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The interim president of Columbia University kicked off the new school year by apologizing to anti-Israel protesters on campus who were “hurt” by the NYPD when they worked to clear the agitators who descended on the campus last year.
“I know that this is tricky for me to say, but I do understand that I sit in this job, right. And so if you could just let everybody know who was hurt by that, that I’m just incredibly sorry,” interim university President Katrina Armstrong told student newspaper The Columbia Spectator in her first interview with the outlet since she was named interim president. “And I know it wasn’t me, but I’m really sorry.… I saw it, and I’m really sorry.”
Armstrong became interim president of the elite school last month when Minouche Shafik stepped down as president amid ongoing condemnation of her handling of campus protests last year that often turned violent.
Agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses nationwide last school year to protest the war in Israel, which also included spiking instances of antisemitism and Jewish students publicly speaking out that they don’t feel safe on some campuses.
IVY LEAGUE ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS’ PROTESTS SPIRAL INTO ‘ACTUAL TERROR ORGANIZATION,’ PROFESSOR WARNS
New York Police Department officers detain dozens of pro-Palestinian students at Columbia University after they barricaded themselves at the Hamilton Hall building on April 30, 2024. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Columbia’s campus was notably rocked by student and outside agitators demanding the school completely divest from Israel amid the…
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