Columbia University president Minouche Shafik’s abrupt resignation on Wednesday came in the wake of her months-long struggle to respond adequately to the protests, disorder, and anti-Semitic displays that engulfed the Ivy League campus in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Classes were moved online. The school’s main graduation ceremony was canceled. Alumni
A professional left-wing activist and trust fund heir who joined Columbia University students in storming and occupying a university building last April also has an active law license in New York, records show. He’s set to keep it, too, even if he’s convicted on the charge he’s facing, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. James
Since she was handed the Democratic nomination for president late last month, Vice President Kamala Harris has struggled to comprehensively answer a relatively simple question: If elected, what will her administration do? Although Harris has not been completely silent on issues of policy, her campaign still lacks a comprehensive platform, with no issues section appearing
Morgan Overton is a Pennsylvania delegate for Kamala Harris at next week’s Democratic National Convention, a member of Democratic governor Josh Shapiro’s advisory council for women, and a Planned Parenthood Western Pennsylvania board member. She’s also a quiet supporter of a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) ballot initiative that would cripple the city’s Jewish organizations
Former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday called Vice President Kamala Harris an “empty suit,” accusing the Democratic nominee of saying whatever is needed to win over voters without following through with action. “Kamala Harris is an empty suit,” Gabbard said on Fox News. “Her campaign handlers are worried. … They are trying to create
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has avoided interviews since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee, sat down with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in a video released Thursday to talk about tacos. “I have white guy tacos,” Walz said to Harris in the campaign video entitled “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz on tacos, music,
‘So you guys respect them, you shit?’ Gaza-born reporter Abeer Ayyoub wrote in reply to Israeli researcher Abeer Ayyoub (reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk), Wall Street Journal (Guntmar Fritz/Grabien) Wall Street Journal contributor Abeer Ayyoub has spread “terrorist propaganda” and “antisemitic slurs” on social media networks, including expletives directed at Israelis, according to a media watchdog group. Ayyoub, a