Trump’s All-or-Nothing Approach to Campus Antisemitism

Trump’s all-or-nothing approach to campus antisemitism

Seven months into the second Trump term, it’s clear that many of the country’s top universities are scared of President Donald Trump.  The schools rely on federal funding to power much of the research that has made them into academic powerhouses, so if that funding dries up — a punishment, the Trump administration says, for universities’ failure to deal with antisemitism — their work will be imperiled. As a result, some universities have taken p…

Feldman: Trump is using antisemitism to go after Harvard

Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman doesn’t downplay the reality of antisemitic violence in the US: “These things are real and they have to be taken very seriously.” But he draws a sharp line between legitimate concern and political opportunism.“There is a flavor of using antisemitism as an excuse to go after Harvard,” he says. Feldman recounts a colleague whose science funding was cut due to alleged antisemitism on campus—despite being part of a…