Why is Colombia University allowing discrimination against Jews?
President Donald Trump's administration has canceled grants and contracts totaling $400 million to Columbia University in New York City due to "inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students," the General Services Administration said Friday.
The U.S. government said the canceled funds would come out of $5 billion in grants committed to Columbia, the GSA said in a joint statement with the Department of Justice, the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Columbia has been at the center of college protests in which demonstrators demanded an end to U.S. support for Israel due to the civilian deaths and humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
There were allegations of antisemitism and Islamophobia in protests and counter-protests. Columbia has previously said it made efforts to tackle antisemitism.
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I have had Jewish friends from childhood to this day and have never understood the hostility toward them. While I was a student at the University of Texas the Jewish students I was friends with did have their own fraternity because apparently, other fraternities would not have them. I was taking a heavy load to graduate in three years so I did not have time for fraternities myself. When I became a lawyer and general counsel to companies in Texas I interacted with Jewish lawyers from around the country and found them friendly and competent.
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