Where is Shafik? Columbia University president keeps low profile, fights to keep job amid campus antisemitism

Anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University kicked off a national wave of copycats as outside agitators join students on major U.S. college campuses.

Although university leaders repeatedly pushed back the "deadline" for the agitators to disperse, Shafik finally asked the New York City Police Department (NYPD) to clear a group of them out this week after a mob smashed its way into the Hamilton Hall building on campus and barricaded the doors and windows, confronting maintenance workers and waiving a Palestinian flag from the roof. "For decades, but particularly in the past several years, university administrators have watched campuses become more and more radicalized and racialized."

"President Shafik is reaping what she and other senior administrators have sown," said William A. Jacobson, Cornell University law professor and founder of the Equal Protection Project. "For decades, but particularly in the past several years, university administrators have watched campuses become more and more radicalized and racialized."