Lisa Leshne

🍎NYC Literary Agent, Founder and former Publisher of The Prague Post🇨🇿, Harvard MBA, IG @LisaLeshne @leshneagency

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@ShaiDavidai It’s great to see steps in the right direction!

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@ShaiDavidai @HereIAmWithShai Do you think students on campus (or anyone) can protest the war in Gaza and against the loss of innocent civilian life in Gaza without being antisemitic?

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@liel @ADL What is the original source for this please? It’s important to see/hear the full quote in context.

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Earlier today, the Chairman of the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee (@EdWorkforceCmte) called out @Columbia for failing to protect its Jewish students, faculty, and staff.

If you’re just hearing about this now, understand one thing: this didn’t come out of nowhere.

For 16 months, I’ve been demanding Columbia take action. They ignored me.

Since October 7, I have sent countless emails to Columbia’s leadership, including:
- Minouche Shafik – Former President
- Gerry Rosberg – Former Senior Executive Vice President
- Felice Rosan – General Counsel
- Cas Holloway – Chief Operating Officer
- Costis Maglaras – Dean, Columbia Business School
- Melissa Beg – Dean, Columbia School of Social Work
- Katie Conway – Vice Dean & Chief Operating Officer, Columbia Business School
- Gerald Lewis Jr. – Vice President of Public Safety

99% of the time, they didn’t even bother to respond.

Below is a list of 19 emails I sent Columbia’s leadership since October 7, 2023.

Not one of them received a response.

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1. November 19, 2023 – Email demanding Columbia enforce the suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine (@ColumbiaSJP). No Reply.

2. December 6, 2023 – Email about an unauthorized protest which the Dean of Columbia School of Social Work admitted wasn’t allowed but then let happen. No Reply.

3. December 12, 2023 – Email about Students for Justice in Palestine targeted attacks against me. No Reply.

4. April 2, 2024 – Email asking what will be done to student leaders at @ColumbiaBDS – a coalition of 93 student organizations, the organizations’ faculty advisors, and the sponsor (Barnard Center for Research on Women) of an event with a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine a U.S. designated terrorist organization. No Reply.

5. April 3, 2024 – Email about an authorized protest, asking for it to be shut down. (It wasn’t.) No Reply.

6. May 9, 2024 - Email calling out the president’s failure to mention anti-Jewish and pro-terrorist extremism in a statement on campus violence. Offered to work with the university to stamp out “antisemitism and support for terrorism from campus.” No Reply.

7. May 19, 2024 – Email asking what Columbia plans to do when pro-terrorist student organizations chant genocidal slogans, post antisemitic hate, and intimidate Jews and Israelis on campus and on social media. No Reply.

8. August 16, 2024 – Email congratulating Interim President Katrina Armstrong on her new position and offering my help. No Reply.

9. August 24, 2024 – Email about a student event in which a radical Imam called for students to target me. Demanded public condemnation, disavowal of the student organization, and sanctions against the event organizers. Ended by warning that the administration’s silence is a signal of its approval of targeting Jewish Israeli professors. No Reply.

10. August 28, 2024 – Email about a rushed a “safety assessment” that the administration conducted regarding the radical Imam’s that didn’t even include a conversation with me. Asked for details about the findings. No Reply.

11. August 28, 2024 – Followed up on email from August 24, 2024. No Reply.

12. September 27, 2024 – Email about campus protest in support of Hezbollah - a U.S. designated terrorist organization - in which the crowd chanted "We don't want no Zionists here". Noted the lack of action by present Columbia Public Safety officials. No Reply.

13. September 30, 2024 – Followed up on email from September 27. No Reply.
14. October 3, 3024 – Email asking Cas Holloway, Columbia’s Chief Operating Officer, for a meeting about safety concerns of Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, and staff. No Reply.
15. January 21, 2025 – Email reporting pamphlets with images of Hamas – a U.S. designated terrorist organization – threatening Jewish and Israeli students, faculty, and staff that “The enemy will not see tomorrow”. Asked what Columbia planned to do. No Reply.

16. January 22, 2025 - Followed up on email from December 12, 2023. No Reply. Followed up on email from April 2, 2024. No Reply.Followed up on email from April 3, 2024. No Reply. Followed up on email from May 9, 2024. No Reply. Followed up on email from October 3, 2024. No Reply. Followed up on email from January 21, 2025. No Reply.

17. January 23, 2025 – Email exposing Professor Elwin Wu from Columbia's School of Social Work who blatantly broke university policy by encouraging protestors to Zoom into class rather than attend in-person. No Reply.

18. January 28, 2025 – Followed up on an email from January 23, 2025, noting concerns of Jewish faculty, students, and staff. No Reply.

19. February 6, 2025 – Email about open support of anti-Jewish, anti-Israeli, and anti-American terrorism by @ColumbiaBDS. Reminded Columbia that this violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that as a federally funded institution, Columbia University has an obligation to protect all students regardless of race, religion, sex, or national origin. No Reply.

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Columbia’s administration must be held accountable.

This isn’t some faceless institution.

These are real people—people who either can’t properly handle the hatred of Jews and Israelis on campus, don’t care enough to try, or both.

People need to know.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have spoken out against 10/7 because he understood that there is nothing morally neutral about silence. Silence is not amoral but immoral. It is a form of complicity.

Dr. King once said: “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

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@turneyduff @jaltucher Exactly!!!

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Once @Gob_Guerrero called me a pride of the state.

Today, I ask for your help. My sister, Silvia Nayssa Arce Aviles and my brother in law, Alberto Sanchez, were kidnapped by armed civilians in Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico.

HELP us locate them and bring them back to safety.

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@DegenFarmer @AHS_Warranty I can relate! Broken A/C since July 17th during 2 heatwaves 100+ in the shade. AHS Contractor has been lying to us for wks, making excuses, says he’s coming then doesn’t show, day after day while we wait in our hot house missing work. AHS will not reassign to new contractor.

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