You failed to mention the any of the incidents to which Shafik is trying to respond. Try this: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/nyregion/columbia-protests-antisemitism.html.

One can be critical of Shafik's approach, but one can't even evaluate it if one isn't appraised of the situation.

You do your readers and yourself a disservice. Your readers, because they deserve to be well-informed so they can make up their minds. Yourself, because you demonstrate that you do not trust your readers to make up their minds and instead feed them one-sided information--and if you don't trust them, they, in turn, should not trust you.

I mean, unless you and your readers are actually antisemitic. Then it would all make sense: you're saying what they want to hear, and they want to hear what you say, and everyone's expectations are being met. It's all cool, then. Except, well, for being antisemitic.

One could make a case that despite open praise from some faculty members for Hamas' attacks, and despite verbal and physical assaults on Jewish students for being Jewish, using the NYPD to clear a protest camp is wrong and a publicity stunt because the protest camp is a source of legitimate criticism of Israel's actions but isn't the source of the behaviors leading to genuine lack of safety and a frightening climate for Jewish students. But in order to make that case, you have to admit to readers that there have actually been some pretty problematic statements and actions, and then see if you can document that the problems and protests are disjoint.