In a viral video, Columbia Business School assistant professor Shai Davidai denounced university president Minouche Shafik’s “cowardice” for allowing the proliferation of “pro-terror student organizations” on campus, and told parents that students were not safe.

Standing at a small pro-Israel rally at the school’s Morningside Heights campus in New York City on October 19, Davidai recorded what he called “An Open Letter to Every Parent in America.”

The academic said he was sending “a message to every parent in America who sends their kids to NYU, to Harvard, to Stanford, to Berkeley, and I want you to know one thing: We cannot protect your child.”

Columbia University has hosted both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies in the wake of the October 7 Hamas massacre in which terrorists invaded Israel in a multi-pronged attack, leaving some 1,400 dead, thousands wounded and some 200 hostages taken to Gaza.