The New York home of Columbia University’s chief operating officer Cas Holloway was found vandalized with red paint and Nazi and Hamas imagery — as well as insects — on Thursday, Aug. 8. Inverted triangles, which have been used by Hamas to identify Israeli targets and Nazis to tag prisoners during the Holocaust, were painted on the entranceway to Holloway’s apartment building. “Columbia unequivocally condemns vandalism, threats, and personal attacks,” a University spokesperson said in a statement. “Anyone engaging in such activity will be reported to law enforcement and face...

Three Columbia University deans who were permanently removed from their posts earlier this summer after the university’s president said they engaged in “very troubling” text messages that “touched on antisemitic tropes” have resigned, a school spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Thursday.Video above: Columbia University President Minouche Shafik speaks to Congress about antisemitismThe deans, Susan Chang-Kim, Cristen Kromm and Matthew Patashnick, were removed from power in July after their actions during a May 31 panel discussion about Jewish life at an alumni event.

The deans said Jews came from a ‘place of privilege’ and it was ‘hard to hear ... woe is me.’ Several deans at Columbia University have resigned after exchanging texts disparaging Jews during an event exploring anti-Semitism on the New York school’s campus. A university spokesperson said on Aug. 8 that three deans who exchanged the messages have stepped down. Columbia officials said in July the administrators were being removed from their positions at Columbia College and would be on leave after officials learned of the texts, which were sent...

3 Columbia deans resign over texts that 'touched on ... antisemitic tropes' Three deans at Columbia University have resigned, putting an end to a saga known on campus known as “Textgate.” The three were removed from their positions in June ( ) after revelations that they had sent what the university called “unacceptable and deeply upsetting” texts that “touched on ancient antisemitic tropes.” A university spokesperson confirmed the resignations but offered no further comment.

Three Columbia University deans who participated in a disturbing text exchange during an event called “Jewish Life on Campus: Past, Present, and Future” have resigned, the Daily Beast has learned. Matthew Patashnick, Susan Chang-Kim, and Cristen Kromm came under fire for a text message exchange during the Columbia panel event that featured David Schizer, the head of Columbia’s antisemitism task force, and Brian Cohen, the director of Columbia/Barnard Hillel, the college’s branch of the largest campus Jewish living group in the U.S.

Columbia University confirmed Thursday three university deans resigned following the leak of antisemitic text messages, The New York Times reported. Three deans from Columbia University are reportedly resigning following a controversy involving disparaging text messages exchanged during a forum on Jewish issues, as confirmed by the university, according to The New York Times.

Three Columbia deans have resigned from the university three months after engaging in a text exchange that the university’s president said “touched on ancient antisemitic tropes.” Susan Chang-Kim, the college’s vice dean and chief administrative officer; Cristen Kromm, the dean of undergraduate student life; and Matthew Patashnick, the associate dean for student and family support, are resigning, a university spokesperson told the Washington Examiner. They had been placed on indefinite leave in June as an investigation continued.

Three Columbia University deans have resigned in the wake of controversial texts they exchanged during an alumni weekend event about Jewish life on campus, the Ivy League school confirmed Thursday. The departures arrive a month after Columbia president Minouche Shafik told the campus community the administrators would be removed from their roles and placed on indefinite leave for texts that “touched on ancient antisemitic tropes.” She said the messages were troubling and the incident revealed “deeply unsettling” sentiments.

The three Columbia University deans who mocked concerns about campus antisemitism in the aftermath of pro-Palestinian protests that gripped the campus this spring have formally resigned, a university spokesperson confirmed Thursday. The administrators, who exchanged text messages in late May that university president Minouche Shafik said “touched on ancient antisemitic tropes,” were permanently removed from their positions last month and had been placed on leave.

Three Columbia University deans who exchanged “very troubling” texts that “disturbingly touched on ancient antisemitic tropes” are resigning from the elite school, according to a report Thursday.

Susan Chang-Kim, Matthew Patashnick and Cristen Kromm — who were permanently removed from their administrative roles last month — will no longer serve at the Ivy League university, a Columbia spokesperson told the New York Times.

The trio was put on leave after it emerged they’d sent disparaging text chain that unfolded during a panel discussion about antisemitism on campus.