The Donald Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University in New York because of what it alleges as the college’s repeated failure to protect students from antisemitic harassment. The announcement comes after Columbia set up a new disciplinary committee and initiated its own investigations into students critical of Israel and its war on Gaza after Hamas’ own attack on Israel. That move by the university has alarmed advocates of free speech. It also comes at a time of widespread backlash to American universities by the Trump administration and conservatives...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
