At Columbia University, an ad hoc faculty committee has cleared a group of professors in the Middle Eastern studies department of being anti-Semitic. The New York Times has obtained a copy of the report which concludes that it had found “no evidence of any statements by the faculty that could reasonably be construed as anti-Semitic.” Last year a group pro-Israeli students released a video that purported to show students at Columbia and Barnard being intimidated by professors because of their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The faculty report does say it found one instance in which a professor “exceeded commonly accepted bounds” of behavior during a classroom discussion.