The cuts are “the first round of the measures”, it continued in the joint statement by the government authorities. Further reductions in state support for Columbia University, which amounts to around $ five billion, were therefore to be expected.
US Education Minister Linda McMahon accused the management of the renowned university of looking at the violent anti-Semitic riots on their campus too long. Since October 7, 2023, the day of the unprecedented robbery of the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas on Israel, Jewish students have been exposed to “incessant violence, intimidation and anti -Semitic salvage on the university site – and are ignored by those that they should actually protect,” said McMahon.
However, universities would have to “follow all federal laws against discrimination if they should receive government support,” she continued.
A university spokesman later said: “We will examine the announcement of the federal authorities and ensure that the government will work with the government to restore the federal funds for the Columbia.” The university takes its legal obligations seriously and is aware of how “serious” the announcement is. “We undertake to combat anti -Semitism and to ensure the security and well -being of our students, our lecturers and our staff,” added the spokesman.
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday to shorten the state funds for educational institutions that allowed “illegal demonstrations”. He also announced even more far -reaching steps. “Awilfers are detained or sent back to the country from which they came. American students are thrown out forever or, depending on the crime,” said Trump in his online service Truth Social.
Last year, numerous US universities, including Columbia University, were the scene of violent anti-Israeli protests around October 7, 2023 and the subsequent Gaza War. On Tuesday, more than 200 propalestinian activists demonstrated on the campus site. They gathered there on the occasion of a visit by the former Israeli head of government Naftali Bennett, who was at the university as part of a lecture.
