The Department of Education warned 60 colleges and universities Monday that they could be next to have federal funding taken away over antisemitic discrimination and harassment.
Those named and shamed included six of the eight Ivy League institutions — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale — and local schools Rutgers, Rutgers-Newark, Sarah Lawrence, three branches of the State University of New York, The New School and Wellesley.
Much of the world has chosen to dismiss or denounce Trump’s proposal for the Gaza Strip. That plan expresses Trump’s belief that Gaza could be turned into a highly desirable, mostly residential property, with a long and beautiful beachfront, once the rubble is removed, and the unexploded ordnance, and the other explosives with which Hamas booby-trapped so many civilian buildings, could also be collected and safely detonated. No Gazans would be forced to leave; the plan envisions a voluntary and temporary exodus, with Gazans returning, in staggered numbers, once some part of Gaza has again been rebuilt with what Trump envisions as attractive new and solid housing. He believes that this removal of the rubble and then the rebuilding of infrastructure will be paid for by the rich Arab states of the Gulf — Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait — with not one penny coming from the American government.
Adam Boehler, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, stated on March 9 that he did not rule out the possibility of reaching a long-term truce between Israel and the Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He also did not rule out the possibility that Hamas would agree to lay down its weapons, saying:
“I think there’s an answer here, and I think the answer is that Hamas lays down their arms. We exchange prisoners, and they [Hamas] go into a long-term truce, where they don’t fight, they’re not part of any political party, and that gives us lots of cooling-off time.”
Bias by omission on the PBS weekly news roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, as the panel of journalists played dumb about why Trump would cancel federal grant money from Columbia University, describing it as a typical Trumpian power grab. Whatever could have been happening there recently to validate such a move?
(Besides months of anti-Semitic campouts last year and the harassment of Jewish students and the chanting of homicidal slogans in the wake of Hamas’s terrorist invasion of Israel, of course.)
On the evening of December 8, 2022, four people met at a guest house in Presteigne, a small Welsh town in Powys, on the border with England.
They were Ruth Hogg, 40, who had a master’s degree in fine art and worked in an art gallery in Wales; Susan Bagshaw, 55, an artist and former social worker also from Commins Coch in Wales; Morwenna Grey, 41, a carer from nearby Machynlleth; and Tristan Dixon, 34, a musician from Huddersfield.
A Palestinian migrant who previously called for all Jews to be killed has said he has arrived in Britain on a small boat.
The young man, who goes by the name of Abu Wadei – with various spellings – shared footage from what appeared to be an inflatable dinghy on social media platform TikTok on Friday.
Wearing a keffiyeh, a head covering, he showed dozens of lifejacket-clad asylum seekers with him on the small boat.
In their zeal to join in the attacks on Israel, women’s and feminist groups ignore the daily brutalization of women by Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
Since the latest outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th, the state of Israel has been relentlessly accused of systematically oppressing and abusing Palestinian women and girls.
In fact, numerous political pundits have used International Women’s Day as the impetus to attack the state of Israel for the abuses that Palestinian women have allegedly been forced to endure since the latest outbreak of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on October 7th.
Immigration officials have arrested the head of the group that organized anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, sending him to a detention center in New Jersey to await deportation after the State Department revoked his green card.
Graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, who was a lead negotiator in the 2024 Gaza Solidarity encampment that paralyzed the school last spring, had most recently been involved with the occupation of the library at Barnard College, one of Columbia’s undergraduate colleges.
Federal law authorizes denying or revoking the visa of anyone who supports terrorist activity.
Six weeks into the second Trump administration, and days after President Trump vowed to push back on “illegal protests” on college campuses, the State Department has pulled the first visa of a foreign student who engaged in pro-Hamas disruptions. That’s the right thing to do if we want to fix campus cultures. And contrary to disingenuous critics, such a move poses no First Amendment problems.
No sooner had Israel lowered the bodies of the two murdered Bibas children into their graves, than radical leftists began accusing Jews of “white supremacy” for mourning them.
President Donald Trump has pledged to cut federal funding to schools that do not protect Jewish students from anti-semitic harassment and violence. The best place to begin this process is Barnard College in New York City. Cutting funding to major research universities threatens cutbacks on grants for medical and other important scientific research. Barnard College, on the other hand, is not a university. It does not have a medical school. Its faculty does little or no research that would affect Americans on a day-to-day basis. Cutting off federal aid to Barnard would have few negative impacts on issues that legitimately concern Americans, especially if it focuses on discriminatory actions and does not interfere with protected free speech.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration yanked roughly $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University on Friday, citing the school’s noncompliance with anti-discrimination laws.
The funding cancellation comes after months of antisemitic harassment and intimidation on the Morningside Heights campus — with pro-Hamas slogans proclaimed by demonstrators and the NYPD eventually being called in to restore order last April.
The State Department has yanked the first visa of a foreign student linked to “Hamas-supporting disruptions” after President Trump vowed to crack down on those involved in anti-Israel protests on college campuses.
“We revoked the first visa of an alien who was previously cited for criminal behavior in connection with Hamas-supporting disruptions,” a State Department spokesperson said in a Thursday statement first obtained by Fox News.
“This individual was a university student. [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] will proceed with removing this person from the country.”
Can you imagine that happening in Canada? No I can’t either.
The federal government is putting an additional $10 million into a program aimed at helping community groups counter violent extremism and antisemitism.
Official Languages Minister Rachel Bendayan tells the National Forum on Combatting Antisemitism that this money will go toward the Community Resilience Fund.
She says this money will help fund security services at grassroots organizations and help their staff better understand the early warning signs of extremism.
Unless that money is used for mass deportations it will be wasted.
Ukraine should heed the main lesson of the Israel/Gaza ceasefire: Europe is not prepared for an all-out fight to defend its allies, or even itself, when they are threatened.
A sovereign democracy is invaded, its citizens murdered, abducted, and raped. After many months of bloody fighting, its main ally, the United States, says it must have a ceasefire, even though its enemy is still threatening to vanquish it, and it will take away U.S. military support if it does not agree to a ceasefire deal.
How do European leaders respond? Do they embrace the leader of the invaded country? Do they offer to turn their economies upside down to compensate for loss of U.S. support? Do they offer ‘boots on the ground’ to help protect the invaded state? In the case of Ukraine, many have, but Israel is a quite different story.
