2025-01-29 Professor Avi Friedman's Resignation

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  • When: 2025-01-19

  • Where: Columbia University, Business School

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Avi Friedman, an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School, resigns and pens a scathing resignation letter to Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong citing school’s antisemitism and appointment of anti-Israel and antisemitic professorJoseph Massad to teach a class on Zionism as the reasons for the resignation.


This is the second resignation at Columbia due to the schools support for antisemites such as professor Joseph Massad, against whom there is a pending Title VI investigation. The first resignation was by the adjunct professor Lawrence Rosenblatt resigned in December, 2024.

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