Columbia Spectator covers AIM activism in wake of Shafik resignation
August 16, 2024
Accuracy in Media digital billboard trucks return to campus displaying image of Shafik
Conservative media group Accuracy in Media and its president Adam Guillette returned to the Morningside campus on Thursday with digital billboard trucks displaying an image of Minouche Shafik following her resignation as University president.
Accuracy in Media brought the billboards to campus to “celebrate the resignation” of Shafik, according to a news release from the group announcing the trucks’ return. Alongside the picture of Shafik, the digital billboards featured the statement, “Attention Columbia Students: Minouche Shafik allowed antisemitism to destroy her career. Do not make the same mistake.”
The digital billboard trucks first appeared on Columbia’s campus in late October 2023, displaying the words “Columbia’s Leading Antisemites” alongside the faces and names of Columbia affiliates who were allegedly part of organizations that signed a Palestinian solidarity statement.
Students gathered with balloons and umbrellas to block the names and faces displayed on the truck when it first appeared in October. As the trucks remained around campus in the following days, around 50 students gathered for “Not in Our Name: Stop Doxxing Now,” a protest led by Jewish students against the truck. Accuracy in Media returned to campus with a “doxxing truck” again in late January.