OPINION:
Officials serving in President Trump’s Department of Education just announced that 60 universities across America are facing federal investigations for “antisemitic discrimination and harassment.”
That’s after agents serving in Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement force entered the apartment of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, and arrested him for staging a raucous pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protest on campus — a protest Khalil pledged was just the first “of many to come.”
America is restoring sanity to its places of higher learning.
After a tumultuous 2024 school season, complete with massive uprisings by Hamas-defending ignoramuses, err, students, who took over campuses, set up tents, demanded meetings with administrators and guarantees of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions treatment of Israeli products — after the days of this chaos turned into weeks, then months, then promises from these lunatic fringe students and their enablers to repeat the chaos in the new school years — after the feckless Biden administration’s zero-response and the equally feckless college and university responses called Coddle-At-All-Costs; of coddling-slash-emboldening the agitators — after the sad and sorry plight of Jewish parents pulling their Jewish kids from colleges out of fear for their safety and yes, even lives — after all this tragic display of antisemitism and Jew-bashing and Jew-hating and love-of-terror-groups went forth on American soil for way, way, way too long: finally — an end.
Arrests are being made.
Agitators’ faces are being shown.
Green cards are being revoked.
“We will find, apprehend and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again,” Trump wrote on social media.
He went on: “If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America’s colleges and universities to comply.”
Finally.
Khalil — “the first [arrest] of many to come,” Trump promised — has been a longtime face of Columbia antisemitism. Last year, he fueled the establishment of a camp on the school’s main lawn to protest Israel’s military action in Gaza — military action, by the way, that only began after Hamas terrorists from Gaza launched an unprovoked and surprise attack on hundreds of Jews and friends of Jews attending a music festival. Hamas, on Oct. 7, 2023, murdered, abducted and tortured hundreds; several of their victims are to this day being held by the terror group in tunnels they’ve dug in Gaza.
In other words: The Israel Defense Forces didn’t invade Gaza. The IDF took defensive military maneuvers to destroy the terror group that attacked innocents, and to win back the hostages. Had Hamas never attacked, Gaza would still be at peace and all the Palestinians whom the antisemites of the world are pointing to and pretending to be victims right now would simply be going about their business. They wouldn’t be in the middle of war.
And if schools in America run by leftist administrators and leftist teachers taught truthful history to their students, America’s universities wouldn’t have turned into the hotbeds of antisemitism they’ve become these past few months. Just sayin’.
As Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said, “U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers.”
Why should Americans be funding these terrorist enablers?
“Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants for Columbia University,” NBC News wrote. The reason? It’s “due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”
Good.
Let that serve as a warning to the other schools currently facing investigation for allowing similar disgusting displays of antisemitism.
Screaming at Jews to go home while brandishing signs that say, “Free Palestine,” and “From the river to the sea,” are not peaceful protests as protected by the First Amendment. They’re acts of hostility and violence, and if university administrators won’t treat them as such, then thankfully we finally have a White House that will. It’s just a shame it took America so long to start to do the right thing.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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