Jewish Prof Who Has Spoken Out About Anti-Israel Mobs at Columbia From the Beginning, Leaves School
“I can confirm that I have decided to leave Columbia and that the university’s failure to take the anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American protests seriously is the reason.”
Professor Shai Davidai, a Columbia University professor who is an Israeli Jew, has been speaking out against the anti-Israel mobs at the school since the moment they began, shortly after the October 7th attacks.
Davidai began sounding the alarm at the end of October 2023, sharing a video on social media of himself at Columbia, calling out elite schools for allowing pro-terror groups on their campuses. In March of 2024, he was investigated by the school. Later in the year, he was barred from campus for his allegedly ‘threatening’ behavior.
He fought the good fight on this issue, fearlessly, since day one, and now he has left the school.
FOX News reports:
Israeli Columbia professor leaves school over failure to address anti-Israel protests
Israeli Columbia University professor Shai Davidai left the school on Wednesday after ongoing frustration with anti-Israel protests on campus.
“I can confirm that I have decided to leave Columbia and that the university’s failure to take the anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli and anti-American protests seriously is the reason,” Davidai told Fox News Digital. “Columbia leadership has failed, the faculty has lost its moral compass and too many of my colleagues just look the other way.”
He added, “I don’t trust the acting president, the university’s leadership or the entire board of trustees to do the right thing, and I don’t see my colleagues stepping up to hold them accountable. I wouldn’t advise anyone to come work here, so what’s the point of staying?”
A Columbia University spokesperson also confirmed the news to Fox News Digital.
“Assistant Professor of Business Shai Davidai has decided to depart Columbia, effective July 8, 2025. The University thanks him for his service and wishes him the best in his future endeavors,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Davidai also announced on Wednesday that the school had dropped an ongoing investigation launched against him in February 2024.
From his Twitter/X account:
BOOM.
(Please help me spread this. @Columbia tried to smear my name. I wouldn’t let them. Today, they finally admitted that I hadn’t done anything wrong.) pic.twitter.com/P7Af6QrJXD
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) July 9, 2025
“@Columbia knew from the start that I had done nothing wrong. This baseless case was sparked by a coordinated smear campaign from @ColumbiaSJP, and Columbia seized the opportunity to try to silence me. I made it clear that a person’s name and integrity are everything — and I…
— Shai Davidai (@ShaiDavidai) July 10, 2025
More details from the Times of Israel:
Davidai became a prominent and controversial advocate for pro-Israel and Jewish students soon after the October 2023 invasion of Israel, and often clashed with the administration, as the campus was roiled by raucous anti-Israel protests.
Davidai told The Times of Israel that he left Columbia voluntarily.
“I’ve lost all trust in the institution and respect for my colleagues,” Davidai said.
“I feel like it’s a place that is unwilling to change on its own. It’s only doing things when forced by the government or forced by money,” he said. “That’s not a place where I think anyone would want their name to be associated with.”
Davidai deserves credit for lasting as long as he did in the face of such adversity.
Columbia truly seems like a lost cause.
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“OIE closed its investigation relating to you without issuing any findings or conclusions of wrong doing.” This response is, in my view, unacceptably ambiguous. It implies to me that the investigators might still think that there was some wrong doing but that they did not have the goods to prove it. Instead, I would have expected that Columbia provide a positive finding that the professor’s action were reasonable and well within conduct expected of a professor. And if that was indeed the case, I would have also expected a report that some action be taken against the complainant. This is supposed to be a “learning institution” after all. This would be good opportunity for the complainant to learn the consequences of filing a misleading or false complaint – a lesson potentially more valuable than that extracted from any of Columbia’s courses.
Well I wish him luck finding a good and acceptable position but even Israel is infested with progressives so I’m not sure where he could go.
I wish him well in the future but I’m afraid academia isn’t going to be welcoming to him. They are overrun with progressives, racists, bigots, antisemites and terrorism supporters. In a sane world, no one would send their kids to these schools.
This problem is systemic from K all the way up. They are unsalvageable. We need alternatives.
Where I live, the home schoolers are highly organized, even using the Sunday school classrooms in large churches for some in-person classes. They do an incredible job.
CJ: We live in Texas, and although both hubby and I practice medicine (I’m an internist, he’s a pediatrician), we homeschool our children through a coop program we have with our family and neighbors. We have the curriculum down, obviously science-wise, and we have enough other volunteers who are degreed professionals to teach other subjects that we can cover. It’s rewarding and our local school district is very supportive.
he’s doing what he has to do
but this is exactly what lefty wants and needs
leave and they are happy that their troops are succeeding to defeat the academia that once existed but has now fallen prey to the armies of
omar and aoc and the rest of the squad that is growing in numbers
Perhaps. But Columbia’s reputation is irreparably damaged. Really no way to survive their actions of the last year and a half with any dignity or integrity.