Summary

US universities are bracing for funding cuts and investigations as President-elect Trump and his allies target them in their anti-“woke” campaign, using the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism, to justify crackdowns on pro-Palestine activism.

Measures include threatening federal funding, revoking accreditation, and pressuring institutions to suppress protests.

Critics warn these efforts will chill free speech, stifle academic inquiry, and escalate censorship.

Civil liberties groups and educators vow to resist these attacks on higher education and political expression.

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    20 hours ago

    Curious how they’ll be using antisemitism as a justification to attack Jews.

    The only antisemitism here that’s happening is the State attacking anti-zionist Jews

    • Ham Strokers Ejacula@reddthat.com
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      9 hours ago

      It won’t be Jews this time it will be Muslims. The hate verbiage is already there: moose-lambs, sand-niggers, towel-heads, terrorists, etc. etc. Soon it will just be “well let’s just kill them all they aren’t human anyway”

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      11 hours ago

      They’ve been doing it for decades, and the media is always complicit. It’s like Chomsky wrote “Manufacturing Consent” specifically with Zionism in mind.