Lee Bollinger

President Lee Bollinger reiterated his opposition to the move.

The vote has been pushed to the fall semester “or whenever campus returns to its normal operation,” said CEC and CCSC.

They signed an open letter organized by the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) to applaud Lee Bollinger’s “forceful and unequivocal declaration against bigotry and prejudice, which are intolerable, as he said, when directed against any group, especially within a university.”

Lee Bollinger also said “it’s wrong” for Jews to be targeted by anti-Semitism, stressing that Columbia is not “an ‘anti-Semitic’ institution.”