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What’s the latest? Trump officials after canceling $400 million in federal grants from Columbia University last week Sent a letter Schools are required to make comprehensive changes to their policies and governance, or risk losing the rest of federal funds.
What are the requirements? Broadly speaking, Israel’s war in Gaza should be severely punished by expulsion or years-long suspension.
Trump’s letter to “Working Group on Anti-Semitism” also asked Columbia to directly hold the university president’s office responsible for discipline, formulate a plan, develop a plan to “responsible”, write down new rules to prevent protests from “destroying campuses”, and through protests, keep the Middle East Research Department away from current leadership and hype completely.
Is this legal? No, according to Michael Dorf, Law Professor at Cornell University. The federal government can cut funds to punish civil rights violations, but only after a long process. But Colombia has not challenged this in court so far, hoping to seek compromises – perhaps fearing that the lawsuit will trigger a more serious retribution.
Why does this happen? Education Minister Linda McMahon Already claimed Since the protests began, Jewish students in Colombia “faced relentless violence, intimidation and anti-Semitic harassment on campus” and university officials allegedly did nothing to protect them from violating civil rights laws. However, critics believe it is a blatant effort to use federal power to cool criticism of Israel.
It is also part of a larger Trump administration strategy, which uses federal funds as leverage to universities, they see as incubators of “wake up” progressiveism. Back in 2021, Senate candidate JD Vance explain It’s time to “be honest and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” Recently, activist Christopher Rufo Asked Using critical funds from federal funds has put universities in “survival terror” and better “discipline”.
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