Columbia University’s new acting president dismissed the congressional hearings on campus antisemitism as “nonsense” in a 2023 text message.

Claire Shipman, co-chair of the university’s board of trustees, was appointed as the acting university president on Friday.

Shipman dismissed the congressional oversight on antisemitism as “capital [sic] hill nonsense” in a text to Columbia’s then-President Minouche Shafik. This remark was made in relation to a New York Times article, asserting that the university managed the Israel-Hamas conflict better than others. 

“[M]ost critically I think it heavily inoculates us for a while from the capital [sic] hill nonsense and threat,” Shipman commented in the message, which was disclosed in a 325-page report by the Republican House Committee on Education and the Workforce in October.

Armstrong took charge following Shafik’s resignation in August amid accusations of institutional antisemitism. However, Armstrong also resigned after a dispute with the Trump administration regarding $400 million in federal funding. 

Shipman previously worked as a CNN White House reporter, a White House correspondent for NBC News and a senior national correspondent for ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Shipman was married to Jay Carney, who served as the White House press secretary under former President Barack Obama.

Fox News’ Jasmine Baehr, Alexis McAdams, Louis Casiano, Alexis McAdams and Yael Halon contributed to this report.