, became the fourth executive to step down since the October 7 atrocities touched off the crisis. Or is it the fifth?
Minouche Shafik resigned Wednesday as Columbia University’s president, ending an embattled 13-month term during which her New York City campus was the scene of a series of chaotic and sometimes violent protests by students, faculty and other activists.
Protests over the Israel-Hamas war began in October and continued through much of the winter at Columbia and many other schools. The protests…
