As a Columbia alum, I support President Trump's move to pull federal funds

President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel $400 cardinal successful national grants from Columbia University for its civilization of antisemitism should beryllium a infinitesimal of self-reflection for leftists and liberals worldwide. 

As an alumna of Columbia University with a master’s grade successful planetary affairs, it was  achy to ticker Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., shame my alma mater connected Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, titled, "Never to Be Silent: Stemming the Tide of Antisemitism successful America," chaired by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. I covered the proceedings arsenic writer Asra Nomani testified earlier the committee, informing the senators astir an "industry" fomenting anti-Jewish hate.

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While immoderate whitethorn reason that convulsive protests against Jews and Israel connected American campuses are trivial compared to the thousands of Palestinians killed successful Gaza, the diminution of information for Jewish students successful American universities is important and lies astatine the bosom of this conflict. At the hearing, witnesses testified that antisemitism has risen successful the U.S., particularly aft Hamas’s Oct. 7 panic onslaught successful Israel. Kennedy highlighted Columbia’s humanities antisemitism and however hatred of Jews has been normalized nether the Biden administration’s DEI program. Watching anti-Jewish unit astatine Columbia successful 2023 from India horrified me.

Muslim writer Asra Nomani testified earlier a Senate committee probing antisemitism. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

As a pupil astatine Columbia successful the precocious 2000s, it was evident to maine that galore academics and pupil groups sympathized much with perpetrators of panic than victims. In 2007, they hosted then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, not Iranian women subjected to enforced hijab. The adjacent year, they were soundless erstwhile militants trained successful Pakistan attacked India connected Nov. 26, 2008.

In 2009, leftist and Islamic pupil unions unopen down the assemblage to cancel a speech by blimpish Dutch person Geert Wilders. I was among the fewer who attended his lecture, asking him a hard question astir his anti-Islam views. However, a mob of students heckled him alternatively of engaging successful debate. This intolerance for differing viewpoints was evident astatine Columbia, a expected temple of escaped speech.

Though the signs were there, I ne'er imagined the leftist-Islamist nexus astatine Columbia would propulsion the field into a spiral of violence, reminiscent of processing countries. I ne'er thought Ivy League campuses would grounds scenes of convulsive threats by Islamists, arsenic seen astatine Jawaharlal Nehru University successful India successful 2016. When Kennedy recalled assaults connected Jewish students astatine Columbia successful 2023, I felt profoundly troubled.

The partition of India and the Palestinian territories person humanities parallels. After World War II, the British withdrew from their colonies, creating the caller states of Pakistan and Israel. While Arab Muslims violently opposed the instauration of Israel, India accepted the British partition, giving a ample information of its territory to make Pakistan. Unlike the Arabs, India’s caller leaders chose Gandhi’s doctrine of ahimsa, oregon non-violence, and allowed Muslims to flourish successful their ain country. However, Pakistan’s Army chose jihad against India, ruining the state implicit 75 years. Meanwhile, Arabs and Iranians person utilized Palestinian Muslims arsenic fodder to combat Israel, perpetuating coercion and conflict. Co-existence among Jews, Arabs and Iranians is possible, but hatred and unit continue.

Worldwide, nary state has drawn arsenic overmuch condemnation arsenic Israel, and nary struggle has drawn arsenic overmuch sympathy arsenic the Palestinian issue. Muslims worldwide seldom explicit the aforesaid sympathy for the genocide of Bangladeshi Muslims by the Pakistani Army oregon the oppression of Muslims successful Islamic theocracies. Human rights organizations, advocacy groups, and deliberation tanks person spent billions demonizing Israel implicit 7 decades, which reeks of a sinister design.

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At the Senate hearing, Nomani recounted the beheading of her person and Wall Street Journal colleague, Daniel Pearl, by Pakistani terrorists who saw his Jewish identity, American citizenship, and Israeli roots arsenic a crime. She revealed that a web of astir 1,500 organizations spreads antisemitic propaganda and radicalizes younker successful the U.S. against Jews. I witnessed this hatred up of the hearing, speaking to anti-Israel activists from the radical Code Pink successful the Senate hallway extracurricular the proceeding room. Some wore pinkish shirts and Palestinian keffiyehs, advocating a one-state solution and opposing Israel arsenic a Jewish state.

Two years ago, a New York Times probe exposed Chinese funding, led by American millionaire Neville Roy Singham, pumping wealth into wide media, deliberation tanks and advocacy groups, including Code Pink. Singham is joined to Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans. In India, this web funded NewsClick and different platforms to beforehand an anti-India agenda. In the U.S., organizations similar Code Pink person led campaigns against Israel and the U.S.

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Nomani referred to antisemitism successful the U.S. arsenic a agelong warfare of "malign overseas influence". The bigotry against Jews astatine Columbia and different universities suggests overseas enactment mobilizing this sentiment. As this hatred is weaponized, the struggle successful Gaza volition continue.

President Donald Trump's determination to cancel $400 cardinal successful national backing to Columbia is simply a bully start. Next, his authorities indispensable prosecute individuals and organizations progressive successful weaponizing antisemitic sentiments. A triumph successful America is simply a triumph for the world.

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