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now deteriorating into centers of radical- ism, antisemitism, and anti-American propaganda. With pro-Hamas demonstrations and
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professors advocating divisive race and gender-based ideologies, Trump believes that colleges have drifted from their pur- pose and failed the taxpayers who sup- port them, as well as the parents who placed their trust in them. “Colleges have gotten hundreds of
billions of dollars from hardworking tax- payers, and now we are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institu- tions once and for all,” he said during his presidential campaign. “The time has come to reclaim our
once great educational institutions from the radical left.” Five months into his second term in of-
fi ce, Trump has employed the full weight of his executive branch powers to fulfi ll his pledge. However, reversing the trend of left-
wing extremism at the nation’s elite schools, which critics allege has persisted for generations, may be one of his most daunting domestic challenges. For several decades, universities have
been accused of acting as bastions of hard-left ideology. However, tensions were reignited af-
ter Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which killed up to 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and sparked a war in Gaza. As the confl ict intensifi ed, campuses
became battlegrounds for pro-Palestin- ian activists. At Columbia University, students es-
tablished illegal tent encampments. They chanted slogans like “From the river to the sea,” which Jewish students see as a dog whistle for Israel’s destruction. The chaos soon spread to Harvard,
Yale, University of California, Los Ange- les, and other schools — all of which ex- perienced similar unrest, including the
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resident donald J. Trump has drawn the line on Amer- ica’s universities, once celebrated for promoting intellec- tual freedom and patriotic values but
“Tenured professors at elite schools are 97% radical far-left Democrats.”
widespread distribution of fl yers embla- zoned with logos of Hamas. A December 2023 congressional hear-
ing showcased the dysfunction as then- Harvard President Claudine Gay evaded questions about whether calls for Jewish genocide violated campus rules. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., whose questioning exposed Gay and ultimately led to her resignation, said that the Har- vard president’s evasion was emblematic of a long-standing systemic issue affl ict- ing America’s once prestigious institu- tions of higher learning. “What has happened is sad,” Stefanik
told Newsmax. “We know that tenured professors at elite schools are over 97% radical, far-left Democrats — who are, in many cases, pro-Hamas. “But in recent months, it has gotten
— Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.
RADICALS IN ROBES More than 100 faculty from Columbia and
Barnard condemned the arrests and suspensions of “peaceful” student protesters after Jewish students were harassed during last summer’s violent Gaza Solidarity Encampment in which New York police arrested 108 troublemakers.
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