Professor Shai Davidai has been an outspoken critic of the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University since they began, right after the October 7th attacks. In March of this year, the school launched an investigation of Davidai. In April, he was blocked from entering the main campus during a protest.
Now the school has barred him from campus for allegedly threatening behavior.
FOX News reports:
Columbia University bars pro-Israel professor from campus for ‘threatening behavior’Columbia University assistant professor of business and pro-Israel advocate Shai Davidai was barred from campus Tuesday.In a statement to Fox News Digital, the university confirmed Davidai was suspended, saying he had “repeatedly harassed and intimidated” university employees.The statement said Davidai’s restrictions were a “direct result of Assistant Professor Davidai’s conduct on October 7, 2024,” though it did not elaborate on the incident in question.Davidai blasted the decision, claiming it was in retaliation for “expos[ing]” university employees on video at Oct. 7 anniversary protests on campus.”[T]he University has decided to not allow me to be on campus anymore. My job. Why? Because of Oct. 7. Because I was not afraid to stand up to the hateful mob,” Davidai said, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. He recorded himself confronting administrators.”Columbia has consistently and continually respected Assistant Professor Davidai’s right to free speech and to express his views. His freedom of speech has not been limited and is not being limited now. Columbia, however, does not tolerate threats of intimidation, harassment, or other threatening behavior by its employees,” University spokesperson Samantha Slater said.
This part of the story from the Columbia Daily Spectator is downright outrageous:
Though Davidai was restricted from entering campus, these limitations don’t affect his compensation or status as a faculty member, a University spokesperson told Spectator. The University offered to provide Davidai with alternative office space off campus, the spokesperson said.Davidai will be allowed back on campus once he “undertakes appropriate training on our policies governing the behavior of our employees,” Wert wrote.
As if all of that isn’t bad enough, you may recall that one of the student radicals who was a leader in the hostile takeover of a campus building last spring, is now teaching at the university.
So to recap, Jewish professors who object to campus antisemitism get retraining and student radicals get teaching jobs.
All of the Ivy League schools have embarrassed themselves on this issue over the last year, but Columbia has shown itself to be the worst example. It’s a disgrace.
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