Goldberg: Republicans wanted crackdown on Israel’s critics. Columbia obliged

Goldberg: Republicans wanted crackdown on Israel’s critics. Columbia obliged

Columbia University’s exceptionally poised president, Nemat Shafik, clearly has no intention of going down like the former heads of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, both driven from their jobs following disastrous appearances before a congressional committee investigating campus antisemitism. Testifying before the same panel last week, she readily agreed with Republicans’ premise that pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia is…