House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia University president Minouche Shafik to resign ahead of his Wednesday visit to the Ivy League school to condemn antisemitic demonstrations that have gripped the Morningside Heights campus.
Johnson (R-La.) told radio host Hugh Hewitt that Shafik had been “shown to be a very weak, inept leader” who “cannot even guarantee the safety of Jewish students.”
“They’re expected to run for their lives and stay home from class? It’s just, it’s maddening,” he said.
“What we’re seeing on these college campuses across the country is disgusting and unacceptable. And we have to, every leader in this country, every political official, every citizen of good conscience, has to speak out and say that this is not who we are in America.”
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