Columbia University and Yale University appear to be in a competition to see who will be the poster child for antisemitism, intimidation, and polemics trumping serious insight or discussion of world affairs. Historian Martin Kramer warned 14 years ago that Columbia was entering a tailspin.

Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik essentially surrendered to the antisemitic mob of both students and professors just days after testifying she was unaware of antisemitism on campus. The university’s rabbi urged Jewish students to leave campus, and its chief operating officer prevented a Jewish professor from entering the main campus for his safety.