Pro-Palestine Protests Escalate At Columbia University

“Trying to reconcile the free speech rights of those who want to protest and the rights of Jewish students to be in an environment free of discrimination and harassment has been the central challenge on our campus and numerous others across the country,” Columbia President Minouche Shafik admitted on Capitol Hill this week.

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“Columbia president to lawmakers: Balancing right to protest and Jewish students rights is a ‘central challenge,’” reported Bianca Quilantan and Mackenzie Wilkes for POLITICO on Wednesday.

“On Wednesday, Columbia President Minouche Shafik acknowledged that her campus has seen a rise in antisemitic incidents,” began Quilantan and Wilkes. “She also defended her administration’s efforts to address them, including by creating reporting channels for incidents, hiring additional staff to investigate complaints, launching an antisemitism taskforce, and developing new policies on demonstrations.”

“Trying to reconcile the free speech rights of those who want to protest and the rights of Jewish students to be in an environment free of discrimination and harassment has been the central challenge on our campus and numerous others across the country,” the Columbia president told lawmakers.

“Shafik, who has been in the job for less than a year, is the latest Ivy League…