FINALLY! Embattled Columbia University Muslim president Nemat Minouche Shafik resigns months after she declined to protect Jewish students from violent anti-Israel student protesters

Shafik is stepping away after just one year at the helm, which was marked by constant — and sometimes destructive — anti-Israel protests, the Free Beacon reported.

NY Post The resignation comes just one week after three university deans resigned from Columbia following the exposure of their “very troubling” text chain that disparaged Israeli and Jewish students’ fears of rising anti-Semitism on campus.

Shafik’s letter of resignation:

In April 2024, Columbia University’s president, Egyptian-born Muslim, Nemat ‘Minouche’ Shafik, insisted that the Ivy League school was doing all it could to crackdown on rising anti-Semitism, yet the campus remains filled with a slew of mostly Muslim professors who have a history of spewing controversial anti-Israel/anti-Jewish remarks.

NY Post Ranging from a politics professor who declared that the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel was “awesome” to another who boasted “Yes, I’m with Hamas,” Columbia President Nemat ‘Minouche’ Shafik was forced to address some of her faculty’s remarks as she was grilled by lawmakers in Washington DC.

Several Columbia University faculty members were mentioned specifically by name during the congressional hearing. Others, though, have also been ripped over their history of remarks.

A professor of modern Arab politics and history, Joseph Massad has been teaching at the Ivy League school for the past 25 years. Massad, who earned his PhD at Columbia in 1998, teaches within the university’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS), according to his bio.

The tenured academic has faced widespread calls to be fired ever since he referred to the Oct. 7 attack inflicted by Hamas terrorists as “awesome” and a “stunning victory of the Palestinian resistance.” “The sight of the Palestinian resistance fighters storming Israeli checkpoints separating Gaza from Israel was astounding,” Massad penned in a 1,800 word essay published 24 hours after the bloodshed. “Perhaps the major achievement of the resistance in the temporary takeover of these settler-colonies is the death blow to any confidence that Israeli colonists had in their military and its ability to protect them.”

Massad, who once called Israel “a racist state”, has also previously come under fire for allegedly spewing anti-Israeli remarks in class and for comparing Hamas aggression against Israel to the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis during WWII. A student-led petition calling for him to be axed over those remarks has received more than 78,000 signatures

Harvard Law Professor-Emiritus, Alan Dershowitz, references Columbia professor Joseph Massad, who before he had been granted tenure, told an Israeli student he was not allowed to speak in his class until he was prepared to accuse Israel of war crimes.

Mohamed Abdou was brought on as a visiting Columbia scholar for the spring 2024 semesterand teaches a weekly class on “Decolonial-Queerness & Abolition.”

The bio on Columbia’s website describes Abdou as “a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition and decolonization.”

Just days after the Oct. 7 attack, Abdou controversially declared on social media, “Yes, I’m with Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.”

Hamid Dabashi is a professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at the Ivy League school. He is also the current director of undergrad studies within the MESAAS department, per his faculty bio. He’s come under fire in recent years for a slew of controversial social media posts, including a since-deleted one in which he blamed Israel for every “dirty” problem in the world.

“Every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious happening in the world just wait for a few days and the ugly name ‘Israel’ will pop up in the atrocities,” Dabashi wrote in the 2018 Facebook post, cited by the Jewish Journal.

His remark was in response to a New York Times article that accused Israeli intelligence of gathering dirt on President Barack Obama’s then-national security aide. In a separate post, Dabashi also allegedly bashed Zionists as “hyenas” – sparking calls from a pro-Israel student group for the professor to be rebuked.  

Kayum Ahmed, a former-director at billionaire George Soros’ Open Society foundation, is now a law lecturer within Columbia’s school of public health, according to his bio. He has previously been ripped for allegedly indoctrinating his students to hate Israel via his lectures, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In a video from one of his lectures prior to the Oct. 7 attack, Ahmed labeled Israel a “colonial settler state” that has “oppressed indigenous populations” and “displaced” Palestinians.

Katherine Franke, a law professor and activist, has been teaching at the school since 1999.  She was brought up during Wednesday’s hearing by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) who claimed the professor had said, “All Israeli students who served in the I.D.F. [Israel Defense Forces] are dangerous and shouldn’t be on campus.”

It wasn’t immediately clear, though, where Franke made the remark. “I actually said, ‘many Israeli students who come to Columbia’s campus are coming right out of their military service and have been known to harass Palestinian and other students on our campus’,” Franke said.  

Franke also recently penned an op-ed in The Nation criticizing Columbia, in part, for threatening academic freedom and “waging war on dissent.” “The university is under pressure to root out any students or faculty critical of Israel — and it’s already caved,” the law professor wrote.