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[quote=Anonymous]The incredible hypocrisy of Trump cutting off funding from universities due to "anti-semitism" while meeting a leader of Al Qaeda who was in the past shunned by America.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/world/middleeast/trump-syria-president-al-shara-sanctions.html
Trump Meets Ex-Jihadist Who Now Leads Syria
President Trump’s conversation with President Ahmed al-Shara was the first time in 25 years that the leaders of the U.S. and Syria had met.

The encounter was also a stunning turnaround for Mr. al-Shara, an ex-militant who led the rebel alliance that ousted the dictator Bashar al-Assad in December, and who once led a branch of Al Qaeda before he broke ties with the jihadist group and sought to moderate his image. The United States designated Mr. al-Shara’s militant group as a terrorist organization, and it dropped its offer of a reward of up to $10 million for information on him just five months ago.

A statement from the Syrian Foreign Ministry described the meeting as “historic” and said that Mr. Trump had “affirmed that the administration in Washington is committed to playing a positive and constructive role during this sensitive period.”[/quote][/quote]

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