Sky News contributor Megyn Kelly says the “cowardice of the leadership” at universities across the board such as Columbia University is “absolutely disgusting”.

Anti-Israel protests that have engulfed the university are metastasising— spreading to other elite schools and to campuses around the country.

“I’m so disappointed in them – my expectations are appropriately set so it’s not like they’ve let me down big time,” Ms Kelly told Sky News host Paul Murray.

“If you look at Ron DeSantis who is the governor of Florida and has instituted rules for the state universities down there; he would never let this happen.

“What’s happening at places like Columbia and Yale and NYU is they are rolling over for these angry, anti-Semitic protesters.”