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In Trump’s first term, Jews were declared to be a minority group protected by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. And now, just weeks away from beginning his second term, Trump has laid down the law, in a speech he just gave at a rally against antisemitism in Washington. American universities that fail to combat antisemitism on their campuses should expect severe repercussions, including the loss of accreditation and of federal research contracts. More on Trump’s determination to stamp out campus antisemitism can be found here: “Trump to universities: Stamp out antisemitism or lose accreditation,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2024:
All American universities must end campus antisemitism or they will lose accreditation, President-elect Donald Trump promised during a rally against antisemitism in Washington.
To “defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America,” Trump said he would inform every college president that if they do not “end antisemitic propaganda,” they would lose accreditation and federal support.
He did not say they “may lose” accreditation. Trump said they will lose accreditation, and their share of the billions of dollars in federal support that universities receive. A double blow to their finances and reputation.
“We will not subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers, and we’re not going to do it – certainly [not] on American soil,” he said.
Trump added that once in the Oval Office, he would inform all educational institutions that if they permit violence or harassment against Jewish students, they will be “held accountable for violations of the civil rights law.”
“It’s very important – Jewish Americans must have equal protection under the law, and they’re going to get it,” he said. “At the same time, my administration will move swiftly to restore safety for Jewish students [on campuses] and Jewish people on American streets.”…
Those wet-behind-the-ears stormtroopers will no longer be allowed to harass and attack Jewish students. They won’t be able to march around the campus, entering lecture halls to disrupt classes taught by Jews and Israelis, or entering campus buildings in order to vandalize them, as they did on April 28 to Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, in an attempt to pressure the administration to divest from Israeli companies, and to cut institutional ties to Israeli academic institutions. If universities do not take forceful action against those who are fomenting a climate of antisemitism — something that very few of them did this past year — then they stand to lose their accreditation, which means their students would no longer have access to federal financial aid. In addition, earning a degree earned from an unaccredited school can also hold little value to employers and disqualify someone from attending graduate school. In addition, the federal government funds billions of dollars in research projects conducted at universities; that money could dry up if not enough is done to fight antisemitic acts on campus.
Many universities have shown themselves incapable of dealing with the surge in antisemitism on their campuses since October 7, 2023. Deploring antisemitic acts, declaring sympathy with Jewish students, promising solemnly to do better, is not enough. Nor are those slap-on-the-wrist punishments, where a handful of the worst offenders are suspended from campus for a term, and then that suspension is immediately lifted. Columbia University administrators considered caving to the demands of anti-Israel students, including agreeing to financial divestment from Israel-linked companies, as the just-released report from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce makes clear. And at Columbia, after dozens of marches by those screaming about “genocide in Gaza,” the harassing of Jewish students, the seizure of campus buildings, the setting up of tent encampments, a grand total of four students received temporary suspensions. “Harvard cut language condemning Oct. 7 attack as ‘violence,’ reference to hostages from statement on massacre, House GOP report shows,” by Josh Christenson, New York Post, October 31, 2024:
Harvard University President Claudine Gay and other administrators intentionally cut language condemning Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of more than 1,200 civilians as “violence” and references to their Israeli hostages from an official statement after the brutal attack, a stunning House committee report revealed Thursday.
The GOP-led House Education and Workforce Committee in a 122-page report found that the Ivy League university leaders made “an intentional decision” to water down their Oct. 9 statement that still failed to condemn Hamas’ attack, according to documents, some of which were obtained via subpoena.
“We denounce this act of terror,” reads an earlier draft of the statement that was jettisoned.
Then-Harvard Law School Dean John Manning, who has since become the school’s provost, successfully lobbied against adding more language that referenced the hundreds of hostages taken by Hamas.
“The violence hits all too close to home for many at Harvard,” states the earlier draft. “Some members of our community have lost family members and friends; some have been unable to reach loved ones, and others fear that their loved ones may have been taken hostage.”
The administrators also opted against denouncing a joint statement from 31 Harvard student groups holding Israel “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ atrocities.
On many campuses, including Harvard, Columbia, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan, Jewish students have reported a climate of widespread antisemitism that has been tolerated by administrators. Lawsuits accusing Harvard University of tolerating antisemitism and making it unbearable for Jewish students to study there are ongoing.
Now Trump has set down the law, threatening to take away both accreditation, which would mean no student access to federal financial aid, and research funds, from colleges and universities that fail to deal adequately with antisemitism. A new sheriff is in town.
Gaudeamus igitur.
Time to totally cut off al funding to these Campuses by 100% and save the Money to Build Border Walls Instead or wasting it on those Hate Mongers and Indoctrination Centers
There is JEWPHOBIA but also MAGAPHOBIA!
“MILLIONS take Pride in those who are coming Out of The Closet while those same Millions are making others run into one.”
I’m still hiding in a MAGA closet. I come out for a minute but run back in for fear of being outed, then intimidated, and then retaliated against… just like Gays used to do.
It happened during a Trump rally here in ABQ. I was right behind his right shoulder wearing a red Hispanics (Heart) Trump t-shirt. I was seen nationally, plenty of videos on Youtube, even on Jimmy Kimmel. THEN CAME the exposure on FB, the unfriending while they first chewed me out, 99% music professors. In person once I showed people my screenshot to those that saw me, then the word spread, and then the fingers, one-liners, evil looks, and no looks.
MY COUNTER: “I bet you’re against guns, blame guns, even want to ban them, right? (They agree and start to rant.) I also bet you’re really bummed that the PUNK KID MISSED WITH HIS EVIL GUN and the man was oh so close to saving our Democracy… RIGHT?” Some haters actually are bummed and say it, some write it on FB, and others imply it.
WHAT ARE UNIVERSITY DEI CZARS FOR if not to protect ALL students! The UNM DEI Czar makes $270,000 a year and has four assistants… for what, I don’t know! So far, they’ve only protected Muslims, suspected hoaxes, and Blacks. What then is a Black Student Union? For DEI… Hispanic Student Union? Asian Student Union? I’m waiting for a White Rosa Parks who will sit at their lunch counter! Then up to 75 Black’s Only Graduations? Now they’re into Segregation?
GIVING ILLEGALS FREE TUITION, ROOM, AND BOARD??? Legals get NADA!
Justicia para los MAGAS! (No pronoun alert).
Why not go somewhere else and let them starve? The degree is probably useless anyway.
Trump to the University grandees, particularly the Ivy League types: “Nice endowments you have there. Be a shame if they got taxed. Oh yeah, no more Fed student loan $$$s either. The free ride is over.”
Add additional prison years for the criminals and terrorists who wear masks.
And add hate crime charges for wearing hate symbols such as terrorist flags or keffiyeh which represent new swastikas.
Absolutely add charges to mask wearers. And arrest anyone in a Keffiyah. It’s not an Arab symbol, it’s a symbol of Jew hatred.
This is what competent leadership looks like. Ever since October 7, we have seen a dramatic void in leadership to equally apply the law. The leadership has failed to protect the Jews because they were intimidated by the most boisterous infantiles who were influenced by bad actors from terrorist groups. Mushy headed liberal kids have been influenced by Middle East psychopaths. These young students lack clear moral principles so they rebelled against the most vulnerable students on campus, the Jews.
Thank God that a leader has surfaced from the rubble of American stupidity to lead us out of this mess.
Qatar, prime funder of the riotous Students for the Liberation of Palestine, needs to be sanctioned heavily.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
It’s a good start, but he also needs to remove the terror loving, marxist ‘lecturers.
Without that, things won’t really change.
They will be booted out once the reality of losing accreditation and federal funding sinks in. They’re obviously incompetent anyway when it comes to real instruction, the kind that actually tries to impart knowledge.
The problem is bigger than jew hate, the problem is idle rich intellectual types with 900 billion in endowments who have taken up politics and wrapped it in the robes of academics. Universities have ceased to be institutions of higher learning, instead become investment vehicles like harvard, to name one. If you ust want to learn something, the internet is always-on, knock yourself out. If you want to pay a lot of money for the college experience, extended adult babysitting, and get lectured at length about some college professor’s worldview and politics and be forced to study indoctrination-laden textbooks and other materials, by all means sign your life away. The bank will love you. And you can have lots of fun joining the hamas glee club.
Student loan forgiveness wouldn’t be a topic unless higher ed had systemic problems. Like ‘deep throat’ taught us years ago, ‘follow the money’. Let’s see some school audit reports please. Clear up money problems, probably clear the others also.
“ Gaudeamus igitur.!”
Enim vero!
There is a new sheriff in town.
It would be quite interesting if Harvard and Columbia lost their accreditation.