Assistant Professor Shai Davidai confronts Columbia University officials as he is denied access to the campus grounds on April 22, 2024.
Emerging as one of the most prominent and controversial figureheads of the opposition to pro-Palestinian protesters is Columbia Business School assistant professor Shai Davidai, who is Jewish and Israeli American and has recently found himself barred from parts of Columbia’s New York campus amid the latest flareup in tensions. criticizing the president of Columbia University for not speaking out against “pro-terror student organizations” in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Davidai rallies his supporters as he is denied access to the Columbia University campus grounds for a planned oppositional sit-in among pro-Palestinian protesters on April 22, 2024.While Davidai was still barred from the gates, he urged those who had Columbia University IDs to enter the encampment.
“Shai acts like a 12 year old in need of attention, desperately staging viral videos and demanding retweets at the direct expense of the community for which he’s got a caretaking responsibility,” Lee Kovarsky, a law professor at the University of Texas, said in acriticizing Davidai that has been seen more than 3 million times since it was posted on Monday, according to X.that they had received threats after being “targeted” by Davidai on social media.
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