Columbia professor, neuropsychologist Jennifer J. Manly
Columbia has been in the news for several years for all the wrong reasons. Anti-Semitism has been rampant on the campus since the October 7 attack resulting in the disruption of classes, illegal encampments, destructive building occupations, and the vicious targeting of Jewish students. Because the school failed to correct these educational atrocities, President Trump has cancelled $400 million in federal funding previously earmarked for the university.
One professor has felt free enough to flaunt the dexterity of her ignorance in several ways. Columbia professor, neuropsychologist Jennifer J. Manly, participated in the pro-Hamas protests and stood as part of a human blockade intending to stop administrators from tearing down unauthorized encampments last spring. Photos taken at the protest, clearly show Manly wearing an orange vest and standing with other Columbia professors as they marched for Gaza, in front of signs that read “Demilitarize education” and “Palestine is Everywhere. Other banners called for financial boycott and divestment from Israel.
Manly has not only used her position to indoctrinate students at the university, with her hatred of Israel, she has also found a way to have her racial biases subsidized by American Taxpayers. The database at the National Institutes of Healthland, and others that are publicly accessible, indicate that she has been involved with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 years.
Manly has centered her research on the social determinants of health (SDH), which are the non-medical factors influencing health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, as well as the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems include economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies, and political systems.