Summary
US universities are bracing for funding cuts and investigations as President-elect Trump and his allies target them in their anti-“woke” campaign, using the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism, to justify crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism.
Measures include threatening federal funding, revoking accreditation, and pressuring institutions to suppress protests.
Critics warn these efforts will chill free speech, stifle academic inquiry, and escalate censorship.
Civil liberties groups and educators vow to resist these attacks on higher education and political expression.
remember kids, a protest without the threat of escalation is no protest at all.
Exactly, the phrase “violence is never the answer” breaks down pretty quickly when your adversary is not only okay with using violence, but opens with it.
Passive action against violent people facilitates oppression.
It’s like the George Carlin skit. They need people who are just educated enough to run the machinery of society but also just dumb enough to not question anything.
Measures include threatening federal funding, revoking accreditation, and pressuring institutions to suppress protests.
I thought someone literally recorded a clip of UofM’s Santa Ono claiming all the above for as far back as the protests started, which is why most universities already cracked down in their student body.
This appears to be a global push. Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, all of them are suddenly want to ban criticism of Israel from their universities.
