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| Linda McMahon, US Education Secretary |
This is no mere bureaucratic shuffle, but a reckoning for those elite bastions of learning that have allowed the poison of Jew-hatred to seep into their not so hallowed halls.
“The department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite US campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless anti-Semitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year,” declared Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Monday, her words cutting through the fog of moral equivocation like a blade. “US colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by US taxpayers. That support is a privilege, and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal anti-discrimination laws.”
One can almost hear the echoes of a bygone era when such plain speaking was the norm, not the exception.
McMahon named 55 institutions—public and private—in this latest salvo, a roster that includes the likes of Harvard University, Swarthmore College, Drexel University, and Princeton University. These are not new names to those who have tracked the rising tide of anti-Semitic filth lapping at the shores of American academia.
McMahon named 55 institutions—public and private—in this latest salvo, a roster that includes the likes of Harvard University, Swarthmore College, Drexel University, and Princeton University. These are not new names to those who have tracked the rising tide of anti-Semitic filth lapping at the shores of American academia.
At Harvard, the rot runs deep.
Since Hamas’s barbaric invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, the university has become a grotesque carnival of anti-Semitic excess. Its law school student government issued a resolution falsely accusing Israel of genocide—a libel as old as it is vicious. Students quoted terrorists during an “Apartheid Week” event in April, while dozens of students and faculty joined an illegal pro-Hamas encampment, rubbing shoulders with a group that peddled an anti-Semitic cartoon straight out of Der Stürmer’s playbook. Many openly cheered Hamas’s atrocities—sexual assault, child abduction, the full medieval panoply—while a mob, led by the president of the Harvard Law Review no less, hounded a Jewish student, shrieking “Shame! Shame! Shame!” into his ears.
Harvard fought like a cornered rat to discredit lawsuits alleging its complicity in this discriminatory cesspit, eventually settling some out of court. But Shabbos Kestenbaum, a graduate of the Harvard Divinity and with a backbone of steel, refused to let the university slink away from accountability.
Swarthmore College offers its own tableau of disgrace. There, Students for Justice in Palestine stormed Parrish Hall garbed as Hamas fighters, their faces swathed in keffiyehs like latter-day bandits. They bellowed slogans through bullhorns, battered locked doors, and tried to breach offices barricaded against their fury. Their comrades smuggled food past security’s lockdown, while others sparked a physical clash with guards, hurling expletives like shrapnel. The administration finally barred SJP from campus, but only after the damage was done—a belated gesture that reeks of cowardice.
Drexel University in Philadelphia saw its own “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in May, a spectacle so overrun with outsiders that the campus had to be locked down. Weeks earlier, the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Jewish Life was defaced by cowardly masked vandals who tore away letters spelling out Perelman’s name—an act of petty spite amid a broader surge of antisemitic hate crimes across the nation.
Then there’s Princeton, where the Department of Near Eastern Studies peddles a book accusing the Israel Defense Forces of “maiming” Palestinians and harvesting their organs. This is not scholarship; it is blood libel dressed up as academic inquiry, a sinister echo of medieval anti-Semitic tropes. The International Legal Forum rightly called it out for what it is: a conspiratorial smear designed to inflame hatred.
The Trump administration, since taking office in January, has moved with a speed and decisiveness that shames its predecessors. On Friday, it yanked $400 million in funding from Columbia University, a sharp rebuke to a school accused of sheltering antisemitic faculty, students, and staff. Before that, President Trump issued an executive order that promises to wield “all appropriate legal tools to prosecute, remove, or otherwise … hold to account perpetrators of unlawful antisemitic harassment and violence.”
Swarthmore College offers its own tableau of disgrace. There, Students for Justice in Palestine stormed Parrish Hall garbed as Hamas fighters, their faces swathed in keffiyehs like latter-day bandits. They bellowed slogans through bullhorns, battered locked doors, and tried to breach offices barricaded against their fury. Their comrades smuggled food past security’s lockdown, while others sparked a physical clash with guards, hurling expletives like shrapnel. The administration finally barred SJP from campus, but only after the damage was done—a belated gesture that reeks of cowardice.
Drexel University in Philadelphia saw its own “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in May, a spectacle so overrun with outsiders that the campus had to be locked down. Weeks earlier, the Raymond G. Perelman Center for Jewish Life was defaced by cowardly masked vandals who tore away letters spelling out Perelman’s name—an act of petty spite amid a broader surge of antisemitic hate crimes across the nation.
Then there’s Princeton, where the Department of Near Eastern Studies peddles a book accusing the Israel Defense Forces of “maiming” Palestinians and harvesting their organs. This is not scholarship; it is blood libel dressed up as academic inquiry, a sinister echo of medieval anti-Semitic tropes. The International Legal Forum rightly called it out for what it is: a conspiratorial smear designed to inflame hatred.
The Trump administration, since taking office in January, has moved with a speed and decisiveness that shames its predecessors. On Friday, it yanked $400 million in funding from Columbia University, a sharp rebuke to a school accused of sheltering antisemitic faculty, students, and staff. Before that, President Trump issued an executive order that promises to wield “all appropriate legal tools to prosecute, remove, or otherwise … hold to account perpetrators of unlawful antisemitic harassment and violence.”
One provision targets “alien” student extremists for deportation—those who have lent intellectual and material succor to groups like Hamas, fueling the campus chaos. A federal judge in Manhattan has stalled this in one case, involving a Columbia alumnus nabbed by ICE for orchestrating the Hamilton Hall takeover last spring.
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Trump, unbowed, took to Truth Social: “This is the first of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other universities across the country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, antisemitism, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country—never to return again.”
Here is a government that grasps what the chattering classes refuse to see: that this is not a matter of hurt feelings or academic squabbles, but a civilizational struggle against those who would cheer the slaughter of innocents and call it justice. The universities, bloated with taxpayer largesse, have had their day of reckoning deferred too long. Let it come now, and let it be thorough.
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Here is a government that grasps what the chattering classes refuse to see: that this is not a matter of hurt feelings or academic squabbles, but a civilizational struggle against those who would cheer the slaughter of innocents and call it justice. The universities, bloated with taxpayer largesse, have had their day of reckoning deferred too long. Let it come now, and let it be thorough.
