Columbia University bars pro-Israel professor from campus for 'threatening behavior'

Columbia University adjunct prof of concern and pro-Israel advocator Shai Davidai was barred from field Tuesday.

In a connection to Fox News Digital, the assemblage confirmed Davidai was suspended, saying helium had "repeatedly harassed and intimidated" assemblage employees.

The connection said Davidai’s restrictions were a "direct effect of Assistant Professor Davidai’s behaviour connected October 7, 2024," though it did not elaborate connected the incidental successful question. 

Davidai blasted the decision, claiming it was successful retaliation for "expos[ing]" assemblage employees connected video astatine Oct. 7 day protests connected campus.

Business Assistant Professor Shai Davidai has often criticized assemblage enactment implicit their effect to anti-Israel demonstrations. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

"[T]he University has decided to not let maine to beryllium connected field anymore. My job. Why? Because of Oct. 7. Because I was not acrophobic to basal up to the hateful mob," Davidai said, according to the Columbia Daily Spectator. He recorded himself confronting administrators. 

"Columbia has consistently and continually respected Assistant Professor Davidai's close to escaped code and to explicit his views. His state of code has not been constricted and is not being constricted now. Columbia, however, does not tolerate threats of intimidation, harassment, oregon different threatening behaviour by its employees," University spokesperson Samantha Slater said.

She continued, "Because Assistant Professor Davidai repeatedly harassed and intimidated University employees successful usurpation of University policy, we person temporarily constricted his entree to field portion helium undertakes due grooming connected our policies governing the behaviour of our employees." 

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Slater added Davidai is presently not teaching this semester and is lone barred from entree to the campus. He has not been suspended from his position, and helium volition inactive person his compensation arsenic a module member. Davidai tin instrumentality to field aft completing grooming connected assemblage policies.

"Education, training, entree restrictions and different measures are disposable and utilized by the University erstwhile module and different employees interruption University policy. As successful different cases, our anticipation is that Assistant Professor Davidai volition successfully implicit the grooming and promptly instrumentality to campus," Slater said.

Davidai reported connected this suspension from his X relationship Tuesday. (Courtesy of Shai Davidai)

"I’m the lone prof who’s been suspended," helium told The Spectator. "Think astir each the professors, everything that they’ve done. You know, radical that person said and posted horrible things, and yet I’m the lone 1 suspended."

"It’s nary longer a treble standard," Davidai added. "There’s fundamentally nary modular for erstwhile it comes to Jewish beingness connected campus.

Davidai besides wrote connected X aft learning the news, "I don't attraction astir my future. It's ne'er been astir me. I attraction astir @Columbia's future. I attraction astir what this acceptance of anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American coercion means for the students connected campus. Please retweet this truthful radical volition know."

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Fox News Digital reached retired to Davidai for comment.

Columbia University besides reportedly deactivated Davidai's keycard successful April. (Fox News Digital)

This was not the archetypal clip Davidai has reportedly been restricted connected campus. In April, helium said his keycard to the school’s main field was deactivated aft readying a pro-Israel objection against anti-Israel protesters.

"I have, not conscionable a civilian right, a civilian close arsenic a Jewish idiosyncratic to beryllium connected campus. I person a close arsenic a prof employed by the assemblage to beryllium connected campus. They deactivated my card," Davidai told demonstrators successful a video astatine the time.

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