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August 16, 2024

The President of Columbia’s Resignation Is a Victory for the Anti-Semites, Not the Jews

Minouche Shafik was twice a victim of aggrieved nationalism.

News broke on Tuesday that Columbia University’s president, Minouche Shafik, is stepping down. (She is going to work for the British foreign minister David Lammy, one of whose first acts on the job was to try to promulgate a ban on arms sales to Israel.) Elise Stefanik, who has led Congress’s efforts to do something about the anti-Israel mania on college campuses, celebrated the news. Martin Kramer, who has for decades been calling attention to the moral and intellectual decline of Columbia, has a different perspective:

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