By Steve Sailer
12/29/2023
From The New York Times news section:
How Columbia’s President Has Avoided Fallout Over Israel-Gaza Protests
Protests over the Israel-Hamas war roiled Columbia’s campus for weeks. Then, the campus and its president receded from attention — for now.
By Sharon Otterman
Dec. 28, 2023
Columbia University’s Egyptian-born and partially American-raised Muslim president, Baroness Nemat Shafik, is a member of the British House of Lords.
She is what you might call a Transnational Globalist Elite.
When Congress invited her to a congressional hearing on antisemitism on Dec. 5 with her peers from Harvard, Penn and M.I.T., Dr. Shafik said she could not go. She told representatives that she had already planned to attend the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, where she introduced a panel about women leaders.
Apparently, one of the lessons they teach you at Transnational Globalist Elite School is that when you sense that politicians are readying a trap to spring on you, like the Congressional hearing on anti-Semitism in the Ivy League, you should just plead a previous engagement — I have to introduce a very important panel of Women Leaders in Dubai, and you wouldn’t want to disrespect Women Leaders, now would you? — and don’t show up.
Another lesson they apparently teach at TGES, apparently, is that if you get appointed president of the Ivy League school in the city with the world’s largest number of Jewish billionaires, don’t get them mad at you. Even if somewhere deep down inside, you feel sorry for your fellow Muslims in Gaza getting blasted by the IDF, not enraging your Jewish billionaire donors has to be your Job Number One.
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