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President Donald Trump decision For the cancellation of $ 400 million federal scholarships from Columbia University for its culture of anti-Semitism, it should be a moment of self-reflexion for leftists and liberals around the world.
As an alumin of Columbia University with a master’s degree in international affairs, it was painful to watch Senator John Kennedy, R-L. Chuck, rrrrrrrrrrrrra. Proceedings I covered as journalist Asra Nomani testimony Before the committee, warning senators to the “industry” that encourages anti-Jewish hatred.
Although some may claim that violent protests against Jews and Israel are trivial compared to thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza, a decline in Jewish students at US universities is significant and lies in the center of this conflict. At the hearing, witnesses testified that anti -Semitism increased to the United States, especially after Hamas’ terrorist attack on October 7th in Israel. Kennedy emphasized Columbia’s historical anti -Semitism and that hatred of Jews is normalized within the Dei Biden Administration program. Watching anti-Jewish violence in Columbia 2023. From India scared me.
Muslim journalist Asra Nomani testified before the Senate Committee who questioned anti -Semitism. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez
As a student of Columbia in the late 2000s, it is obvious to me that many academics and student groups have more sympathized with the perpetrators of terror than victims. In 2007, they hosted the then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, not the Iranian woman subjected to forced hijab. The following year, they were silent when the militants were training in Pakistan on November 26, 2008.
In 2009, left -wing and Islamic student unions closed the university to cancel the conversation of conservative Dutch politician Geert Wilders. I was among the few who attended his lecture, asking him a difficult question about his anti -Islamic views. However, the student mob wanted him instead of dealing with a discussion. This intolerance to different views was obvious in Columbia, the alleged temple of free speech.
Although the signs were there, I never imagined that the left-wing-Islamic Nexus would push the campus in the spiral of violence in Columbia, reminiscent of developing countries. I never thought the IVy League campus would express scenes of violent threats by Islamist, as seen at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India in 2016. When Kennedy recalled the attack on Jewish students in Columbia in 2023, I felt deeply problematic.
The division of India and Palestinian territories have historical parallels. After World War II, the British withdrew from their colonies, creating new States of Pakistan and Israel. While Arab Muslims violently opposed the creation of Israel, India accepted the British division, giving much of its territory to create Pakistan. Unlike the Arabs, new Indian leaders chose Gandhi’s philosophy of Ahims or non -violence, and allowed Muslims to bloom in their country. However, the Pakistani army chose jihad against India, destroying the country for over 75 years. In the meantime, the Arabs and Iranians used Palestinian Muslims as a livestock to fight Israel, maintaining terrorism and conflict. The existence of Jews, Arabs and Iranians is possible, but hatred and violence continue.
The world of no country has gained as much condemnation as Israel around the world, and no conflict has attracted as much sympathy as Palestinian question. Muslims around the world rarely express the same sympathy about the genocide of Bangladeski Muslims by the Pakistani army or oppression of Muslims in Islamic theocracy. Human rights organizations, advocacy groups and research tanks spent billions demonizing Israel over seven decades, which intimidated the evil evil design.
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At the Senate hearing, Nomani recounted the beheaded head of her friend and colleague from Wall Street Journal Daniel PearlPakistani terrorists who saw his Jewish identity, American citizenship and Israeli roots as a crime. She discovered that a network of about 1,500 organization spreads anti -Semitic propaganda and radicalized young people in the US against Jews. I testified this hatred on the eve of the hearing, talking to Anti-Israeli activists from the PINK group code in the hall of the Senate outside the hearing room. Some wore pink shirts and Palestinian keffiyeh, advocating one state solution and opposing Israel as a Jewish state.
Two years ago, the New York Times investigation discovered Chinese funding, led by American millionaire Neville Roy Singham, pumping money in liberal media, research tanks and advocacy groups, including Code Pink. Singham is married to Code Pink Jodie Evans co -founder. In India, this network funded NewsClick and other platforms to promote the anti -india program. In the United States, organizations like Code Pink took campaigns against Israel and the USA
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Nomani called anti -Semitism in the United States as a long war of “malignant foreign influence.” Bigoticism against Jews at Columbia and other universities suggests that foreign support mobilized this opinion. As this hatred is armed, the conflict in Gaza will continue.
President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel $ 400 million of federal funding Columbia is a good start. Furthermore, his government must prosecute individuals and organizations involved in the weapon of anti -Semitic feelings. Win in America is a win for the world.
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