Columbia President Shafik Downplays Pro-Hamas Mob, Treats Last Few Weeks Like a Preschool Argument
Shafik promotes “empathy” and “compassion” because apparently there are very fine people on both sides…
Columbia President Shafik broke her silence now that the pro-Hamas mob encampment no longer exists and it’s late on a Friday! Seriously…she made it worse from her with this speech.
The video is below, and I transcribed it so you won’t have to listen to her speech. Here’s an excellent summary:
“I tried to negotiate with terrorists, and failed. However, I still have deep respect for the people who single handedly trashed and tarnished the institution I have been appointed to lead, and I promise to do better by turning the other cheek next time.”
— batshelmelech (@gracezilbersh) May 3, 2024
Shafik has no self-awareness. None. It’s like she never paid attention to what happened on the campus from day one.
Shafik lives on Fantasy Island. In fact, she has her own “very fine people on both sides” moment. Also has a “I have black friends” moment. Yes, she adds Islamaphobia and anti-Arab remarks, too!
Because we totes saw hatred and heard death threats thrown at Muslims and Arabs at Columbia. Oh, wait…
Overall, Shafik treats the last few weeks at Columbia like a preschool fight. She thinks dialogue, empathy, and compassion can solve everything. FEELS.
I guess Shafik missed the antisemitic and genocidal chants coming from the mob. I bet she thinks, like the Biden Administration, a two-state solution is the only way to go when we all know these pro-Hamas people don’t want Israel to exist. They don’t want Jews to exist.
The only students who felt unsafe on campus? JEWISH STUDENTS. My goodness, I cannot even with these people.
Also, wake up, lady. The majority of the people there weren’t even students. Cops have found similar leaflets and literature at encampments in New York City.
Here you go. Have a good laugh!
A message from President Shafik. pic.twitter.com/zd8i2DE4wp
— Columbia University (@Columbia) May 3, 2024
These past two weeks have been among the most difficult in Columbia’s history. The turmoil and tension, division and disruption have impacted the entire community. You, our students, have paid an especially high price. You lost your final days in the classroom and residence halls. For those of you who are seniors, you’re finishing college the way you started: online. No matter where you stand on any issue, Columbia should be a community that feels welcome and safe for everyone.
We tried very hard to resolve the issue of the encampment through dialogue. Many people who gathered there were largely peaceful and cared deeply about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Academic leaders talked with students for eight days and nights. The university made a sincere and good offer, but it was not accepted.
A group of protesters crossed a new line with the occupation of Hamilton Hall. It was a violent act that put our students at risk, as well as putting the protesters at risk. I walked through the building and saw the damage which was distressing.
But despite all that has happened, I have confidence.
During the listening sessions I held with students in recent months, I’ve been heartened by your intelligence, thoughtfulness, and kindness. The ones that impressed me the most were those who acknowledged that the other side had some valid points. We need more of that at Columbia. Every one of us has a role to play in bringing back the values of truth and civil discourse, that polarization has severely damaged.
Here at Columbia, parallel realities and parallel conversations have walled us off from other perspectives. Working together, I know we can break down these barriers.
As many of you know, I was born in the Middle East. I grew up in a Muslim family with many Jewish and Christian friends. I spent decades working in international organizations with people from every nationality and religion in the world. Where if you can’t bridge divides and see the other side’s point of view, you can’t get anything done.
I learned from that experience that people can disagree and still make progress. The issues that are challenging us – Palestinian-Israeli conflict, antisemitism, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim – have existed for a long time, and Columbia, despite being a remarkable institution, cannot solve them single-handedly.
What we can do is be an exemplar of a better world, where people who disagree do so civilly, recognize each other’s humanity and show empathy and compassion for one another.
We have a lot to do, but I am committed to working at it every day and with each of you to rebuild community on our campus.
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Did I miss something? Was there any evidence of wanting a dialog in the kill-the-jews group? Maybe Ms. Unselfaware can provide some insight on this.
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These unqualified woke, affirmative action chicks whether College Presidents, Police Chiefs, Mayors or DA’s will be the death of this country.
Shafik has no self-awareness. None. It’s like she never paid attention to what happened on the campus from day one.
Actually, she understands perfectly that international students are a “cash cow” important to the financial health of universities. International students are often subsidized by their respective governments, and pay tuition rates much higher than American students. No way does Shafik jeopardize that and demand that Muslim students stop calling for a new Holocaust! And if the white American trust fund babies want to cosplay as Muslim terrorists (in “solidarity”, natch!) and dream of another Munich – well, Diversity Is Our Strength (TM), amirite?!
So what if the campus got trashed and Jewish students were terrorized, with dark hints of even worse to come? I’m sure the rich dolt alumni can be persuaded to open their wallets a bit wider to stave off “right wing attacks” on the universities (conservatives are typically cast in the role of Emmanuel Goldstein in the fever swamps of higher education”).
It American taxpayers spend billions on the university systems, billions, through tax’s, which is BS, and student costs
But the American taxpayers are treated as the clowns we apparently have become
By the way, good people on both sides remake by President Trump , was only incorrect in that the left are scum
I am old enough to remember when TX governor Rick Perry proposed a $10,000 bachelor degree – and got savagely raked for his efforts.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2014/04/18/texass_impossible_10k_degree_marches_on_916.html
Make no mistake: the educrats have gotten rich pushing degrees costing six figures. They have no financial interest in stopping now. Whether intended or not, high tuition paid by international students partially drive the steep rise in education costs.
You can get an associate degree in Tx while in HS. So half of your degree is paid for in HS.
If I had kids that age, that’s the way to go. You can also get tech, auto, mechanical where I live.
It’s the way it should be and we need more of it
People had 8th grade educations, or less, that made this Country the success it was, this bs education mafia has got to be dealt with
But what an 8th grade education it was.
America had farmers who read in Latin and Greek, which were then entrance requirements to higher education — until about 1900, half of all high-school students were taking Latin.
Damn, some keycap combo submitted while I was trying to space down to add the link:
https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/spring-2011-the-city-bounces-back-four-portraits/classical-education-in-america
As a community college instructor who teaches 1st and 2nd year basic engineering courses that is music to my ears.
It is blasphemy for me to say it, but not everyone who wants to work in a technical field needs a 4-year degree. One of the most welcome developments in higher education is the rise of certification programs and two year associates degrees. Why rack up an insane amount of debt that can never be repaid when you can have an education that is much cheaper and lets you work in many exciting branches of science and technology?
From my point of view the only drawback is that for anyone who wants to become a licensed PE the state of Texas requires you to have an ABET-certified four year bachelor degree in engineering or related field. Many jobs require someone who is a PE, and it is difficult to do consulting engineering without it.
If I had kids I’d recommend, and pay for, a trade school degree or community college degree in a trade. Right out of the box into high 5 figures with little debt.
Respectfully, I would make a slight change. International students are not necessary for thr “financial health” of a university. Rather, they are there to grow the business so that administrators and faculty all make more money.
They pay full tuition, but so does the upper middle class in America. And with the new FAFSA, those families will no longer get a break for having more than one kid in college.
Colleges are the biggest money scam in our economy. Massive wealth transfers to their favored applicants, from the “reactionaries” in the American middle class as well as foreigners so wealthy they don’t even feel the hit very much. Unlike every single other service in the world that has the same price for everyone, colleges get to move money from some customers removing their families’ lifetime savings and creating lifelong debt, to others, given a free ride (as well as “styrofoam” majors) into activist positions in the economy and government.
Remember, Muslims consider it ok to lie to infidels. She should be expelled with all the agitators. All her work should be examined foe plagiarism. She is likely another useless Affirmative, promoted far past her competency.
This, this, a thousand times this.
Subotai Bahadur
And don’t forget, when she was the head honcho at the London School of Economics, she had an anti-Semitic riot at the school..
While she promised there would be consequences for those involved, none ever materialized. Such will be the case at Columbia, either because she’s too cowardly to do anything or because she’s sympathetic to the Hamasnik position, or both.
Cool beans! After hearing this I am totes reassured that zero repetition of antisemitic mobs will occur. /S
I’m reminded of that scene in the sci-fi/action film Independence Day when the president asks the alien prisoner, ‘What is it you want us to do?’ and the alien responds, ‘Die.’ How many times do Muslims have to take to our streets and chant, ‘Death to America’ before idiots like President ‘Shafik’ believe them?
It’s sooner than you think
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/05/04/violently-outspoken-hamas-supporter-wins-uk-election-because-the-west-is-intent-on-destroying-itself-n2173736
I think that she is probably one of them.
Replace shafik. Time to clear the decks and start over.
“Replace shafik. Time to clear the decks and start over.”
May I suggest we add the entire Board of Trustees, Columbia’s General Counsel, and all of these people, too:
https://president.columbia.edu/administration
This woman should be in prison as a co-conspirator in these riots, aiding and abetting violent assaults against students, depraved indifference, and numerous civil rights violations against hundreds of students.
In. Prison.
The “fine people on both sides” is good but you have to know how to argue and what to argue about.
As it is, the argument is about who is the most oppressed.
Apparently so long as ‘work makes you free’ you aren’t oppressed.
Huh??
That’s just completely retarded. I am really impressed with how all of the Ivies have managed to find idiot women to lead their institutions down the path of complete self-destruction. One female Ivy president is worse than the next. You think you’ve hit rock-bottom, with the dumbest one and then another Ivy league presidential chick opens her pie hole and makes you reassess the depths to which human intellect can sink.
This one being an Egyptian muslim makes her a real prize, on top of everything else.
The Ivy league needs to have all federal funds cut off from it, now. Everything. No loans, no loan guarantees (even though Uncle Sam doesn’t do that anymore since BarkyCare had the feds take over the whole student loan industry), no more research money. Let the Ivies get their money from their humungous endowments or private money – though they should be barred from accepting foreign money for anything.
The Ivies have proven themselves to be net drains on society and should be put down.
“One female Ivy president is worse than the next. ”
So there’s an improving trend.
Heh.
She’s not just any Egyptian Muslim, otherwise she would not have had the career she’s had, largely built on plagiarism and lowered academic standards as we’ve recently learned, and would not have been appointed a life peer, Baroness in the UK. She skipped Lady (equivalent of Lord) and got Baroness!
I’d look deep behind the Muslim Brotherhood and see if there’s a family connection. The MB has strength from some sort of “deep state” and her family might be related. Just a thought, I really don’t know more than I am saying here.
most women are socialists
male globalists are socialists
the rest of the world better wake up to that and deal with it now as 2020 shut down of america as orchestrated by the woke mob in congress
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The interesting thing is married women voted for Trump and polling shows his winning married woman by at least 8-points. In fact, Trump is wining ever married/gender demo: Single Men, Married Men & Married Woman. The only reason this race is even remotely close is because Biden is winning single women by 30-points. Single women will be the end of this country.
Women vote on who seems to mean well. Foolishness is women’s failing, corresponding to skepticism in men.
I can’t believe this coward looks like she may survive this mess with her job intact. Seriously. She allowed Jewish students on campus to be threatened, assaulted, all in violation of Federal Law. Has no courage or leadership abilities. Is completely feckless and non serious. That she is still running this place (we all know the Jew Hating faculty and pro agitators really run it) is a joke. Like the rest of the Ivy League. A racist joke.
Since she is apparently (you can tell in this most recent speech) an antisemite, she had plenty of courage and leadership abilities, to bring the Muslim students, faculty and administration through this disruption successfully with no concessions at all to the Jews, and some minor slaps on the wrist to students who got caught publicly being violent against Jews.
Baroness Shafik is above us. Despite the kerfuffle of the past couple weeks, Columbia’s real estate holdings are safely under control again, and the agenda continues.
She cared about the real estate holdings. She never gave a damn about the Jewish students or faculty. This is clear as a bell, and her tone rings the same as it always has.
But she really should be attacked for plagiarism. That might bring her down despite her (life, not hereditary) title of nobility and her presumed family wealth and connection in the middle east.
Was the fox remiss in guarding the henhouse?
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