House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign Wednesday in a speech at the embattled Ivy League university.
House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign Wednesday in a speech at the embattled Ivy League university.
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests and encampments have taken over large swaths of the New York college’s campus and those of other campuses in the past week following Shafik’s House testimony on antisemitism. During that April 17 hearing, Shafik was grilled by Republicans about her inability to stop acts of antisemitism on her campus and to control the chaos.
Protests at the school have since escalated.
On Tuesday, Columbia announced that its classes would endorse a hybrid model, in which students could choose to go remote for the rest of the school year.
In his speech, which was met with frequent heckling and booing, Johnson, R-La., said that this hybrid model was unacceptable and that it’s being used to discriminate against Jewish students.
