Columbia U knuckled under to Trump and expelled anti-Semites from campus within SIX DAYS after Trump cancelled $400M in federal funds to the university.
How long will it take for the UH system to get rid of its’ anti-Semites?
The UH system has already been hit with federal funding cuts.
Here’s the story in three parts:
March 7: Trump Hacks Away At Taxpayer Funding For Ivy League School With Pro-Hamas Protester Problem
by Hudson Crozier, Daily Caller, March 07, 2025
The Trump administration is reportedly cutting $400 million in federal funding for Columbia University as pro-Hamas protesters continue creating chaos for the Ivy League school.
The Free Press first reported the cuts Friday after protesters took over a building, displayed terrorist propaganda and allegedly assaulted an employee at the Columbia-affiliated Barnard College starting Feb 26. The funding cuts are part of a larger, ongoing review the Trump administration is conducting in response to Columbia’s pro-Hamas protest encampment in 2024 and reports of rampant antisemitism on campus.
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“Relentless anti-Semitic racism on college campuses will not be tolerated, and Columbia University will be held accountable for their refusal to protect students equally,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The newly formed federal task force to “Combat Anti-Semitism” is also reviewing federal grants commitments and contracts, the White House spokesperson said.
“The government’s Anti-[Semitism] Task Force is considering Stop Work Orders for over $50 million in contracts with the federal government and will review more than $5 billion in grant commitments to ensure the university is in compliance with federal regulations,” Fields said, reiterating an announcement the task force made Monday.
New York police arrested nine people on Wednesday who occupied Barnard College’s Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning, the Columbia Spectator reported. An anti-Israel mob also swept Barnard’s Milbank Hall the previous Wednesday and “assaulted” an employee, the school said. Police said they were “responding to a bomb threat” when entering the campus, though no details were provided of the threat.
Barnard College did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF. Barnard College is located across the street from Columbia’s main campus in New York City.
Columbia’s main campus deflected responsibility in a statement online, saying Barnard is “a separate institution from Columbia University, although it is affiliated” and that “Barnard’s leadership and security team” would respond to the situation. “The disruption of academic activities is not acceptable conduct,” Columbia said.
Before the arrests, Barnard President Laura Rosenbury called into the occupied Milstein building and offered to negotiate with protesters if three students would meet with her “unmasked,” according to the Columbia Spectator. The crowd declined her offer after she refused to promise no punishment for students involved in the sit-in.
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside Barnard College in New York on February 27, 2025, the morning after pro-Palestinian student protesters stormed a Barnard College building to protest the expulsion last month of two students who interrupted a university class on Israel.
The chaos originally started Feb. 26 when outraged protesters responded to Barnard expelling two students who disrupted a class on Israeli history in January. It’s unclear how many Barnard students have been involved in the incidents that followed. (RELATED: University Hosts Speakers Denying Hamas Rapes, Praising Terrorism While Under Antisemitism Probe)
Concerned Columbia student Elisha Baker posted Wednesday on X that protesters were “handing out” copies of a Hamas document, “Our Narrative … Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” in which the group justified committing the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust on Oct. 7, 2023, in Israel.
“This is terrorist support in its rawest and most obvious form,” Baker said, showing pictures of the Hamas pamphlet.
Trump’s antisemitism task force said on Feb. 28 that Columbia University was one of ten schools federal officials will visit to investigate their efforts to uphold Jewish students’ civil rights.
“All Federal Funding will stop for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,” Trump said in a social media post Tuesday.
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March 9, 2025: Columbia University Appears To Change Its Tune After Trump Slashes $400 Million In Federal Grants
by John Oyewal, Daily Caller, March 09, 2025
Columbia University says it will prioritize fighting antisemitism on campus just after the federal government canceled federal funding worth about $400 million, according to reports.
The New York-based university’s interim president Katrina Armstrong told the university community Friday evening via email that it would work with the Trump administration to address the problem of antisemitism, the Columbia Spectator reported.
“Antisemitism, violence, discrimination, harassment, and other behaviors that violate our values or disrupt teaching, learning, or research are antithetical to our mission,” Armstrong wrote. “We must continue to work to address any instances of these unacceptable behaviors on our campus. We must work every day to do better.”
“To that end, Columbia can, and will, continue to take serious action toward combatting antisemitism on our campus. This is our number one priority,” Armstrong wrote.
The Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, and the U.S. General Services Administration canceled the massive federal grants and contracts to Columbia University Friday in “the first round of action” against the university, citing “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” More cancelations could follow, the agencies jointly said.
The federal Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism had informed Armstrong March 3 that it was reviewing Columbia’s federal funding amid investigations into possible civil rights violations but added that “Columbia has not responded to the Task Force,” hence the cancelation of funding.
The funding cuts would “touch nearly every corner of the University” and have caused “anxiety and concern for our entire community,” Armstrong wrote. (RELATED: Trump Hacks Away At Taxpayer Funding For Ivy League School With Pro-Terrorist Protester Problem)
“There is no question that the cancellation of these funds will immediately impact research and other critical functions of the University, impacting students, faculty, staff, research, and patient care,” Armstrong told the university community.
Nevertheless, the university’s “mission as a great research university does not waver,” she added.
Armstrong said when she became interim president in August 2024, she “knew Columbia needed a reset from the previous year and the chaos of encampments and protests on our campus” and “needed to acknowledge and repair the damage to our Jewish students, who were targeted, harassed, and made to feel unsafe or unwelcome on our campus last spring,” FOX News reported.
Armstrong also tellingly admitted that Columbia University’s disciplinary process “previously only existed on paper,” in an apparent swipe at erstwhile Columbia President Minouche Shafik, according to FOX News. Shafik resigned August 14, 2024 after just one year at the helm.
“The only way we can achieve that goal is to look honestly and deeply at not just our achievements, but at our failures and shortcomings, and ask ourselves how we can do better,” Armstrong wrote, according to the Columbia Spectator.
Armstrong called for “a unified Columbia, one that remains focused on our mission and our values.”
Columbia University was the epicenter of pro-Palestine protests that gripped over 30 U.S. universities. The protests followed the Oct. 7, 2023 lightning terror attack by Gaza’s Hamas on Israel that precipitated Israel’s devastating “Operation Swords of Iron” response against Hamas and the resignation of the Palestinian government.
Khymani James, a Columbia University student, earned a ban from the campus for saying in part that “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
The protests were so disruptive the Ivy League university canceled its main commencement ceremony.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) entered the Columbia University campus at the request of Shafik, cleared a protest encampment, and made several arrests.
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March 13, 2025: Columbia University Won’t Say How Many Students Were Booted Over Pro-Hamas Protests
by Jaryn Crouson, Daily Caller, March 13, 2025
Columbia University announced Thursday, March 13, 2025, it has suspended, expelled and revoked the degrees of students involved in the seizure of a campus building in 2024.
The violent campus protests that overtook the campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas War on Oct. 7, 2023 culminated in several arrests at the university and the overtaking of Hamilton Hall in the spring semester of 2024, during which a university employee was allegedly held hostage.
A university spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation they could not confirm the names or number of students affected by the punishments due to privacy concerns, but said the university “immediately began disciplinary processes” following the spring incident.
“Today, the Columbia University Judicial Board determined findings and issued sanctions to students ranging from multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring,” the university’s announcement reads. “With respect to other events taking place last spring, the UJB’s determinations recognized previously imposed disciplinary action. The return of suspended students will be overseen by Columbia’s University Life Office. Columbia is committed to enforcing the University’s Rules and Policies and improving our disciplinary processes.”
After investigations into the university’s response to the protests determined the university did not adequately punish students for their roles in the events, the Trump administration announced in early March it would revoke $400 million in federal funding from the university. Columbia quickly changed its tune and insisted it would make an effort to fight antisemitism on campus.
The Department of Education on Tuesday sent letters to 60 institutions warning them that noncompliance with civil rights laws would lead to similar enforcement action being taken against them. All 60 universities currently have open investigations or complaints filed against them relating to antisemitic incidents.
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