'Best Strategy Is To Keep Heads Down': Schumer Advised Columbia's Leaders To Ignore Anti-Semitism...

Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) quietly advised Columbia University’s leaders to “keep heads down” and ignore congressional criticism of the school’s handling of campus anti-Semitism, telling former university president Minouche Shafik that the school’s “political problems are really only among Republicans,” according to a new House Committee on Education and the Workforce report. The committee’s 300-page report stems from more than a year of interviews and over 400,000 pages of internal documents produced by elite schools like Columbia, Harvard University, Yale University, Northwestern University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. It demonstrates, by producing the private emails and text messages of university leaders, how they failed to protect Jewish students as anti-Semitic mobs seized their campuses in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror spree. It also reveals that Schumer advised Shafik to tune out the criticism she was receiving from House Republicans