The administration of the American president Donald Trump announced yesterday, Friday, March 7, 2025 that it would suppress $ 400 million in federal subsidies allocated to the University of Columbia due to “the inaction of the academic institution in the face of continuous harassment of Jewish students” during the demonstrations against the Israeli occupation.
The Trump administration announced the “immediate abolition” of $ 400 million in federal subsidies on Friday at Columbia Private University in New York, one of the oldest and more selective American universities. She is accused of inaction facing “anti-Semitic acts” on her campus, targeting pro-Palestinian demonstrations against the war between Israel and Hamas.
Four government agencies announced in a statement the immediate cancellation of approximately $ 400 million in federal subsidies and contracts at the University of Columbia due to what they described as “continuous negligence in the face of the persistent harassment of Jewish students”.
“These deletions represent the first series of actions and others should follow,” write four federal agencies in a press release, which denounce “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students”.
A press release published on Friday by the United States General Administration Administration said that this funding reduction was the “first stage of action”, and that other financial cancellations were expected to follow.
SHALOM Columbia: The Trump Admin, LED by @USEDGOV and the Task Force to Fight Antisemism (@thejusticedept, @HHSGOV, & @USGSA), has canceled ~ $ 400m in federal grants to @columbia over its facts to protect Jewish Students from antisemitic harassment. pic.twitter.com/cavoxbhhvx— The White House (@Whitehouse) March 7, 2025
It should be noted that many American universities have expressed their solidarity with Gaza and organized student demonstrations against massacres and atrocities committed by the occupation in the Gaza Strip, including the University of Columbia, which “disturbed” the White House under the Biden administration, which then threatened to withdraw funding.
The University of Columbia had become an epicenter of demonstrations against Israeli bombing in Gaza and the support of the Biden administration in Israel. At the call of its president, who has since resigned, New York police had dislodged Manu Militari a few dozen activists and students on April 30, 2024, and the great graduation ceremony had been canceled in the face of persistent tensions.
