Columbia University announced Wednesday it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus.
Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay a $200 million settlement over three years, the university said. It will also pay $21 million to resolve alleged civil rights violations against Jewish employees that occurred following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the White House said.
Columbia has agreed to a series of demands laid out by the Republican administration, including overhauling the university’s student disciplinary process and applying a contentious, federally endorsed definition of antisemitism not only to teaching but to a disciplinary committee that has been investigating students critical of Israel.
Boycott them.
Morons. Educated people are the one’s seeking higher education and educated people tend to trend left on the political spectrum. Capitulating to a far right administration just guarantees that their donors are going to decline and their enrollment is going to tank.
I’m getting a lot of use from my old comment:
So many people, businesses, and countries have given Trump BJs to stay in his favour and all it does it show him he can come back and bully them again for more.
But I’m sure it’ll work out this time.
Stupidly paying for blackmail by a pedophile
Our institutions are bending the knee to a felon rapist traitor pedophile protector who flagrantly violates our Constitution and rights.
If we get through this and back on a proper democratic course, Columbia needs to be investigated and the people at the top of that organization’s structure need to be removed from their positions.
So they pay some money in order to receive some money
It’s a money laundering scheme. Somebody got to get their vig. Y’know, wet their beak? You get it, no need to mention it again.
Oh nooooo. The Zionists were called mean things by their coworkers. How fragile, that they need millions of dollars because they support genocide and war crimes.
Fuck those people. I am learning and not using the J term anymore. Because not all Jewish folks support this genocide. But I still have only met fervent psychopaths who are Jewish and support this genocide.
I’d love to see more messaging from anti-zionists Israelis. They need to get even louder. Fuck these zionists.
Step outside
Stop raping children before you murder them Zionist.
Haha what the fuck
Because not all Jewish folks support this genocide.
I doubt even most Jews support the genocide.
But I still have only met fervent psychopaths who are Jewish and support this genocide.
You should get a load of the cynical zionist xtians that look forward to the protagonist from their little book club coming back. The Jews need to be in Israel according to this ridiculous narrative. Of course, in this fairy tale, some number of Jews convert to xtianity, the rest are condemned to an eternity of torture. Because that’s a great moral system…and if genocide of Palestinians needs to happen in the service of this stupid fantasy, well, them’s the breaks.
God I hate all religions so much. I look down on people that need a fairy tale to be a good person. Imagine what we could do with this world if we didn’t have tards ruining everything.
This shit is so corrupt its reaching putin levels of dictatorship
You may not know this but Columbia had departments that used to be one of the loudest voices against Palestinians genocide.
They were the home of Edward Said, a Palestinian American, who through sheer intellectual force changed an entire academic discipline, by pointing out the majority of Western “Orientialist” studies were nothing more than a thin veneer for racism.
Few people have done more for me intellectually. That’s what makes this such a tragedy. They were the backbone of a nuanced view on the middle east even very recently.
Where does the 220 million go?
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Watched a few minutes. I’m sorry, but this is definitely not my cup of tea. It’s like a chained together string of AI clips that aren’t good quality with jarring fades to black every 10 seconds.
What is that 220 million going to be spent on?
Columbia is playing a long game. They know they are going to outlive HitlerPig, as are the rest of the institutions he is shaking down. They only have to outlast him, and the moment there’s a change in regime for any reason, they’ll sue the government for billions for extortion, and win.
