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Columbia students insist their university has done nothing about a 'tsunami of antisemitism' on campus after the Hamas attack - just as President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee. 

'In the five months following October 7, the Columbia administration sat idly by as a tsunami of anti semitism in the forms of harassment, bullying, exclusion, intimidation, and physical violence flooded every aspect of campus life,' one Jewish student said at a news conference ahead of the hearing. 

Jewish students told stories of Star of David necklaces being ripped off necks while the walk to class, having antisemitic slogans shouted in their faces as they said Columbia offers 'no transparency about what they're doing, if anything to the people violating the university rules.'

House GOP conference chair Rep. Elise Stefanik said: 'Columbia's leadership refuses to enforce their own policies and condemn Jewish hatred on campus, creating a breeding ground for antisemitism and a hotbed of support for terrorism from radicalized faculty and students.'