Columbia University, Trump and Title VI
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President Donald Trump’s administration vowed to expand its probes on college campuses beyond Ivy League institutions to other schools — including the University of California system — as the White House’s targeting of higher education intensifies.
The media, universities, the Democratic Party and liberals, by embracing the fiction of “rampant antisemitism,” laid the groundwork for their own demise. Columbia and Princeton, where I have taught, and Harvard,
Trump considers shifting $3 billion from Harvard to trade schools, criticizing the university for alleged antisemitism and national security concerns.
The federal government formally accused the university of violating civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish students.
It marked the latest blow for an Ivy League school already shaken by federal cutbacks and sustained government pressure.
Columbia is already in talks with the administration, which in March cut $400 million in grants and contracts to the school, citing antisemitism concerns on campus.
The White House is ramping up its crackdown on antisemitism in the wake of the Washington shooting that left two young Israeli Embassy staffers dead Wednesday night. The administration has for
Mayhem erupted outside Columbia University’s graduation Wednesday as some students burned their diplomas and cops tussled with dozens of rowdy anti-Israel demonstrators, arresting at least two people.