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The brutal removal of the Trump administration of $ 400 million in federal funding from the University of Columbia has thrown a veil on at least nine other campuses fearing that they are the next.
Schools, a mixture that includes both public universities and Ivy League institutions, were placed on an official administration list of schools that the Ministry of Justice may not protect Jewish students and teachers.
The faculty leaders of many schools have greatly rejected the assertions that their campuses are households in anti-Semitism, noting that if some Jewish students complained that they felt dangerous, the vast majority of demonstrators were peaceful and that many participants in the demonstration were themselves Jewish.
The Trump administration has targeted higher education a priority. This week, the president threatened in a social media position to punish any school that allows “illegal” demonstrations. On January 30, his 10th day in power, he signed a decree on the fight against anti-Semitism, focusing on what he called anti-Jewish racism in “leftist” universities. Then, on February 3, he announced the creation of a multi-aging working group to execute the mandate.
The working group seemed to take action quickly after a pro-Palestinian sit-in and a protest at the Barnard College, a partner school in Columbia, on February 26, two days later, the administration published its list of 10 schools under control, including Columbia, the site of large pro-Palestinian camps last year.
He said he would showcase schools, part of an examination process to examine “if corrective measures are justified”. Friday, he announced that he would cancel millions of subsidies and contracts with Columbia.
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