Shai Davidai is leaving Columbia University.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Per an email sent to Columbia Business School faculty on Wednesday morning from Dean Costis Maglaras and obtained by The Intercept, the vocal pro-Israel business school assistant professor made the decision to leave the school.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Davidai soon followed the internal announcement with a social media post<\/a> declaring that Columbia\u2019s Office of Institutional Equity had cleared him of allegations filed against him in February 2024. He was temporarily suspended<\/a> last year after Columbia said he \u201crepeatedly harassed and intimidated University employees in violation of University policy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBOOM,\u201d Davidai wrote, alongside a screenshot of a note on Columbia letterhead from the vice provost for the Office of Institutional Equity saying that it was closing Davidai\u2019s case without finding wrongdoing. University policy allows the office to close investigations when an employee no longer works there.<\/p>\n \u201cAssistant Professor of Business Shai Davidai has decided to depart Columbia, effective July 8, 2025,\u201d Columbia spokesperson Millie Wert said in a statement to The Intercept. \u201cThe University thanks him for his service and wishes him the best in his future endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n Semafor<\/a> was the first to report the news of Davidai\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n Davidai did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Davidai, who joined the business school in 2019, received viral attention for his pro-Israel tirades and self-filmed videos of his confrontations with pro-Palestine protesters. Several students, including Mahmoud Khalil<\/a> and Mohsen Mahdawi<\/a>, have also alleged that Davidai targeted them <\/strong>and called for them to be deported in the lead-up to their arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n Davidai was also a member of a prominent WhatsApp group of Columbia alumni, parents, and professors that strategized about how to deport pro-Palestine students<\/a>, The Intercept reported. He has noted<\/a> that he does not have tenure<\/a> at the school.<\/p>\n Update: July 9, 2025, 3:57 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n This story has been updated with additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Davidai is leaving Columbia University.\u00a0 Per an email sent to Columbia Business School faculty on Wednesday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16429,39341,99,16437,50,16428,16434,16435,16436,1393,16433,39342,16431],"class_list":{"0":"post-52689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-article-type-article-post","9":"tag-day-wednesday","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-language-english","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-page-type-article","14":"tag-partner-factiva","15":"tag-partner-smart-news","16":"tag-partner-social-flow","17":"tag-short","18":"tag-subject-politics","19":"tag-time-17-00","20":"tag-wc-0-999"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114826028557005679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}