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Columbia Prof Who Called to Defund the Police, Now Wants Police to Protect Him from Anti-Israel Protests
Townhall ^ | 04/24/2024 | Sarah Arnold

Posted on 04/24/2024 8:57:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The same Columbia University professor who advocated defunding the police is the same professor who is now pleading for law enforcement to protect him from the anti-Israel protestors invading the university’s campus.

Columbia Business School assistant professor Shai Davidai was a staunch anti-police advocate in the past, accusing law enforcement of using their weapons “disproportionately on black men.”

“Lawmakers give police offers the ammunition which they then use disproportionately on Black men. Should we hold lawmakers accountable?” Davidai said when asked by author and filmmaker Mike Cernovich if he is “worried that the evil racist police will shoot people?”

Aren’t you worried that the evil racist police will shoot people? https://t.co/FgUCQDieDC— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 22, 2024

However, Davidai is demanding Columbia officials to send New York Police officers to his side and escort him to and from his office on campus amid the anti-Israel protests occupying university grounds. 

He accused Columbia of “completely fail[ing] to protect the safety of Jewish students,” resulting in him “requesting approval to have a police escort of at least 10 cops with me.”

“I would ask for an escort from the school’s Public Safety, but they have proven themselves useless versus these mobs, and I do not want to put their lives at risk,” he continued in a letter to administrators. 

A CNN report noted that Davidai has more than 50 complaints against him from students accusing the professor of harassing them. The university has confirmed that the professor is currently under investigation.

However, the professor said that he has never spoken out against students by name, only referring to them as “pro-Hamas” student organizations.

The professor, who is Jewish, was denied access to campus after his ID was de-activated due to the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” happening at Columbia where at least 200 demonstrators have been harassing Israeli students.

Davidai claimed that he had been banned from campus after trying to lead a pro-Jewish rally at the Ivy League school.

On Monday, several students arrived on campus with the professor to show solidarity with the university’s Jewish students. This comes as there have been increased calls for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to resign after failing to break up the pro-Hamas protests.

“I promise, I will try to get back to each and every one of you,” Davidai wrote on X. “In the meantime, I want you to consider this: To the best of my knowledge, the last time that a professor was denied access to their own university for being Jewish was Nazi Germany.”



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Hamas; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: columbia; israel; jewish; professor
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1 posted on 04/24/2024 8:57:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Cop in squad car: “Yeah, we’ll get right on that.”


2 posted on 04/24/2024 9:03:44 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve said this all along - NY Cops should step aside and let the woke students camp and the leftist admin rage

Its Trotsky vs. Stalin. Let them work it out themselves


3 posted on 04/24/2024 9:14:19 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: frank ballenger

When the day comes that you think you need 10 policemen to escort you to and fro on your college campus, you need to either take a two year sabbatical (for all this to blow over)
or find another place to work.


4 posted on 04/24/2024 9:26:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind
BLM attacking whites? Let the people express themselves, you racist police!

Hamas supporters attacking Jews? Help, police!

5 posted on 04/24/2024 9:37:55 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: SeekAndFind

Typical....


6 posted on 04/24/2024 9:39:57 PM PDT by CletusVanDamme (Well I'm all broken up about that man's rights... )
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats, left-wing Jews and “Jews”-in-name-only, leftists, liberals . . . voted for child mutilation (”trans-gender”), confiscation, deception, depravity, destruction, envy, fraud, “gender” dysphoria, greed, hate, homosexuality, jealousy, power, pride, rationing, theft, the “unrest,” and violence.

And “the two state solution” of muslim terrorism.

Getting all of it, at Columbia U. and everywhere that Eric Holder and B. Hussein Obama are hustling and organizing for socialist-”Islam.”


7 posted on 04/24/2024 9:49:11 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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8 posted on 04/24/2024 9:56:24 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

We will soon see if he is capable of learning


9 posted on 04/24/2024 10:05:23 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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To: SeekAndFind

Good Luck with that Pal.

Commie/Green/Islamists gonna provide Death to America.

YMMV.

Have a nice day.


10 posted on 04/24/2024 10:26:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

They are the epitomy of the left, willing to sit those who would kill them.


11 posted on 04/24/2024 10:34:09 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Columbia administrators need to be replaced IMMEDIATELY!
Maybe some new people will be able to restore some basic morality and human decency to the campus. Communist and Nazi-style supporters of Arab terrorists are not a good substitute.


12 posted on 04/24/2024 10:48:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry, we’re shorthanded. You are on your own.


13 posted on 04/24/2024 10:50:48 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: frank ballenger

Well, you hypocrite, it’s called *consequences*.

Defund the police for everyone else, but ask for an escort of ***TEN*** cops?

Who’s going to protect the other Jewish people on campus while you are tying up ***TEN*** LEO’s????


14 posted on 04/25/2024 12:28:59 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: SeekAndFind

Funny how that happens, hah?


15 posted on 04/25/2024 12:43:39 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was off the ping list.)
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To: lee martell
When the day comes that you think you need 10 policemen to escort you to and fro on your college campus...

... A light bulb should go on over your head telling you you've had it ALL wrong.

16 posted on 04/25/2024 12:49:03 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was off the ping list.)
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To: frank ballenger
He gets what he deserves. It's people like him who want to destroy society until it causes him problems. Davadai should protect himself from the same protesters he probably incited. I was thrilled to see the mob outside Schmuck Schumer’s house the other day. The only thing I wish for is more protesters at his house. I don't support their cause but I support them going to protest at the house of a corrupt scumbag.
17 posted on 04/25/2024 12:52:53 AM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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To: frank ballenger

when I finish my coffee, ill bring the chalk and my note pad


18 posted on 04/25/2024 2:12:01 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

Get whitey !

Chickens coming home to roost. Pencil neck geek should be lifting at the gym.

19 posted on 04/25/2024 2:24:33 AM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: SeekAndFind

What goes around, comes around.


20 posted on 04/25/2024 2:39:09 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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