Columbia head threatens to remove anti-Israel encampment as protests roil universities

Columbia University President Nemat Shafik called Tuesday for an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters set up at the school’s upper Manhattan campus to be removed, setting a midnight Tuesday deadline for student organizers and representatives of the Ivy League school to reach an agreement on ending the protest. The move by Shafik came as she has become entangled in a bruising battle between activists angered by Israel’s war on the Hamas terror group in Gaza and Jewish students and faculty who say the demonstrations include antisemitic harassment and calls for violence...