#Drumpf admin targeting of top universities does not spare #UCBerkeley whose #CalBear has been poked and probed by the President's fave pro wrestling doyenne now also in charge of the Dept of #Education.

Linda McMahon's #RWNJ minions have put the top #WestCoast public #university and research center under heat lamp of scrutiny for taking in hundreds of millions in donor dollars linked to foreign governments including #China, and a supposed culture of Title VI #discrimination against white and Jewish students. The President has personally targeted and threatened defunding the top tier #college for years, dating back to his first term.

Not only has the #campus been accused of the #CampusAntiSemitism trope but are dealing with 117 total issues laid out by federal authorities now seeking to #defund the public institution.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/25/uc-berkeley-trump-foreign-funding

from #Zeteo
I Am a #Jewish Student at #Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘#CampusAntisemitism ’

Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety.

#DefendStudentProtesters
#SolidarityWithPalestine
#Gaza #Palestine #StopGazaGenocide #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive #EndUSAidToIsrael #PalestinianLivesMatter #EndTheOccupation #Israel #StopArmingIsrael
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Big win for the MAGA here, but universities' double standards left an open goal for Elise Stefanik and her Trumpish friends.

Penn President Liz Magill Resigns: Live Updates

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/campus-antisemitism-will-harvard-penn-mit-presidents-get-fired-live-updates.html

#CampusAntisemitism #Antisemitism #USPolitics #Universities

Much to agree with in this Bret Stephens column.

Like Michelle Goldberg in her column earlier in the week, I think the university presidents walked into a trap. Nevertheless, the
point Stephens makes about double standards
deserves attention from the the left. Such attention matters for three reasons.

In the first place, institutional antisemitism, as exemplified by this campus double standard, is an evil that must be opposed. I disagree with those like @serge who think that making campus speech codes even more expansively censorious that they now are is the right way to oppose this institutional antisemitism, but that it must be opposed I am in no doubt. I believe that US universities need to ensure that opinions, even those of a profoundly offensive nature, can be heard and debated on campus, while behaviors that imperil Jewish students, staff, and faculty need more vigorous public deterrence. What has happened, for example, to that American Studies professor at UC-Davis who was making violent threats against Jewish journalists and their families? Merely scrubbing her name from the university website will not suffice; a public statement of disciplinary measures needs to be made.

Secondly, the double standard makes the academic left look unprincipled and undermines efforts to combat the populist anti-intellectualism propagated by right wing politicians and media outlets.

Thirdly, the double standard question should prompt the left both in the USA and beyond to move beyond reflexive sloganeering to a deeper debate about the place of liberal values like freedom of expression in the thought of the left and the relationship of activism to the academy.

#CampusAntiSemitism #FreedomOf Expression

Opinion | Campus Antisemitism, Free Speech and Double Standards - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/opinion/antisemitism-college-free-speech.html