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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik is facing mounting calls to resign as anti-Israel protests at the Manhattan campus continue to swell with some 200 demonstrators gathering on Monday .

New York’s Republican delegation, along with the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, have each penned letters calling on the embattled president to step down over her handling of the protests where antisemitic and pro-Hamas chants on campus have made headlines in recent days with little to no opposition from the university.

“It is time for Columbia University to turn the page on this shameful chapter. This can only be done through the restoration of order and your prompt resignation,” House Republican conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik and the nine other Republican representatives from the Empire State wrote in a letter exclusively obtained by The Post on Monday .

The CJJA echoed the Republicans’ sentiment, claiming the protests have made the university “the center of worldwide hatred and bigotry” as other schools, including NYU and The New School, have started similar demonstrations in solidarity with Columbia.

“President Shafik’s silence has been deafening. Appeasing antisemitism never works,” the alumni group wrote in a scathing statement Monday.

“It is well past time to have asked the NYPD to clear campus and enforce university rules. President Shafik must immediately resign,” the CJJA added.

Hours later, the CJJA walked back their initial statement, saying, “President Shafik must call the NYPD back in, and take immediate and decisive action that dramatically changes the facts on the ground: or resign.”

Local Democrats also called on the university to crack down on the protests, but stopped short of demanding Shafik to resign.

“Both elected representatives and members of the administration’s of academic institutions need to combat what is this dramatic rise of antisemitism and a feeling of insecurity from Jews on campus,” US Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) said.

Follow The Post’s coverage of the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University:

• Pro-terror radical launched 2-hour anti-Israel tirade at Columbia University event weeks before protests exploded: ‘Nothing wrong with being a Hamas fighter’
• Anti-Israel protesters urge others to break into ‘platoons’ as Columbia University extends deadline for them to leave
• House Speaker Mike Johnson demands ‘very weak, inept’ Columbia prez Minouche Shafik resign ahead of campus visit
• Rep. Elise Stefanik demands federal funds for Columbia University be revoked in wake of anti-Israel protests

Fellow Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), echoed Goldman and said it is now up to the university to prove itself by quelling the demonstration and standing by its Jewish students and staff. 

“I think the pressure is on for the university president to step up and act. I think there has to be accountability,” Gottheimer said. “We’ve seen good steps forward, but the bottom line is we’re gonna be watching every single day.” 

Antisemitism controversy at Columbia University: Key events

• Columbia University president Minouche Shafik  was accused of “gross negligence” while testifying before Congress. Shafik refused to say if the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is antisemitic.
• More than 100 Columbia professors signed a letter defending students who support the “military action” by Hamas.
• Antisemitic posters depicting Israel as a skunk appeared on campus — which experts liken to a propaganda poster used by the Nazis in World War II.
• Radical anti-Israel activists Charlotte Kates and Khaled Barakat told Columbia students a two-hour tirade , “There is nothing wrong with being a fighter in Hamas” in a seminar called “Resistance 101″ — weeks before the campus exploded in pro-Palestinian protests.
• Columbia students erected 60 tents on campus to demand that the university divest from Israel.
• More than 100 other protesters were arrested after Shafik announced the campus’s closure.
• Israel-born professor Shai Davidai was barred from campus after he attempted to lead a pro-Jewish rally.
• Every New York House GOP lawmaker demanded that Shafik resign immediately .
• Columbia University’s Jewish Alumni Association also called for Shafik’s resignation .

Shafik, who defended her school’s handling of antisemitism before lawmakers last week, canceled in-person classes on campus Monday, telling students in an email that they “need a reset” as the heated demonstrations entered a sixth day.

“I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus. Our bonds as a community have been severely tested in ways that will take a great deal of time and effort to reaffirm,” Shafik wrote ahead of the start of Passover Monday evening.

“Students across an array of communities have conveyed fears for their safety and we have announced additional actions we are taking to address security concerns.”

Along with pressure from politicians, including President Biden and Mayor Eric Adams, the university is facing financial fallout — New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft announced h e was yanking his support from Columbia, saying it was “no longer an institution I recognize.”

“I am deeply saddened at the virulent hate that continues to grow on campus and throughout our country,” he said in a statement. “I am no longer confident that Columbia can protect its students and staff and I am not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action is taken.”

Kraft, who is worth $11.1 billion, has been a prolific donor to the university and funded the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life across from Columbia’s campus with a $11.5 million donation in 2000.

The billionaire then donated another $1.5 million in 2005, with a follow up donation of 5 million in support of Columbia’s athletics program.

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Despite the pressure, the university has been accused of rolling over to the protesters after forcing classes to go remote on Monday ahead of the Passover holiday.

Columbia professor Shai Davidai — a vocal critic of the administration’s response to the protests — was banned from campus Monday, saying administrators told him they “can not ensure your safety.”

“I teach at the business campus,” railed Davidai, who held a pro-Jewish rally outside the gates of Columbia earlier in the morning. “They want me to do my job and keep all my responsibilities but none of my rights.” 

Meanwhile, a massive new tent city at the Morningside Heights campus popped up with some 200 protesters, all of whom would have had to use their Columbia IDs to get in. 

A sign over the tents read, “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” with students showing no indication that they’d be leaving anytime soon. 

“I’ve been camping here for several days,” Kahymani James, a political science major, told The Post. 

James said the students are demanding “financial divestment, financial transparency, [and] amnesty for all students who have faced disciplinary sanctions in an academic boycott.” 

The students were also joined by some faculty members, 54 of whom wrote a letter to university opposing a decision to suspend student protesters and authorizing a raid by the NYPD.

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, said it was “unacceptable” that the demonstrators were allowed to disrupt classes at the Ivy League school.

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“We should take the word ‘elite’ out of colleges that tolerate these attacks on Jews,” said Potasnik, who visited Columbia on Sunday.  

“It’s capitulation to the hate mongers, to those who shout antisemitic statements at us,” he added. “How is it that pro-Hamas demonstrators can get on campus but an Israeli professor who teaches at Columbia can’t?”

The rabbi also called on the college to serve “severe consequences” over the hateful protest. 

It remains to be seen who will be punished by the university after days of vitriol and antisemitism on campus during the protest. More than 100 protesters were cuffed last week — including far lefty Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi — after Shafik called in the NYPD to crack down.

The NYPD on Monday stressed that its hands were tied because Columbia sits on private property.

“Absent from ongoing crime, we cannot just go onto Columbia’s campus as we see fit,” Mike Gerber, deputy commissioner of legal matters, told reporters. “It is up to the university to decide whether or not they want us on campus. As a general matter, and this goes back many years, Columbia does not want NYPD on campus.” 

A Jewish Columbia student filed an NYPD hate crime report Monday saying that he was accosted and hit in the head with rocks by pro-Palestinian protesters on campus after he arrived with Israeli flags on Saturday night.

That same night, pro-Israeli demonstrators were also accosted by the protesters who shouted, “Go back to Poland!” and “Go back to Belarus!”

Another viral video of the protest going around the Manhattan campus shows a woman waving a Palestinian flag as she shouts, “Go Hamas! … Long live Hamas and the rebellion.”

Mayor Adams, who condemned the protest, said any crimes or antisemitic incidents happening in and around the campus will be investigated.

“I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus — like the example of 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’ — and I condemn this hate speech in the strongest of terms,” Adams said in a statement.  

“Supporting a terrorist organization that aims to kill Jews is sickening and despicable,” he added.

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Columbia rabbi tells Jewish students to leave campus, warns that school, NYPD 'cannot guarantee your safety'

T he Orthodox rabbi at Columbia University and Barnard College sent a message recommending Jewish students leave campus and go home, as anti-Israel agitators have continued an "encampment" on campus and participants were caught on camera espousing full-on support for terrorism and supporting violence towards Jewish students.

In a WhatsApp message sent to hundreds before the start of Passover, Rabbi Elie Buechler, director of OU-LJIC at Columbia/Barnard, told students to leave "as soon as possible" until the situation improves, noting that "what we are witnessing in and around campus is terrible and tragic."

"The events of the last few days, especially last night, have made it clear that Columbia University’s Public Safety and the NYPD cannot guarantee Jewish students’ safety in the face of extreme antisemitism and anarchy," Buechler wrote. "It deeply pains me to say that I would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved." 

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The rabbi added: "It is not our job as Jews to ensure our own safety on campus. No one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school." 

House GOP Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Sunday demanded Columbia University President Dr. Nemat "Minouche" Shafik to "immediately resign" given how Columbia’s leadership "has clearly lost control of its campus" within the last 24 hours, "putting Jewish students’ safety at risk." 

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Stefanik asserted that Columbia leadership’s hours of preparation for their testimony before the House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing last week "clearly was an attempt to cover up for their abject failure to enforce their own campus rules and protect Jewish students on campus." 

Despite Shafik allowing the New York Police Department onto campus the day after her testimony before Congress, where lawmakers grilled her about the lack of consequences for antisemitism at the Ivy League school, the more than 100 people arrested and suspended from the university on Thursday have since been released from custody. 

The anti-Israel encampment on the locked campus has remained as police officers look on from across the gates. 

Video circulating online appear to pass the threshold of simply supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement or human rights pleas for Palestinians in Gaza, as speakers described the Columbia encampment as a "training ground" for "fighters" and have praised the Oct. 7 attacks, when Hamas militants slaughtered nearly 1,200 Jews and took over 240 hostages.

Beyond "Free, Free Palestine," demonstrators’ chants have included "Al-Qassam you make us proud, kill another soldier now!", "We say justice, you say how. Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!", and, "Hamas we love you. We support your rockets too!"

One anti-Israel agitator was seen holding a sign reading, "Al-Qasam’s next targets," pointing toward a group of Jewish students who were singing while waving the Israeli flag. The Al-Qassam Brigade is the military wing of Hamas. 

Another video showed demonstrators shout at Jewish students leaving campus, "Go back to Europe," and, "All you do is colonize." 

Ben Shapiro, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" podcast and a frequent speaker on campuses around the country, decried how universities "have spent literally years telling conservatives on campus to shut up – that they might ‘microaggress’ sensibilities of far-Left students by saying that boys can’t be girls and the like." 

"They’ve spent those same years coddling radical Leftists who actively undermine the actual functioning of the universities. Columbia’s latest protests weren’t designed to be peaceful. They were designed to intimidate and harass," Shapiro said. He described how the latest protests featured pro-Hamas activists cheering Oct. 7, pledging a new Oct. 7 "every day," and screaming, "We’re all Hamas." 

"Columbia has no obligation to coddle terror supporters who harass students and obstruct the functioning of the university," Shapiro said. "Columbia spent months doing so after October 7: there’s already a lawsuit alleging that ‘Jewish and Israeli students have been physically assaulted, spat at, threatened and subjected to relentless intimidation and vilification.’" 

Shai Davidai, a Jewish professor at Columbia who went viral in October calling out the school’s inaction on antisemitism, demanded that the National Guard be brought in if the NYPD cannot take action. 

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"[Shafik] needs to open the gates of the university. And NYPD needs to come in and disperse the crowd and arrest everyone who refuses. And keep them in jail. And if the NYPD cannot do this, then we need the National Guard," Davidai told Fox News Digital. "With all the fraught history the National Guard has had on U.S. campuses. If Columbia can't keep the Jewish students safe. And if the police continue to keep the Jewish students safe, then the National Guard must. Because this is a civil rights issue. This is not about the war in Israel. This is a Jewish civil rights issue." 

"This is a hostile takeover of the university," he added. "It's a showdown of support for Hamas on one hand and Western civilization on the other hand…. The showdown is happening on Columbia's campus."

At the congressional hearing Wednesday, House Republicans grilled Shafik on what consequences Columbia professors Joseph Massad, Katherine Franke and Mohamed Abdou faced for celebrating Oct. 7. The university president vowed Abdou would never work at Columbia again but gave unclear testimony on whether Massad was reprimanded by his dean about his comments or was removed as the chair of a committee.

"Professor Joseph Massad described Hamas’ October 7 terror attack on Israel as a ‘resistance offensive’ designed to fight ‘racism toward the Palestinians,’" Shapiro told Fox News Digital. "Professor Katherine Franke said ‘all Israeli students who served in the I.D.F. are dangerous and shouldn’t be on campus.’ Professor Mohamed Abdou posted on social media on October 11, ‘I’m with Hamas & Hezbollah & Islamic Jihad.’ It’s too bad that Columbia decided to bend over backwards to accommodate its pro-Hamas radicals until now." 

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Davidai claimed that the demonstrations at Columbia "have never been about human rights."

"From the very first moment, these protests were about justifying rape as a means to a goal," he said, referencing the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack. "That is not about human rights."

Original article source: Columbia rabbi tells Jewish students to leave campus, warns that school, NYPD 'cannot guarantee your safety'