5 Jewish senators accuse Trump of using antisemitism as ‘guise’ to attack universities - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A course correct on campus free speech

Last year’s pro-Palestinian protests were the continuation of a long history of political activism on college campuses, which, in my lifetime, included free speech demonstrations at UC Berkeley and the double tragedies at Kent State and Jackson State.  Much like those turbulent times, this latest chapter struck a chord with the American public, with 53% saying they disapproved of how campus demonstrations were handled. The steady erosion of publ…

Letter: 'The kind of people Trump’s people seem to like'

It is frankly astonishing to observe Forum opinion writers persist with employing oblique language to craft phony accusations of Trump administration's misconduct. A recent opinion is emblematic: “Accusing students, professors and whole universities of ‘antisemitism’ and of ‘material support for Hamas,’ the Trump administration is abducting people and deporting them . . . ” Readers are asked to take as fact an erroneous allegation that the Trump…

Many Jews Say Trump Is Politicizing the Fight against Antisemitism

The Trump administration declared last week that “harassment of Jewish students is intolerable” as it suspended $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University. The school’s president, Alan Garber, fired back Monday that “as a Jew and as an American,” he is well aware of rising antisemitism but that defunding Harvard is no solution.

Savage: Schumer Should Stand With Jews, Not Harvard

Michael Savage, host of “Savage Nation,” on Friday ridiculed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker in the U.S., for supporting Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration for freezing $2.2 billion in federal research funding. “I’m standing with fellow Jewish @SenateDems to demand Trump stop disgracefully weaponizing antisemitism to attack universities,” Schumer wrote Thursday in a post on X. “He…

Political hypocrisy under guise of broad Jewish coalition

A letter opposing the Trump administration's actions to counter antisemitism on campus doesn’t pass the smell test.The post Political hypocrisy under guise of broad Jewish coalition appeared first on JNS.org.

5 Jewish senators accuse Trump of using antisemitism as ‘guise’ to attack universities

(JTA) — Five Jewish senators, including Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, have signed a letter accusing the Trump administration of using antisemitism as a “guise” to attack universities. The letter from the five Democrats comes as the Trump administration has threatened universities with billions of dollars in funding cuts, ostensibly over their handling of campus antisemitism, and has arrested a series of pro-Palestinian student activists and r…