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 Ken Cedeno/ReutersSeveral hours after students at Columbia University set up a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" in the middle of campus on Wednesday—demanding "divestment and an end to Columbia's complicity in genocide"—the Ivy League school's president was questioned by a congressional panel in a fiery back-and-forth about antisemitism among the student body.
Members of the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce grilled Minouche Shafik, Columbia Board of Trustees co-chairs Claire Shipman and David Greenwald, and Columbia Law School Dean Emeritus David Schizer, a leader of the school's newly formed Task Force on Antisemitism, during the highly animated session. Jewish students have recently been assaulted and spat on by others at Columbia, and pro-Palestinian students have publicly chanted slogans such as ??"Death to the Zionist state." Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) called for the hearing after accusing Columbia's leadership of not doing enough to tamp down anti-Jewish sentiment.
The assembled administrators turned in a markedly more decisive performance than then-Harvard President Claudine Gay and then-University of
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The Western corporate media is failing in its coverage of Israel's war on Gaza, says Palestinian independent journalist Dalia Hatuqa. "A lot of what's missing from the bigger portrait … is the Palestinian voice," says Hatuqa, who applauds local journalists in Gaza for providing the world a crucial window into what's happening there while international reporters are blocked by Israel from entering the territory. "Nobody knows Gaza better than the Gazan journalists on the ground." Hatuqa also speaks about her latest piece for The Century Foundation about rising Israeli state and settler violence in the occupied West Bank, which she says can accurately be described as pogroms. "The fog of war has allowed Israel to perpetuate crimes at a very large scale, not only throughout the West Bank, but including occupied East Jerusalem."
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