Columbia president calls last 2 weeks ‘among the most difficult’ in school's history amid anti-Israel protests

Columbia University's embattled President Minouche Shafik on Friday called the last two weeks "among the most difficult in Columbia's history," as anti-Israel protests continue to rage on the New York City campus. Shafik, speaking publicly for the first time about the long-running demonstrations that have taken over the campus since police cleared an occupied campus building in a video message posted to the university’s social media, said the "turmoil, tension, division and disruption