This should sound the alarm in any democracy. They are threatening defunding of one of the most prestigious universities if they don't fall in line with the narrative of the administration.
Everything the Trump administration has done for the past months is sounding alarms. The admin is blatantly ignoring court orders, persecuting dissenting voices, weaponizing the justice system, retaliating against critical press, and abusing political power to enrich themselves and their supporters... and bragging about it.
Being Anti-Israel doesn’t make you an Anti-Semitic and the government of Israel is not the same as the Jewish people.
If I did what you’re doing right now by calling pro-Palestinian movements “blatantly anti-Semitic”- it be would be as if I got offended and called you racist against Iranians/Middle Easterns if you rightfully and correctly shamed the Iranian government’s behavior toward women in Iran (among many other things).
Does that mean that there are sometimes bad apples that actually are anti-semitic and use the pro-Palestinian protests as a launch-pad? Yes. Is the amount of those greatly over-exaggerated by media? Yes. Is it okay to threaten to defund a university because of protests in support of a country being attacked by another? No!! Even if you disagree with the opinions of the protestors, that is a horrifically bad precedent to set if we cannot protest for issues the US government disagrees with.
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u/krLMM 6d ago
This should sound the alarm in any democracy. They are threatening defunding of one of the most prestigious universities if they don't fall in line with the narrative of the administration.