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Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw students, faculty, free speech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a right-wing, pro-Israel narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.

For all Columbia’s appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to the university.

There is no appeasing a political force like the Trumpian right, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees antisemitism in every call for Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million.

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[–] Saleh@feddit.org 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I mean Columbia is known fur murdering Anti-War protestors since Vietnam.

This time round they cracked down on legitimate and legal protests long before Trump came into office, even allowing MAGA mobs to assault students and faculties, including Jewish people.

They didnt do this because they wanted to appease Trump. They did this because they are loyal to Zionism and are ideologically rooted in authoritarianism, neoliberal capitalism and racism.

I bet that the cut funding will be used to justify downscaling or removing everything related to social justice, critical history, diversity, equal rights and so on.