Sunday saw the fifth consecutive day of protests at Columbia University.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams says he's 'horrified and disgusted' by antisemitism at Columbia University protestsApril 21, 2024, 9:55 PMNew York City Mayor Eric Adams at the 24th Annual Operation 7 Save-A-Life Breakfast, March 22, 2022. , condemning examples of antisemitism and hate speech in a statement Sunday.
Mayor Adams called out specific examples of hate speech, such as, "a young woman holding a sign with an arrow pointing to Jewish students stating 'Al-Qasam's Next Targets, or another where a woman is literally yelling 'We are Hamas,' or another where groups of students are chanting 'We don't want no Zionists here'"
The protests, which began on April 17, followed Columbia University president Minouche Shafik's testimony to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce about antisemitism on college campuses.New York Rep. Elise Stefanik called for Shafik's resignation on Sunday, saying Columbia University "failed to enforce their own campus rules and protect Jewish students on campus," in a post on X, formally known as Twitter.
For the fifth day, pro-Palestinian students occupy a central lawn on the Columbia University campus, on April 21, 2024 in New York City. In his statement Sunday, Adams acknowledged how the ongoing conflict in the Middle East "has left many of us grieving and angry."
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