Posted on 07/03/2025 2:39:26 PM PDT by CFW
Claire Shipman, the acting president of Columbia University, issued a private apology this week after leaked messages revealed she suggested removing a Jewish trustee over her pro-Israel advocacy, sparking a firestorm amid ongoing federal scrutiny of the university’s handling of antisemitism on campus.
“The things I said in a moment of frustration and stress were wrong. They do not reflect how I feel,” Shipman wrote Wednesday in an email obtained by Jewish Insider, which she sent to “trusted groups of friends and colleagues.”
The messages, sent in 2023 and 2024 while Shipman was co-chair of Columbia’s Board of Trustees, were uncovered by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce as part of its investigation into possible Title VI violations under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The committee is probing whether Columbia has failed to protect Jewish students from harassment and discrimination.
In one January 2024 message to the board’s vice chair, Shipman wrote, “We need to get somebody from the middle east [sic] or who is Arab on our board.” She went on to single out Jewish trustee Shoshana Shendelman—who has been a vocal critic of antisemitism on campus—as “extraordinarily unhelpful,” later stating, “I just don’t think she should be on the board.”
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I hope enough parents and students see what is going on at these universities so that they all close down due to lack of funding and student interest.
Claire Shipman? Why does that name sound familiar?🤔
“...Claire Shipman? Why does that name sound familiar...?”
Well, there was that British serial killer doctor Harold Shipman a few years back...
She needs to resign.
Conduct grossly unbecoming of a university leader.
“I’m sorry I got caught.”
That fits the definition of a “fire able” offense.
been around forever. CNN,ABC. married to Jay Carney.
I’m clueless.
Okay. That sounds right. Used to be a “reporter”?
Yep.
Claire Shipman is the current acting president of Columbia University, a position she assumed in March 2025. Prior to this, she was a senior national correspondent for ABC News’ Good Morning America. She also has a background in journalism, having worked for CNN and NBC News. Before becoming acting president, she was co-chair of Columbia’s Board of Trustees. Shipman is married to Jay Carney, who served as President Barack Obama’s press secretary from 2011 to 2014.
Probable first draft: “
I am truly and sincerely filled with sorrow and regret that I got caught. I am usually operating at a higher level of deceit. Now it boomeranged and a Jewish person hasn’t been replaced by an Islamic extremist. I am sorry.”
Aide: “Let’s work together on a little rewording.”
The messages, sent in 2023 and 2024 while Shipman was co-chair of Columbia’s Board of Trustees, were uncovered by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce as part of its investigation into possible Title VI violations under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
many small things win wars..........................
Liar, liar, set her on fire! Fire the B!
Colombia’s private they can be as stupid as the market will bear!
Apologize this...🖕. She should be tossed.
BS. You’re a freaking NAZI.
That's exactly when what you says reflects what you feel. Why do you think every good qualification process - SEALS, Ranger School, Navy submarines/nuke power school puts you through maximum stress - to find out exactly what you are made of. You flunked.
Note that she didn’t resign.
I am a Christian and a graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Business many years ago. One thing that is near unbelievable is that then and now Columbia has had a large percentage of Jewish students. Yet somehow in the past 15 or so years, the university has been hiring a significant number of Middle Eastern Muslim instructors and professors. Over that time these teachers have worked hard to infiltrate all aspects with their pro Muslim, antisemitic beliefs. Then, the university hires an Egyptian woman, presumably Muslim, as president of the university a couple of years ago. What happened is exactly what they should have anticipated happening. She was completely ineffective in preventing the anti-Israel riots on campus to the point that she resigned nearly a year ago. Now, the school has Clair Shipman, a former left leaning TV news reader as interim president. Well, based upon her antisemitic correspondence we know where she stands. She simply is one more gutless wonder who is either incapable or unwilling to bring Columbia back to being the kind of university that it used to be. It is time for Shipman to follow her predecessor out the door.
I seem to recall examples where people have been held responsible and cancelled for comments written decades earlier as teenagers.
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