Columbia University caves to Trump with eye-popping settlement for civil rights violations of Jewish students
The University of Columbia announced significant concessions to Donald Trump, including paying $ 220 million to restore federal research money on the White House sanctions.
The university said that after the cancellation of the funds as part of the White House’s pressure on campus on anti -Semitism on campus, the Ivy League school would pay a compromise for three years.
In addition, the US will pay $ 21 million to solve the investigations of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
University President Claire Shipman, “ This agreement, constantly federal examination and institutional uncertainty after the future of a major step in the future, ” he said.
During the Israeli-Hamas War, which began in October 2023, the Trump administration attracted financing because it described the university as the non-silence of anti-Semitism on the campus.
Columbia later accepted a series of demands put forward by the Republican administration, including the university’s student disciplinary process and adopting a new definition of anti -Semitism.
Shipman, Wednesday’s agreement, which does not include the acceptance of the agreement, said the university has coded these reforms while maintaining the autonomy of the university.
The school was threatened by a loss of potential with billions of dollars of government support, including more than $ 400 million grants, which were canceled earlier this year.
The University of Columbia announced significant concessions to Donald Trump, including paying $ 220 million to restore federal research money through the White House.
In accordance with the agreement, the Ivy League School will pay a compromise for three years after the cancellation of funds as part of the White House’s pressure on anti -Semitism on campus.
“The settlement has been prepared carefully to protect the values that define us and to allow our basic research partnership with the federal government to get back to the way back,” Shipman said.
‘More importantly, it maintains our independence, which is a critical situation for academic excellence and scientific discovery, and is vital for public interest.’
As part of the agreement, Columbia accepted a series of changes previously announced in March; This, including the Middle East curriculum is ‘comprehensive and balanced’ and to assign a new faculty to the Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies.
He also promised to end the programs that encourage illegal efforts to achieve race -based results, nails, diversity goals or similar efforts.
The university will also have to report to a monitor that is sure that its programs’ illegal deeds’ goals’.
The pact comes after months of uncertainty and full negotiations in more than 270 universities.
President Donald was among the first goals of Trump’s pressure on pro -Palestinian campus protests and colleges, and claimed that he allowed Jewish students to be threatened and harassed.
Columbia’s own anti -Semitism task force found that Jewish students faced verbal harassment, exclusion and class humiliation during the spring demonstrations of 2024.
University President Claire Shipman (in the picture), “ This agreement is taking an important step after constant federal examination and institutional uncertainty.
During the Israeli-Hamas War, which began in October 2023, the Trump administration attracted financing because it described the university as the inability to silence its anti-Semitism on campus.
However, other Jewish students participated in the protests and claim that protest leaders did not target the Jews, but criticize the Israeli government and its war in Gaza.
Columbia’s leadership – a doner gate of three temporary presidents last year – declared that the campus climate should change.
There is also an agreement in the settlement to ask possible international students to ask questions designed to reveal the reasons for wanting to work in the United States. ‘
Even for 2025, it seems that the university cannot control the campus.
Only two months ago, Columbia suspended dozens of students and suspended the realms and others participating in anti -Israeli protests In the main library of the school.
Shocking videos published online showed dozens of people wearing keffiyehs, and received masks and signs that explode drums in a expanding room in the Butler Library.
After a Palestinian militant, which Israel accused of planning a large-scale attack, they repeated the anti-Israeli slogans for about an hour and renamed the Library of the Basel Al-Aaaj Popular University ‘library. According to the New York Times.
However, when low demonstrators tried to leave the library, it was blocked by security guards at Ivy League University unless they showed an appropriate school identity – led to a stance for hours.
Now, the Ivy League Institute in Manhattan has placed more than 65 students in a temporary suspension and banned 33 people, including affiliated institutions, such as Barnard College, and banned 33 people in the attempt to win good with Donald Trump.
Temporary suspension means that according to Columbia’s website, it usually means that a student cannot come to the campus, cannot attend courses or participate in other university activities.
The university refused to say how long disciplinary measures will last, and said that only decisions expect more investigations.
