Former Columbia U. President Claims She Doesn’t Remember Students Calling for Israel’s Destruction

Former Columbia U. President Claims She Doesn’t Remember Students Calling for Israel’s Destruction

How can she even say this with a straight face? Does she think no one remembers the last year and a half?

Campus Reform reports:

Former Columbia president says during deposition she doesn’t remember students calling for Israel’s destruction

Former Columbia University Interim President Katrina Armstrong recently stated that she has “no specific memory” of learning about students calling for the destruction of Israel, despite the fact that anti-Israel activists have been protesting at the institution for well over a year.

Armstrong made the statement during a deposition for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The transcript of the deposition has been obtained and published online by The Washington Free Beacon.

During her testimony, the Columbia administrator was asked whether she remembered learning about anti-Zionist rhetoric at the school. After initially not directly answering the question, Armstrong contended she had “no specific memory” of hearing that information.

“Do you remember learning that students were calling for the destruction of the state of Israel?” Armstrong was asked during the deposition.

“I remember meeting with many students and hearing many things,” Armstrong began. “Sitting here, I have, you know, no specific memory of hearing that, but I recognize the concern about that and understand that.”

Armstrong was also asked about the effectiveness of Columbia’s anti-Semitism task force. At one point, when asked about which definition of anti-Semitism the school administration chose to implement, Armstrong remarked: “this is not my area of expertise.”

“Again, this is not my area of expertise. This area of definition, as they say, the working definition of antisemitism for pedagogy and training,” she replied.

Campus Reform has reported that Armstrong resigned from her position in the Columbia administration after repeated incidents of anti-Semitic conduct rocked the school’s Morningside Heights campus.

During Armstrong’s short tenure, anti-Israel activists at Columbia shared a guide for vandalism, which encouraged students to create “targets” that “enabled and profited” from the “Israeli weapons industry.

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