Trump, Columbia University
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The Ivy League school has faced mounting sanctions and scrutiny from Washington since rejecting demands from an antisemitism task force.
The university is also committing not to meet with its most prominent pro-Palestinian group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, nor any affiliated groups,
Hearings in cases over Trump's efforts to deport protesters and pull Harvard's federal funding were both held in a Boston courthouse on July 21.
Attorneys for Harvard asked a federal judge Monday to prevent the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from the school.
The US says the UN's culture and education body is promoting "divisive social and cultural causes" - a claim the agency denies.
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T o do the same thing over and over and expect a different result is one definition of insanity. According to Robert Shibley, a special counsel of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), it’s also Columbia University’s approach to addressing anti-Semitism on campus.
Harvard University was back in court Monday for a major hearing in its funding fight case against the Trump administration, a key step in a battle over restoring more than $2 billion in federal funding for research frozen by the White House this spring.
As Trump exploits disdain for antisemitism to execute his own personal crusade against higher education, his laser focus on Jewish students and faculty becomes exploitive in and of itself.