This is what I worried about: The Trump administration would just create an enemies lists of universities on the pretext of battling anti-semitism, and threaten them with financial collapse. As universities fall in line, the administration removes any dissent from higher education. - ThreadSky

donmoyn.bsky.social • 8 hours ago

This is what I worried about: The Trump administration would just create an enemies lists of universities on the pretext of battling anti-semitism, and threaten them with financial collapse. As universities fall in line, the administration removes any dissent from higher education.

Reposted from Alexander Tin

From HHS joint press release yesterday with GSA and Department of Ed

"Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism is considering Stop Work Orders for $51.4 million in contracts between Columbia University and the Federal Government"

www.hhs.gov/about/news/2...

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dslakter.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Capitulating won't get them anything in the long-term.

loganws.bsky.social•6 hours ago

it's just like tariffs: they've found a lever that works, and they're going to keep pressing it to get everything they want (once they figure out everything they want). No trans/black/DEI/minority professors? Nothing but jobs training? There's no end to the MAGAfication possible with the money lever

pottymouthpup.bsky.social•5 hours ago

and it continues to define antisemitism as "voicing any disagreement with Israel's actions" which isn't antisemitism & allows actual antisemitism to be disregarded

tominwindsor.bsky.social•7 hours ago

And at the end he can blame the Jews for all of it.

ianthal.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Do I think the Republicans are principled opponents of antisemitism? Of course not, for most It is a cynical partisan move.

But far too many liberals also failed to hold the line against antisemitism when the going went tough.

jjo42069.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Damn, that is a really stupid false equivalence to draw. Embarrassing shit.

jonnypants.bsky.social•7 hours ago

incorrect. What happened was a lot of dishonest accusations by college admin and politicians, using a bastardized definition of the term, to brand anyone supporting Palestine as antisemitic.

ianthal.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Supporting violence against Jews is by definition antisemitic.

The problem is that people who support violence against Jews hate being called out for it, because they think it should be normalized.

jonnypants.bsky.social•9 minutes ago

Does violence against Palestinians matter?

solzyatthemovies.com•7 hours ago

Yup. I'm trans and lost my LGBTQ/trans spaces because of left-wing antisemitism. The past almost 17 months have been awful.

ianthal.bsky.social•1 hour ago

A lot of my LGBTQ Jewish friends have been saying the same thing for years, but it got exponentially worse since October 7, 2023.

solzyatthemovies.com•1 hour ago

Yeah. I knew it was bad in 2017 but nowhere close to the extent that I saw in 2023. A former friend chewed me out when I told him he was spreading antisemitic blood libels. Way too many LGBTQ folks bought into the Hamas narrative. The cognitive dissonance is overwhelmingly missing.

gspiggott.bsky.social•7 hours ago

So Elon Musk won't be able to give speeches on college campuses.

flyingpace.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The "Trump administration" began with Nazi salutes. The professoriate, administrators, etc. should know that any compliance with this regime (indeed anything short of calls for its immediate end) is itself antisemitic, racist, etc., and will sink reputations in the decades after Trump is gone.

silenceladus.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Nixon would pay much more than $5 million to be here and live 5 minutes of this (regime)

sparky342.bsky.social•8 hours ago

As bad as this is, I think it needs ro happen now. People are going to hurt and those that wanted us hurt are going to feel it the worst. It'd going to be s hard lesson learned for stupid and hateful fol6

nathyzn.bsky.social•1 hour ago

It reminds me a lot about my colleges history. It was invaded by the police in horses during the dictatorship in Brazil.

lunatunes210909.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The U.S. has become an authoritarian state just like China, Russia, Hungary, Turkey and others. Krasnov loves his fellow dictators.

bevball.bsky.social•6 hours ago

if you can, sent students to universities outside the US -
Canada, Scotland, England. I know a kid at university in Madrid.
Get them outta here and hope they legally attach themselves to someone from another country…cuz this place is about to blow.

ahirai.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I used to view Trump as supremely incompetent. But recently, I've come to the view that he is extremely competent at wanton destruction.

bogyankee.bsky.social•6 hours ago

We've seen this happen before, got the permanent scars, learned nothing.

https://academic.oup.com/book/10925

saudades.bsky.social•8 hours ago

anyone in their right mind knew what lipstadt, torres, fetterman, schumer and the rest of the anti-semitism criers were gonna end up doing. disgusting

miasma667.bsky.social•8 hours ago

they already fell in line last year

noahdahl.bsky.social•7 hours ago

https://aaua.org/about-us/

Here is an organization that seems relevant to this topic.

repetitiveuser.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Conservatives' wet dream for five decades minimum

maisany.bsky.social•8 hours ago

The sad thing is, Columbia probably has the resources to weather this, but they won’t. Much smaller, less well off institutions are the ones who will suffer.

solzyatthemovies.com•7 hours ago

Too bad they won't do anything to take action against right-wing antisemitism. Camp Auschwitz guy and the folks wearing 6MWE shirts got pardoned as soon he came back. That's on top of other bigots welcomed into the admin.

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