Peloni: It is vital that this become a routine rather than remarkable response to advocates of terror in the US. There are also laws aplenty which might be applied to those who partake in or support terrorism, so let us not delay in applying these legal standards to those who sponsored these pro-Hamas events. Indeed, break these terror loving dens using every means possible, with the specific intent of making their support of terror as anathema as it was once ubiquitously accepted to be. This is a lesson worth learning and no better place to teach it than among the terrorist supporting dens of inquity which now inhabit what was once the pinnacle bastions of America’s educational establishment.
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Richly deserved and long overdue, and much, much more must be done to restore sanity to American academia.
“Trump administration cancels $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University,” by Luke Barr, ABC News, March 7, 2025:
NEW YORK (WABC) — The Trump administration has cancelled $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia University for “the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,” according to the Justice Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education and the General Services Administration.
The Administration says that on March 3, the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, which is comprised of components from each of the federal agencies, notified Columbia’s administration that “that it would conduct a comprehensive review of the university’s federal contracts and grants in light of ongoing investigations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act,” according to a press release.
At the start of the Israel and Hamas conflict, Columbia was a hotbed of protests that would often turn violent with at least one building being overtaken by demonstrators.
Columbia, according to the Administration holds about $5 billion in federal grant and contracts.
“Freezing the funds is one of the tools we are using to respond to this spike in anti-Semitism. This is only the beginning,” said Leo Terrell, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and head of the Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. “Cancelling these taxpayer funds is our strongest signal yet that the Federal Government is not going to be party to an educational institution like Columbia that does not protect Jewish students and staff.”…
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/405738
Thank you, President Trump,
@Reader
Thank you again.
@peloni
I remembered one more thing about that textbook (in case you will try to attempt to find it) – it was the first edition that I know of that had three authors, not two.
@Reader
Thank you for these details.
@peloni
I saw a college textbook in Humanities, it was a long time ago:
Experience Humanities, Complete Edition 2009 or 2010, I think, issued by McGraw-Hill, (in later editions the questionable content was edited to be more presentable) authored by T. Matthews, F. DeWitt Platt, Thomas F. X. Noble.
I cannot give literal quotes now but at the time it said that Hitler raised German economy out of depression with his charisma, and in another place, that Germans placed Jews in ghettos for the reasons of social hygiene.
I also saw a comment under an article by Tamar Yonah (probably around that time also) when she was still with Arutz 7, the commenter mentioned this problem (I don’t remember the actual facts, it was probably something about this kind of bias or some anti-Israel biases) in the American college textbooks, there was no response to this comment.
This is not an easy problem which can be complained about or fixed.
This is normal.
Americans have a very positive view of Germany and its exploits in WWII and their worldview is very biased, as it would be with any population.
A good book to read:
The Myth Of The Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War by Ronald Smelser, Edward J. Davies II
@Reader
Do you have a source or example of this? If this is true it needs to be more than talked about.
No one talks about this but many college textbooks in the US contain positive views of Hitler, etc.
@John Galt IV
That was my first thought/suspicion when I saw the headline.
There is always this “confusion” around antisemitism – it is bad but we really need a good definition of it, and what about the freedom of speech…
For some reason, when it comes to “Islamophobia” everyone knows exactly what it is, there are no debates about its definition or the freedom of speech or even the existing law, and the Justice Department is always on the lookout for it and ready to combat it.
If these protests and student organizations were anti-Palestine – guess what would happen next?
They would probably close the university until further notice.
Hamas supporter Mahmoud Khalil arrested by ICE and DHS, awaiting being deported and having his Green Card cancelled. As Brigitte Gabriel states, One down…
While I am very happy with this policy, it needs a lot more volume and publicity than it is currently being aforded. Hopefully this will soon change.
@John Galt IV
Somehow, reading your comment, I was reminded of this scene between Edward G. Robinson and Alan Jenkins in the screw-ball black comedy, “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse.”
https://thelastdrivein.com/2018/11/29/the-amazing-dr-clitterhouse-1938-a-magnificent-specimen-of-pure-viciousness-pure-scientific-research-by-a-magnificent-screwball/
Radiok,
I went to Harvard almost 50 years ago. It’s a mess today.
They have a $50 billion endowment. They don’t need the money from the Washington DC. It’s nice but they don’t NEED it.
I last gave them money in 1981. “Never Again.”
Next up, Harvard, Yale, Wisconsin, Rutgers, etc. Why are we funding them anyway? That is not the job of the federal government to send taxpayer dollars to these institutions, nor is it one of their enumerated powers. Cancel them Leo! They’ve proven their leadership is not willing to protect their Jewish students.
Good, this needs to be done. Send them to their country. Let them do their protesting there, not here.