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The president of Columbia University announced her resignation late Wednesday, months after she authorized a violent police crackdown on student demonstrators urging the school to divest from Israel over the country's devastating assault on the Gaza Strip. Minouche Shafik said in her announcement that recent months have been 'a period of turmoil where it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our community.
' Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine said in response to Shafik's resignation that 'after months of chanting 'Minouche Shafik you can't hide,' she finally got the memo.' 'To be clear,' the group added, 'any future president who does not pay heed to the Columbia student body's overwhelming demand for divestment will end up exactly as President Shafik did.
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