Columbia President Resigns After Violent Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Student Protests

The president of Columbia University announced her resignation late Wednesday, months after she authorized a violent police crackdown on student demonstrators urging the school to divest from Israel over the country’s devastating assault on the Gaza Strip. Minouche Shafik said in her announcement that recent months have been “a period of turmoil where it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our [...]