Trump Threatens to Strip Funding to Colleges Over ‘Illegal Protests’
President Donald Trump vowed to strip federal funding to any higher education institution if it allows any illegal protest. He wrote on Truth Social:
All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
In other words…stop allowing antisemites spew genocide slogans and harassing Jews.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education, and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) already started reviewing federal contracts and grants connected to Columbia University due to the antisemitic and pro-Hamas protests that plagued the campus last spring:
Given Columbia’s ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students, the Federal Government’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is considering Stop Work Orders for $51.4 million in contracts between Columbia University and the Federal Government. The task force will also conduct a comprehensive review of the more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments to Columbia University to ensure the university is in compliance with federal regulations, including its civil rights responsibilities.“Anti-Semitism – like racism – is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “In recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence. Making America healthy means building communities of trust and mutual respect, based on speech freedom and open debate.”
Stop threatening people. These people weren’t protesting Israel’s policies. They were literally calling for Israel’s destruction, which would lead to the liquidation of Jews.
Genocide.
Oh, wait. The antisemites are still terrorizing Columbia.
Last month, members of Columbia University Apartheid Divest stormed a few buildings to protest the expulsion of other antisemites who targeted Jewish students in January.
Yes, they screamed the typical genocidal slogans: “The enemy will not see tomorrow” and “intifada, revolution.”
“Americans have watched in horror for more than a year now, as Jewish students have been assaulted and harassed on elite university campuses. Unlawful encampments and demonstrations have completely paralyzed day-to-day campus operations, depriving Jewish students of learning opportunities to which they are entitled,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “Institutions that receive federal funds have a responsibility to protect all students from discrimination. Columbia’s apparent failure to uphold their end of this basic agreement raises very serious questions about the institution’s fitness to continue doing business with the United States government.”
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