[This article first appeared at Common Dreams on April 18, 2025.]
While Columbia University capitulated to Trump’s demands, Harvard is offering U.S. institutions a lesson in fighting back.
Harvard University is providing a lesson that most children learn in elementary school but many leaders of America’s most important institutions have forgotten: The only effective way to deal with a bully is to fight back.
Trump’s Pretext
Columbia University was the first target in Trump’s disingenuous crusade against antisemitism. Disingenuous because he claimed that the school’s failures caused Jewish students to feel unsafe. His supposed remedy – withholding $400 million in federal funds – is a non sequitur.
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The Belly of the Beast 