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Columbia University’s Shafik rebuked over Gaza crackdown but avoids censure

Columbia University's senate did not name President Shafik, seated left, in its resolution and avoided the harsher language of a censure [File: Alex Wong/Getty Images via AFP]

Columbia University‘s embattled president came under renewed pressure as a campus oversight panel sharply rebuked her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at its New York campus.

President Nemat Minouche Shafik has faced an outcry from many students, faculty and outside observers for summoning New York police to dismantle a tent encampment set up on campus by students protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza.

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