A pro-Israel professor at Columbia University declared on Monday that he was denied entry while making his way to lead a sit-in at the campus site where anti-Israel demonstrators have set up camp.
Shai Davidai, an assistant professor in the Management Division of Columbia Business School, can be seen in one video posted to social media telling onlookers outside a gate that the university had deactivated his ID card.
Columbia has deactivated Shai Davidai’s ID, he is blocked from campus pic.twitter.com/38pIgdDFf3
— Luke Tress (@luketress) April 22, 2024
In another, Davidai confronted Columbia University COO Cas Holloway, who responded by telling Davidai that he would be allowed to hold his own demonstration on the Math Lawn, which is separate from the South Lawn where pro-Palestinian protesters have set up their so-called “Liberation Zone.”
“You can not let people who support Hamas…
