University administrators turned a blind eye to the new protest camp — days after calling the NYPD to break up a previous protest and haul away the protesters.
Protesters on and around campus have been filmed making actively pro-Hamas and antisemitic statements — including one alleged student who held a sign suggesting pro-Israel demonstrators should be the next target of Hamas terrorists.
A Jewish Columbia student filed an NYPD hate crime report Monday saying that he was accosted and hit in the head with rocks by pro-Palestinian protesters on campus after he arrived with Israeli flags on Saturday night.
On Monday, many of the demonstrators who arrived at campus with Davidai to show solidarity with Columbia’s Jewish community were also turned away at the gates of the Ivy Leave school — though some with active Columbia IDs were allowed in.
Just a day after House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik demanded Shafik retire, the rest of New York’s Republican delegation signed a letter calling on the embattled school president to step down.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has slammed the situation at the university following a meeting with Shafik, city hall and the NYPD.
“The recent harassment and rhetoric is vile and abhorrent,” Hochul said in a statement on X. “Every student deserves to be safe.”
Davidai’s rejection from the campus of his own university prompted a crowd of pro-Israel protesters to shout, “Let him in!” and “Shame!”
“I have not just a civil right, a civil right as a Jewish person to be on campus, I have a right as a professor employed by the university to be on campus,” Davidai said. “They deactivated my card.”
“They are not letting me on main campus,” he told a crowd of pro-Israel rallies at the school’s gate.
Davidai noted the “irony” that his card still grants him access to the university’s Manhattanville campus farther uptown on West 130th Street, where he teaches at the business school.