Columbia University Prez Wanted To Replace Jewish Board Member With Arab, Agreed Jew Was A ‘Mole’

In January 2024, Claire Shipman, who served as the chair of Columbia University’s board of trustees before she became the acting president of Columbia University, minimized the open antisemitism at the university, tried to keep a pro-Israel member of the board unaware of the school’s negotiations with anti-Israel demonstrators, and tried to remove that member of the board and replace her with an Arab one. “We need to get somebody from the middle east [sic] or who is Arab on our board,” Shipman wrote on January 17, 2024, as The...