The New McCarthyism: Congress Grills Columbia Univ. President Amid Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Protesters

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AMY GOODMAN

In a non-existent democracy, cowardly, careerist university administrators are bullied by scumbag politicians shamelessly running interference for the Zionist lobby. It doesn't get more despicable than this, but that is the will of the billionaires in the oligarchic US empire.

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In nearly four hours of grueling congressional testimony before the Republican-led Committee on Education and the Workforce, the president of Columbia University, Nemat "Minouche" Shafik, said she had taken serious action against accusations of antisemitism on campus in recent months amid Israel's assault on Gaza, including dismissing or removing five faculty members from the classroom, suspending 15 students and suspending two student groups — Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. Shafik's visit to Capitol Hill is the latest in a series of hearings on alleged antisemitism at elite U.S. private schools. In December, similar hearings led to the resignations of the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Our guests Nara Milanich and Rebecca Jordan-Young, both professors at Barnard College and Columbia University, respond to the televised hearings. "What happened at those hearings yesterday should be of grave concern to everybody," warns Jordan-Young. "What we got was a live performance [of President Shafik] throwing the entire university system under the bus." Adds Milanich, "Antisemitism here is being used as a wedge. It's being used as a Trojan horse for a very different political agenda."

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NOTE: Minouche Shafik has all the earmarks of an "Egyptian gusano". Obviously, she has made a very good career as a privileged operator facilitating and thriving in the imperialist West. Just consider this glowing excerpt from the Wikipedia:

Shafik squirming under her inquisitors' impertinent (and unconstitutional) questions. Nemat Talaat Shafik, Baroness Shafik, DBE, HonFBA (born 13 August 1962) commonly known as Minouche Shafik (Arabic: نعمت شفيق) is an Egyptian-born American economist who has been serving as the 20th president of Columbia University since July 2023. She previously served as president and vice chancellor of the London School of Economics from 2017 to 2023. She also serves on the board of directors of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously, Shafik served as deputy governor of the Bank of England from 2014 to 2017 and permanent secretary of the United Kingdom Department for International Development from 2008 to 2011.[2] She has also served as a vice president at the World Bank[3] and as deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.[4] Shafik was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to parents who were both educators.[5] Her father was also a scientist and wealthy landowner.[6][7] As a child, she went to Schutz American School. When she was 4, the Egyptian government seized her father's property[8] and the family moved to Savannah, Georgia in the mid-1960s, then to Miami and Raleigh, North Carolina.[9] Shafik graduated Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, with a major in economics and politics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983; she gained a Master of Science degree in economics from the London School of Economics in 1986; and a Doctorate of Philosophy in economics from the University of Oxford, in 1989.[10] Career After Oxford, Shafik joined the World Bank and held a variety of roles, starting in the research department where she worked on global economic modelling and forecasting and then later on environmental issues. She moved to do macroeconomic work on Europe and the Middle East where she published a number of books and articles on the region's economic future, the economics of peace, labour markets, regional integration, and gender issues.[11] At age 36, Shafik became the World Bank's youngest-ever Vice President.[12][13] Get the picture?

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