'Republicans want to silence Israel's opponents'

“Gaza Solidarity Encampment” demonstration is held on South Lawn of Columbia University campus with more than 100 students who were demanding that Columbia divest from corporations with ties to Israel

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‘Republicans wanted a crackdown on Israel’s critics. Columbia obliged.’

Michelle Goldberg in The New York Times

“You don’t have to like anti-Israel language or activism to be worried about congressional demands to suppress it,” says Michelle Goldberg. After Republicans on a House panel investigating campus antisemitism grilled Columbia University’s president, Nemat Shafik, about pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activism, the university started “cracking down,” calling in police to arrest dozens at a “Gaza solidarity encampment.” Shafik emerged “largely unscathed” by the GOP’s newfangled McCarthyism. “All that’s been damaged is Columbia’s guarantee of academic freedom.”

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.

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