Ex-University President At Center Of Anti-Israel Firestorm Lands Top UK Job

Former controversial president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, was operated by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to be his chief economic advisor.

Shafik sadly resigned from her role as President of Columbia in 2024 after her testimony before the Congress sparked an intense reaction. The university has become a hotspot for anti-Israeli demonstrations on American university campuses after the start of the War of Israel-Hamas on October 7, 2023, and Shafik was interviewed for having enabled several anti-Semitic incidents to continue.

“Baroness (Minouche) Shafik is a global economist, whose career has rode public policy and the university world,” reads the decision announced by Starmer’s press release. “This role and additional expertise will help the government to go further and faster in economic growth and the standard of living for all.”

Supporters of the demonstration are looking at NYPD members to have demonstrators from the pro-Palestinian camp and Hamilton Hall where demonstrators barricaded themselves on April 30, 2024 in New York. (Photo by Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)

COLUMBIA demonstrators organized several weeks camps and even took over a campus building during which an employee of the university was allegedly held hostage. The Ivy League school did not discipline more than 100 demonstrators involved in events until more than a year later, and despite the New York police who produced dozens of arrests, many accusations were finally abandoned. The intensity of the demonstrations even forced the university to move online instructions in order to “defuse” the situation. (Related: Columbia University drops the hammer on the anti-Israeli demonstrators a year after the “disturbances”)

Columbia administrators were even surprised defending the efforts of pro-Palestinian demonstrators in private messages, admitting that they hoped to conclude an “incredible” agreement for them.

Shafik previously occupied several financial roles, notably under the government of the United Kingdom as a permanent secretary of the Department of International Development. She was also deputy director general of the International Monetary Fund and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.

In his coverage of the Prime Minister’s appointment, the Associated Press did not mention the controversy surrounding the exit of Shafik de Columbia, declaring only that the former president “left her job … After examining her treatment of campus demonstrations and divisions during the War of Israel-Hamas”. The point of sale has resolved the demonstrators of several months, the demonstrators had at the university a question of Shafik confronted with criticism of students for “his decision to invite the police to arrest the demonstrators” and “republicans to the congress and others [who] called her to do more to call anti -Semitism. »»

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