New Columbia University president dismissed House antisemitism hearing as 'nonsense'

Columbia University’s caller acting president dismissed the legislature hearings connected field antisemitism arsenic "nonsense" successful a 2023 substance message.

Claire Shipman, co-chair of the university’s committee of trustees, was appointed arsenic the acting assemblage president connected Friday.

Shipman derided legislature oversight efforts connected antisemitism arsenic "capital [sic] elevation nonsense" successful a substance connection to Columbia’s then-President Minouche Shafik portion referring to a New York Times nonfiction that claimed the assemblage navigated tensions implicit the Israel-Hamas warfare much skillfully than different universities. 

"[M]ost critically I deliberation it heavy inoculates america for a portion from the superior [sic] elevation nonsense and threat," Shipman wrote successful the message, which was revealed successful a 325-page study from the Republican House Committee connected Education and the Workforce in October.

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Claire Shipman, co-chair of Columbia University's Board of Trustees, testifies during the House Education and the Workforce Committee proceeding titled "Columbia successful Crisis: Columbia University's Response to Antisemitism" connected Wednesday, April 17, 2024.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Shipman wrote successful different connection that she was seeking to "unsuspend the groups" who the study said had violated assemblage rules portion engaging successful antisemitic and pro-Hamas conduct.

Shipman testified earlier Congress successful April 2024 during the hearings connected field antisemitism. In her connection astatine the time, she called antisemitism "dangerous and reprehensible" and said that it "has nary spot astatine Columbia, oregon successful our society."

A University spokesperson told Fox News Digital successful an emailed connection that the assemblage is concentrating connected creating a harmless situation for students.

"We are focused connected doing what is close and honoring our commitments to make a Columbia assemblage wherever students are harmless and capable to flourish," the spokesperson said. "This volition unafraid Columbia’s future."

Columbia was astatine the bosom of 2024's anti-Israel field protests, with NYPD officers yet breaking up a barricade astatine Hamilton Hall successful a highly publicized raid.

Shipman, who has been connected the Columbia University committee since 2013, is replacing interim schoolhouse president Katrina Armstrong until the committee completes its statesmanlike search. 

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Armstrong stepped successful aft Shafik resigned successful August amid claims of institutional antisemitism. Armstrong aboriginal stepped down amidst a clash with the Trump medication implicit $400 cardinal successful national funding. 

Shipman antecedently worked arsenic a CNN White House reporter, a White House analogous for NBC News and a elder nationalist analogous for ABC’s "Good Morning America."

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Shipman was joined to Jay Carney, who served arsenic the White House property caput nether erstwhile President Barack Obama.

Fox News' Jasmine Baehr, Alexis McAdams, Louis Casiano, Alexis McAdams and Yael Halon contributed to this report.