Columbia University protests: Rep. Elise Stefanik urges trustees to remove Shafik after mob seizes building

House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is calling for nan removal of Columbia University President Dr. Nemat "Minouche" Shafik, aft a mob of anti-Israel agitators took complete an world building early Tuesday morning.

In a missive sent connected Tuesday to David Greenwald and Clair Shipman, some co-chairs of nan Trustees of Columbia University, Stefanik called nan "chaos that has engulfed" nan field for weeks, reaching caller levels early that greeting erstwhile Hamilton Hall was "stormed, defaced and taken over," preventable.

The mob held workers hostage, provided demands to nan assemblage and barricaded nan building, and arsenic of nan letter, it was still occupied.

"These actions, arsenic good arsenic nan forbidden encampment and violent riots, spell acold beyond immoderate correct to free reside protected nether nan First Amendment," Stefanik said. "This unit is simply a nonstop consequence of nan appeasement policies President Minouche Shafik has utilized to reside antisemitism connected campus. 

"President Shafik has allowed field to beryllium taken by mob rule, and she must instantly beryllium removed, truthful this business tin beryllium met pinch swift and overwhelming consequence to retake campus, reconstruct order, and protect Jewish students."

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Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is calling for nan removal of Columbia University President Dr. Nemat "Minouche" Shafik. (Haiyun Jiang/Bloomberg)

Stefanik accused nan assemblage of allowing antisemitism and upset to dispersed connected field for "far excessively long," and grounded to enforce nan assemblage president’s deadlines for nan encampment to clear.

She besides accused nan schoolhouse of preventing nan New York City Police Department (NYPD) from entering field and removing nan encampment.

"Under President Shafik's grounded leadership, nan norm of rule astatine Columbia does not beryllium and consequences person gone without enforcement," Stefanik wrote. "Just past night, a student who was supposedly banned from field aft calling for nan sidesplitting of Jews reportedly led nan takeover of Hamilton Hall. Had immoderate consequences been enforced against this antisemitic encampment that has been operating for weeks, these events could've been prevented.

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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik. (Fox News Digital)

"This is simply a dereliction of duty. President Shafik has bent complete backwards to appease antisemitic radicals and agitators who person sown chaos," she added. "By enabling this to happen, President Shafik is first and foremost violating nan authorities of Jewish students and faculty, but besides creating an situation that is unsafe for each connected campus."

Because of her actions, Stefanik urged nan assemblage trustees to region Shafik from her position and unafraid nan information of students and unit "before different building connected field is allowed to fall."

The lawmaker has been each but silent erstwhile it comes to nan anti-Israel protests astatine Columbia University.

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Anti-Israel agitators campy adjacent nan entranceway to Hamilton Hall connected nan field of Columbia University connected Tuesday successful New York City. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, Pool)

Last week, Stefanik sent a missive to apical members of nan Biden administration, demanding national involution to protect Jewish students.

In nan letter, she described nan protesters arsenic an "unsanctioned mob of students and agitators permitted to proceed to target Jewish students" and cited antisemitic incidents that person occurred arsenic a consequence of their activity.

"Consequences are needed for those who are calling for coercion and convulsive attacks," she wrote. Stefanik cited nan Immigration and Nationality Act, which states that anyone who endorses coercion tin go ineligible for American residency, and noted that protesters are "brazenly endorsing Hamas and other terrorist organizations."

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"By allowing this support for panic to continue, this wicked ideology is capable to spread," Stefanik argued. "I request that you enforce existing rule to revoke nan visas and deport students present connected visas who are suspended for their antisemitic actions." 

She besides called for nan Department of Education to clasp Columbia accountable by revoking immoderate national backing that nan Ivy League schoolhouse receives.

Fox News Digital’s Andrea Vacchiano and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.