Trump cuts 400 Million in grants to Columbia over Antisemtism.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.

This.... it's taking education to a dark place.

It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.

Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.

These actions reek of DEI, ironically.

The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.

Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.

Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!

Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?

DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.

This.... it's taking education to a dark place.

It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.

Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.

Exactly!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.

This.... it's taking education to a dark place.

It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.

Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.

These actions reek of DEI, ironically.

The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.

Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.

Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!

Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?

DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.

I guess you’re not following current events? Trump has demanded NATO and the Ukraine pay the US back. We cannot keep giving Israel, a double standard for everything. Israel must repay the US in full.

Oh in no way is Israel a democracy and supporting Israel is not in any way in the US interest. Pay up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.

This.... it's taking education to a dark place.

It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.

Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.

Why is Shai Davidai not arrested? How come he is allowed to harass, intimidate, and obstruct students and employees on campus?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.

This.... it's taking education to a dark place.

It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.

Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.

These actions reek of DEI, ironically.

The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.

Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.

Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!

Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?

DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.

I guess you’re not following current events? Trump has demanded NATO and the Ukraine pay the US back. We cannot keep giving Israel, a double standard for everything. Israel must repay the US in full.

Oh in no way is Israel a democracy and supporting Israel is not in any way in the US interest. Pay up.

Trump is also asking Israel to pay with his proposal to develop Gaza. I don’t think it’s actually going anywhere because it’s not a realistic idea but don’t think he’s not trying to recoup $.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.

This.... it's taking education to a dark place.

It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.

Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.

These actions reek of DEI, ironically.

The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.

Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.

Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!

What are you blathering on about? You call that being an apologist for one side? Projection much?

Both groups, get TF out if you cannot drop your identity politics and STFU about the U.S. having to participate in your serial dysfunction. Emigrate there. Enjoy the shitty desert you actually have zero biological connection to. Or STFU about it and stop trying to pull the U.S. into this pathetic internecine B.S.

I don’t see Italian Americans wasting our time trying to drag the U.S. and our Treasury into their issues. Irish Americans? Nope. German Americans? Nope. Chinese Americans? Nope. Nigerian Americans? Nope. Brazilian Americans? Nope. British, French, Australian? Nope. Nope. Nope.

Catholics trying to drag us into Vatican City drama? Nope. Buddhists trying to stir shit up left and right, and demanding we foot the bill? Nope.

Even Russian Americans don’t cause this much dysfunction with an identity-crisis obsession over elevating their “homeland” above all else.

Just go already. We’ve had enough, and then some, of the B.S. and drama.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This will last about 15 minutes before it is overturned on First Amendment grounds, but maybe the pro Israel folks can take a half minute to reflect on how bad it looks that they are lining up to support someone whose playbook is looking surprisingly Hitleresque, and what this might mean for the long term support of your country?

As someone who married into the tribe, I can honestly say I don’t not care one bit if Israel seeks to exist tomorrow because I’m sick of them meddling in my country. And they only have themselves to blame.

Assume that this marriage is past tense.

Present. And my actively Jewish spouse is sick of their crap, too. We live in America and not Israel for a reason.

And she, like you, “doesn’t care if Israel [ceases] to exist”?

Strange sort of “actively Jewish” spouse you have.

Does a Jewish person HAVE to be pro Israel ?

Plenty of Jews aren’t involved in their religion same as Catholics Muslims Mormons. No one has to be pro anything

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.

This.... it's taking education to a dark place.

It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.

Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.

These actions reek of DEI, ironically.

The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.

Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.

Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!

Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?

DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.

I guess you’re not following current events? Trump has demanded NATO and the Ukraine pay the US back. We cannot keep giving Israel, a double standard for everything. Israel must repay the US in full.

Oh in no way is Israel a democracy and supporting Israel is not in any way in the US interest. Pay up.

Trump is also asking Israel to pay with his proposal to develop Gaza. I don’t think it’s actually going anywhere because it’s not a realistic idea but don’t think he’s not trying to recoup $.

Are you kidding????? Ukraine is being strongarmed to basically give its natural resources to the US in exchange of vital military help while the country is being invaded and occupied by a much more powerful a foreign country that has a huge nuclear arsenal and is occupying over 20% of its territory. The US us behaving like a mafia type protector, pay me or your store may be destroyed.
How can you compare this with Gaza? Trump would give Gaza free and clear to Israel, no Palestinians in it and Israel would be free to annex it and make it part of Israel. israel would pay to develop its own territory, Trump and his gang would just be in personally to gain money.

Do you want to compare the WH meeting with Zelenski with the one with Netanyhau? Because apparently we are now in money saving mode, no money to Ukraine no more money to Israel. Israel is a rich, developed country. They can put the hundreds of thousands of ultra-orthodox parasites to work (and draft them into the army). Miryam Adelson can shed some of her billions if Israel needs more

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a bad precedent. Letting a president decide which universities to fund based on ideology could end up going a completely different way under a different administration. This is not what funding decisions should be based on.

This.... it's taking education to a dark place.

It's not ideology here, it's behavior. The administration is saying protests which cross into intimidation and hate speech are not going to be tolerated. If colleges permit it, whether from inattentiveness or through a mistaken belief that free speech considerations require it, or if due to institutional sympathy for the message being propagated, the federal government will not provide financial support to the platform the colleges are providing.

Universities are not free-for-all, anything-goes zones. They exist for a purpose, and that purpose is not to be a forum for the promotion of political positions through violence and intimidation towards anyone.

These actions reek of DEI, ironically.

The endless drama from those with personal investment in that part of the world is long past tiresome at this point.

Either emigrate there or STFU about the U.S. having any obligation to participate in this dysfunction.

Says the Palestinian apologist, typing from the safety of her U.S. computer!

Why don’t you repay the US for all the aid you Israeli have taken from us?

DP. Why should Israel need to repay anything? The US chose to provide foreign aid to the only representative democracy in the Middle East. It felt supporting Israel was in the US best interest. Feel free to tell your representative that you don't agree. However, election have consequences.

I guess you’re not following current events? Trump has demanded NATO and the Ukraine pay the US back. We cannot keep giving Israel, a double standard for everything. Israel must repay the US in full.

Oh in no way is Israel a democracy and supporting Israel is not in any way in the US interest. Pay up.

Trump is also asking Israel to pay with his proposal to develop Gaza. I don’t think it’s actually going anywhere because it’s not a realistic idea but don’t think he’s not trying to recoup $.

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is committed to buying and owning Gaza, but could allow sections of the war-ravaged land to be rebuilt by other states in the Middle East.
“I'm committed to buying and owning Gaza. As far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build sections of it, other people may do it, through our auspices. But we’re committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that Hamas doesn’t move back.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-meet-with-leaders-saudi-arabia-egypt-israeli-president-says-2025-02-09/

Sound very expensive for the US.

[Anonymous]

I only hope that Trump takes racism on college campuses seriously enough to care when black and Hispanic students are maligned.

https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/20/hundreds-of-black-faculty-students-say-dartmouth-college-is-racially-hostile/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I only hope that Trump takes racism on college campuses seriously enough to care when black and Hispanic students are maligned.

https://vtdigger.org/2020/07/20/hundreds-of-black-faculty-students-say-dartmouth-college-is-racially-hostile/

Be serious. That will never happen.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/us/columbia-university-grants-canceled-trump/index.html


Sounds good to me. No way should students be able to take over buildings, keep threatening Jewish students on a campus in NYC????? And these students who take over the building and block access get no punishment from the University….

Ah, retribrutive authoritarianism. That's nice.

Seriously - these cuts to grants to the school are not related to grants for programs that may have been deemed anti-semitic. Instead they are expressly designed to punish the school for the protests that happened earlier. Trump can cancel anything at any time for anything anyone has done any time in the past. No one sees a problem with this?

Nope. All good. These antisemitic protest are continuing. As a Jewish person I am disgusted that Columbia is still allowing this. They are protesting Jewish people, not just Israel here.

He should cut all their funding if the school can’t cut down on this.

I have Jewish relatives also protesting on college campuses. They are protesting the war in Gaza. Trying to equate this with anti Semitism is not going to work. What happening is wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I’m a moderate Democrat, not Jewish, who voted for Harris and I don’t have problems with this. They can’t make campus safe for their students, the protestors are entitled and ignorant narcissists, and their professors encourage the violence. I don’t want to pay for that nonsense.

Let the Gulf States that are funneling propaganda and money to these schools make up the difference.

This. Completely. The people on here claiming the protests are peaceful either haven't seen the videos or are outright lying. Are there peaceful protestors? Probably. That is not the same thing as saying these protests have remained peaceful.

As I wrote earlier - I was on the Columbia campus last spring. The protests I saw were peace. The counter protest agitators were (1) not students and (2) were much more aggressive (yelling in people’s faces, blocking entrances).

I’d love to hear first hand accounts from others bit those are missing from this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This will last about 15 minutes before it is overturned on First Amendment grounds, but maybe the pro Israel folks can take a half minute to reflect on how bad it looks that they are lining up to support someone whose playbook is looking surprisingly Hitleresque, and what this might mean for the long term support of your country?

As someone who married into the tribe, I can honestly say I don’t not care one bit if Israel seeks to exist tomorrow because I’m sick of them meddling in my country. And they only have themselves to blame.

Assume that this marriage is past tense.

Present. And my actively Jewish spouse is sick of their crap, too. We live in America and not Israel for a reason.

And she, like you, “doesn’t care if Israel [ceases] to exist”?

Strange sort of “actively Jewish” spouse you have.

Does a Jewish person HAVE to be pro Israel ?

Are the only 2 choices (1) not caring if Israel ceases to exist, or (2) being “pro Israel”?

Obviously not.

Israel is the Jewish homeland, given by God.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I’m a moderate Democrat, not Jewish, who voted for Harris and I don’t have problems with this. They can’t make campus safe for their students, the protestors are entitled and ignorant narcissists, and their professors encourage the violence. I don’t want to pay for that nonsense.

Let the Gulf States that are funneling propaganda and money to these schools make up the difference.

This. Completely. The people on here claiming the protests are peaceful either haven't seen the videos or are outright lying. Are there peaceful protestors? Probably. That is not the same thing as saying these protests have remained peaceful.

As I wrote earlier - I was on the Columbia campus last spring. The protests I saw were peace. The counter protest agitators were (1) not students and (2) were much more aggressive (yelling in people’s faces, blocking entrances).

I’d love to hear first hand accounts from others bit those are missing from this thread.

FFS, just look at what occurred on the UCLA campus for clear evidence of who the aggressors are - thugs paid by Ackman, Jessica Seinfeld, and other malignant Zionist interests committed acts of mayhem in attacking those in the encampment.