“No specific memory”: That’s how former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong responded to federal investigators who asked her about student activists calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. According to a transcript of her deposition at the Department of Health and Human Services obtained by Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson, Armstrong gave similar answers regarding allegations that students spit on their Jewish counterparts and that a faculty member described Columbia’s Jewish donors as “wealthy white capitalists” who “laundered” “blood money.”
“The testimony raises questions both about where authority at the university lies and about how, exactly, the Columbia board of trustees settled on Armstrong to lead the school in a moment of crisis after former Columbia president Minouche Shafik resigned last August,” writes Johnson. “A physician who ran Columbia’s medical center before she assumed the…
