And insofar as it ever was, the administration’s ever-tightening grip on Columbia is not about antisemitism — and it is not at Harvard University, where the specter of antisemitism is being used to threaten funding there just as it was at Columbia. With the administration now unleashing on Harvard and other schools sure to come soon, we are at a critical opportunity to come up for air and recognize that what is happening here under the auspices of rooting out “antisemitism” is, in fact, an assault on the American Dream. The Trump administration’s tired strategy is to turn us as Americans against each other in a divisive zero-sum game — to pit Democrat against Republican, the “elite” against the working class, the Jewish community against those calling to end the Palestinian genocide, the immigrant against the citizen.
Author: Allie Wong
Published at: 2025-04-01 21:02:21
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