A Columbia University professor who has been an outspoken critic of the university’s handling of continuous pro-Palestinian student protests suggested that the university’s administration may be “negotiating” with the protest’s leadership.
Shai Davidai, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School, was seen on Monday in a viral video having a combative exchange with university administrators when he was told his staff ID had been “deactivated,” stopping him from entering campus due to safety concerns.
“I got a tip that the administration is negotiating with the leaders of the pro-terror organization. The same organization whose members called Hamas to kill Jewish students,” Davidai wrote on X, likely referring to the organizers of the protest, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, which have been adamant that its members have been nonviolent. “If this is true, this is huge. Columbia is negotiating with terrorists.”
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Jewish Columbia professor signals university may be ‘negotiating’ with pro-Palestinian protest leaders: ‘This is 1938’
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