Columbia’s President will be on the congressional hot seat tomorrow, following the trail blazed by three other university presidents last year, two of whom later lost their jobs. President Nemat Shafik has the advantage of at least knowing what she’s in for ahead of time.
On Wednesday, Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, will testify about antisemitism before the same House committee that grilled the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When asked a question about whether calling for the genocide of Jews would break their universities’ rules, the presidents responded with lawyerly answers that sparked a spiraling backlash…
This hearing may be different, because Dr. Shafik and Columbia University already know many of the questions they will face and have had months to prepare.
If that’s the upside for Shafik the…
