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 Daily Signal: President Donald Trump stated yesterday that a broad settlement with Harvard University was near at hand. But the determination of solid blue college administrations and faculties to thwart Trump’s policies to combat antisemitism and racial discrimination in admissions and to reduce the cost of higher education means that Harvard and, before it, Columbia University, will just be the beginning. To better combat the corruption of higher education, we must understand the lengths to which these schools will go in abandoning principle and academic integrity in their pursuit of protecting their havens of left-wing ideology. And there is no better place to start than the letter prompted by the president’s investigation of Harvard . ... There is much more.  Their anti-Semitism is a disgrace.  It is racism at its worst.   

 Washington Free Beacon: A Palestinian activist at Columbia University spooked neighbors in his small Vermont town by bragging about his hatred of Jews and his background of building weapons for terrorist groups, according to interviews and 2015 police records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Mohsen Mahdawi, who had recently moved to Windsor, Vt., from the West Bank, told multiple people in town that he had previously worked in a Palestinian refugee camp building guns for terrorists. "He said his job in the refugee camp was to make weapons," a source familiar with Mahdawi said. "He bragged about friends and family wanting to kill Israelis." Mahdawi, a leader in Columbia’s pro-Hamas movement, whom ICE detained and later released, is suing the Trump administration for revoking his green card. He described himself as a "peacemaker" in a sympathetic interview with CBS News and as a "human rights advocate" in the bio under his New York Times ...

 Blaze: Mark Levin destroys smarmy CNN host defending Jew-hating Harvard I have had several Jewish friends from Grade School through law school.  I worked with Jewish lawyers often when I was practicing. I found them both competent and easy to work with.  I did not see that kind of discrimination at the University of Texas.  They did have their own fraternity.  Apparently, some fraternities did not include them.  I was too busy carrying a heavy load of classes to graduate early to waste time with the fraternity scene.  I was in a legal fraternity, but it was more of an honorary situation than anything else.

 NY Post: Harvard University has admitted the ugly truth : The left’s long march through its faculty and administration has borne poisonous fruit in the form of blazing Jew-hatred and the overall ruin of its campus climate and curricula. Don’t take our word for it: Just read the elite Ivy’s own report on the Tentifada that sprang up in support of Hamas after Oct. 7. The committee tasked with looking into this antisemitic conflagration detailed how over decades what began as a tense, even rancorous zone of disagreement on campus — specifically, over Israel’s efforts to defend itself from terrorist aggression and the national aims of various Palestinian political factions — changed into an “attempt by student activists to drive Israeli students (and Jewish students who feel connected to Israel) out of student life.” This process was in train well before Oct. 7, and results (to use the words of a faculty member the report cautiously cites) from a “general shift of power from regular f...

 Newsmax: Trump: 'Antisemitic' Harvard Taken Hostage by 'Crazed Lunatics' Harvard is doing a disservice to itself by discriminating against Jewish students.  I attended the University of Texas as an undergraduate and in law school.  I had several Jewish friends in both and was glad to have them as classmates.  I also worked with Jewish lawyers on several cases.  Trump has Jewish grandchildren that he loves and does not want them to be discriminated against either. See also: It's Amazing What a Little White House Browbeating of Schools Will Do to Address Antisemitism And: Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik · 2h The heinous violence last night outside the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn is horrifying and unacceptable. Pro-terrorist antisemitic anarchists violently targeted one of the holiest Jewish sites in America, shouting vile antisemitic death chants and attacking Jews as they gathered in peace. This wasn’t a protest—it was a violent attack. Six arr...

 National Review: The Trump administration is freezing over $2 billion in federal funds to Harvard University , hours after the Ivy League school indicated it rejected the federal government’s demands for various policy reforms intended to restore ideological balance on campus. The multi-agency Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced on Monday evening it would freeze Harvard’s $2.2 billion in multiyear grants and a $60 million contract. “Harvard’s statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges – that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws,” the task force said in a statement . The swift action came in response to Harvard’s letter to the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and the General Services Administration — all members of the federal task force. In the letter, Harvard accused the federal government of disregarding i...

 NY Post: President Trump suggested Tuesday that Harvard University should lose its tax-exempt status — one day after his administration froze $2.2 billion in multiyear federal grants over the Ivy League school’s refusal to make changes to curb alleged antisemitism and overhaul admissions policies. “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?'” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!” Trump’s escalation could lay the groundwork for Harvard to face severe financial pain — as the administration uses the threat of federal action to compel changes at other prestigious institutions, including Columbia University, which has adopted a more conciliatory posture. Harvard president Alan Garber on Monday refused to entertain policy changes demanded by the Trump administration to address ant...

 Newsmax: The Trump administration has frozen roughly $210 million in federal funds to Princeton University amid an ongoing investigation into allegations of antisemitism, according to an administration official who spoke with the Daily Caller. The official said the funding pause is not the final outcome of the investigation. "Princeton has perpetuated racist and anti-semitic policies," the official told the Caller, as reported by Reagan Reese on X. The U.S. Department of Education launched the investigation in April of 2024 following a January complaint filed by Zachary Marschall, editor-in-chief of the conservative website Campus Reform, the Daily Princetonian reported . Princeton joined several top universities, including Harvard and Yale , under investigation by the Department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race or national origin at institutions receiving federal funding. Acco...

  American Action News: Columbia University announced Thursday it has suspended, expelled and revoked the degrees of students involved in the seizure of a campus building in 2024. The violent campus protests that overtook the campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas War on Oct. 7, 2023 culminated in several arrests at the university and the overtaking of Hamilton Hall in the spring semester of 2024, during which a university employee was allegedly held hostage. A university spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation they could not confirm the names or number of students affected by the punishments due to privacy concerns, but said the university “immediately began disciplinary processes” following the spring incident. “Today, the Columbia University Judicial Board determined findings and issued sanctions to students ranging from multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring,” the university’s ann...

 Federalist Wire: ... In a move that signals a firm stance against rising antisemitism on college campuses, the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force withdrew $400 million in federal grants and contracts from Columbia University on Friday. The decision, rooted in growing alarm over unchecked antisemitic incidents since October 7, 2023, marks a significant step toward holding universities accountable—an approach that aligns with President Donald Trump’s no-nonsense leadership style. Columbia has become a flashpoint for anti-Israel demonstrations over the past year, with tensions spilling over into affiliated institutions like Barnard College, an all-women’s school tied to the university. Just this week, Barnard saw yet another protest, the latest in a string of disruptive events that have rattled Jewish students and faculty alike. The antisemitism task force—a coalition spanning the Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, Education, and the General Services Admin...

 Front Page: In Trump’s first term, Jews were declared to be a minority group protected by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. And now, just weeks away from beginning his second term, Trump has laid down the law, in a speech he just gave at a rally against antisemitism in Washington. American universities that fail to combat antisemitism on their campuses should expect severe repercussions, including the loss of accreditation and of federal research contracts. More on Trump’s determination to stamp out campus antisemitism can be found here: “Trump to universities: Stamp out antisemitism or lose accreditation,” by Mathilda Heller,  Jerusalem Post , November 14, 2024: All American universities must end campus antisemitism or they will lose accreditation, President-elect Donald Trump promised during a rally against antisemitism in Washington. To “defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America,” Trump said he would inform every college president that if they do not “end a...

 Washington Examiner: ... In the texts, these university “leaders” showed that they viewed antisemitic harassment of Jewish students on campus as nothing more than a public relations problem rather than bigotry that needed to be stamped out on campus. Greenwald said, “If we are keeping our head down, maybe we shouldn’t meet with Republicans,” as it was congressional Republicans holding weak university leaders accountable for the outpouring of antisemitic bigotry on campus. Jonathan Levine, who preceded Greenwald, said, “Let’s hope the Dems win the house back” to stifle further investigation into these failing universities. Shafik’s contributions are the most notable for more than one reason. Shafik said she spoke with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and “He also said universities’ political problems are really only among Republicans,” and that “His staffer was of the view that best strategy is to keep heads down!” That is the same Schumer who has  slow-walked ...

  Wall Street Journal: The ancient poison of antisemitism has infected American higher education. During the spring, a student at Columbia was told to “go back to Poland” and chased off campus by a masked mob. A Yale undergraduate was poked in the eye with a flagpole. Jewish students at UCLA who refused to renounce their faith were blocked from critical parts of campus, a situation a federal judge found “abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.” Campus antisemitism isn’t restricted to these widely publicized incidents. Some Jewish parents say their children privately admit to feeling unsafe on campus. A survey by Alums for Campus Fairness finds “44% of Jewish students report never or rarely feeling safe identifying as a Jew at their school.” College administrators and local authorities have the power and responsibility to protect Jewish students, but they have often failed. In December we all witnessed the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylv...

 National Review: A L os Angeles federal district court ordered the University of California, Los Angeles, to stop allowing and assisting in self-described pro-Palestinian activists’ creation of what amount to Jew-free zones on campus, holding that the university may not offer classes if Jewish students are prohibited from participating in the programming. Those who occupied encampments on the university’s property disallowed Jews from passing through the quad unless they would disavow Israel and, by extension, their Jewish faith. UCLA’s position had been that the encampments preventing Jewish students from accessing certain areas of campus were not its responsibility. Despite that contention, the university erected metal barriers around the encampment and directed Jewish students to leave, according to a lawsuit. “In the year 2024, in the United States of America, in the State of California, Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to den...

 DC Daily Journal  reports that Democrats are unlikely to add a Jewish governor to their ticket with Kamala Harris because they would likely lose in Michigan which has a large Arab population that includes an anti-Semite like Representative Rashida Tlaib.  The party itself is seen by many as anti-Israel. ... See also: Tom Cotton @SenTomCotton Iran’s terrorist proxies have again committed mass murder against innocent Israelis, mostly children. Yet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris continue to put more pressure on Israel than on Iran and the terrorists. The United States should instead back Israel to the hilt to destroy our common enemies. 7:04 PM · Jul 27, 2024 · 27.4K Views