New Delhi, March 30 -- Columbia University's newly-appointed president once called Congressional hearings on campus antisemitism "Capitol Hill nonsense." Claire Shipman recently replaced Katrina A. Armstrong as Columbia University's acting president.

In a December 28, 2023, text message, Claire Shipman reportedly wrote to then university president Minouche Shafik, saying that she thought Columbia would be spared from the "capital hill nonsense," New York Post reported.

She had referred to December 2023 Congressional hearings that saw the presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and MIT testify about campus protests against the war in Gaza.

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