Associate Professor Slams Columbia, Barnard leadership as anti-Israel agitators cause chaos

Anti-Israel protests broke out at Barnard College last week, and Columbia Associate Professor Shai Davidai calls up students and faculty members.

“These protests we saw two days ago, the violent takeover of a hall in Barnard, is one of the same protests that started on October 12, 2023,” Davidai told Fox News Digital. “Hate does not disappear alone. Extremism does not disappear by itself. If they don’t deal with it, it stays nearby.”

The recent protests were a reaction to the expulsion of two students who allegedly entered a classroom of Columbia University in January and threw flyers with hated and anti -Semitic rhetoric.

Anti-Israel demonstrators demonstrated on Barnard College in February 2025. (Getty; X)

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The professor, who taught the course, said Avi Shilon of the times of Israel that he had invited the demonstrators to join the class, but they leaned and continued to scream.

According to the expulsion of the Barnard students, more than 50 anti-Israel agitators took over a building on Barnard’s campus and repeated the takeover of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University last year.

In conversation with Fox News Digital, Davidai claimed that the protests took place physically in Barnard, but were organized by a organization sanctioned and financed by Columbia. However, Columbia University denies this claim and says that the group has not been reduced with the university ration.

“This is the episode of 20 years of indoctrination,” Davidai told Fox News Digital. “We have indoctrinated students and they are not the problem. The problem was always the professors who have indoctrinating.”

However, Davidai said that he had heard of Jewish and non -Jewish students alike that they were fed up with the protests.

“You don’t see an accountability and you are only full,” said Davidai. “I received emails from parents who said: ‘What do we pay for $ 90,000? It doesn’t make sense.”

Anti-Israel-Protestemen will demonstrate on February 27, 2025 outside of Barnard College in New York. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

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Davidai says he tried to deal with other faculties on the topics, but in one case one student intervened the other faculty member from the conversation. He says there are “radical students” who tell the faculty, “what to do and what to say”.

In addition to the faculty, Davidai sees a problem with the leadership of Columbia. He says that the former President of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, “didn’t know what she was in” and “was a coward”. He sets interim president Katrina Armstrong, which he says, “incompetent” more difficult.

Davidai does not believe that all hope is lost for Columbia and believes that the university gives a way to turn things around.

“They throw out the indoctrinaters and openly support the professors (the) of Hamas and other American terrorist organizations.

An anti-Israel demonstrator holds a flag on the roof of the Hamilton Hall from Columbia University in New York on April 30, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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The Barnard College did not immediately answer the inquiries from Fox News Digital for comments.

Barnard College and Columbia University have a story. In the beginning, Columbia was a purely male university, and Barnard, a purely female school, became part of the Columbia system in 1900. The two still share academic resources, and both institutions have classes that are available to Columbia and Barnard students.

On February 26, Columbia tweeted an explanation that “the disorder of academic activities is not an acceptable behavior”.

Immediately after the classes were interrupted in January, Interim President Armstrong condemned the incident in a statement and said that the agitators’ actions violate the university’s rules. In addition, Columbia used a suspected participant with connections to the university and initiated an investigation.

The President of Barnard, Laura Ann Rosenbury, published on Monday in the chronicle of university education entitled “If the protest goes too far.”

“This disorder was not designed in such a way that thinking or civil discourse is progressing. Instead, it was a calculated act of intimidation in which the interferers mocked and loudly distributed over the professor, distributed anti -Semitic flyers and refused to join the discussion, even if the professor invited them to sit in the class cheaply,” writes Rosenbury. She continued that the actions of the demonstrators were “completely contradicting our mission”.