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A spokesman announced Columbia University The US announced late Thursday the resignation of three officials who had previously been involved in what the administration described as “a disturbing exchange of text messages that included the repetition of old anti-Semitic tropes.”
Former Student Life Officer Christine Crum, former Student and Family Support Officer Matthew Patashnik, and Chief Administrative Officer Susan Chang-Kim have been placed on leave while an investigation is conducted.
The exchange of letters took place during a campus event called “Jewish Life on Campus: Past, Present and Future,” the university said in July, and came weeks after protests at Columbia and other universities across the United States over Israel’s war on Gaza Strip.
“This incident revealed behaviors and sentiments that were not only unprofessional, but also disturbingly repeated long-standing anti-Semitic tropes,” the university said in July.
The United States has seen months of protests over broad American support for Israel's war on Gaza, which has killed some 40,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry, displaced nearly all of the territory's 2.2 million residents and triggered famine.
The protesters on the campuses were demanding an end to the war, an end to US military support for Israel, and the withdrawal of university investments from companies that support Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
