NEW YORK POST
Leaked email sees Columbia University president grovel over suggested nixing of Jewish board member: ‘Moment of immense pressure’
Ricki Schlott
July 2, 2025

Columbia University’s president issued a groveling apology, saying she regrets a text suggesting removal of a Jewish board member and a separate one urging the school to get an “Arab” board member “quickly.” A House investigation dug up the texts sent by acting president Claire Shipman in January 2024 amidst anti-Israel campus protests where she advocated removing Shoshana Shendelman from the board of trustees. Shendelman was one of the most vocal members against harassment of Jewish students, but in the private texts Shipman agreed with a text saying she could be a “mole,” called her “extraordinarily unhelpful,” and suggested they “get somebody from the middle east,” according to the Committee on Education and Workforce’s report. READ MORE