Harvard, Yale, Columbia fall in line after Trump funding threats
Harvard University terminated a librarian this month who ripped down a poster of Israeli hostages at a pro-Palestine rally, while Yale University’s law school placed a pro-Palestinian research scholar on leave over allegations that she has ties to a group subject to US sanctions.
At Cornell University, a group called Students for Justice in Palestine faces suspension after disrupting a “Pathways for Peace” event on campus this week, and the University of California at Los Angeles —- rocked last year by anti-Zionist rallies and accusations of mistreatment of Jewish students — created a new initiative to combat antisemitism. Columbia University, the scene of some of the most dramatic protests against Israel last year, said the school will transform its approach to managing demonstrations.
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The actions come more than a year after donors to universities, including billionaires Ken Griffin, Len Blavatnik and Leon Cooperman, vowed to pause their giving after slamming schools over their approach to a range of issues from tackling antisemitism to free speech and diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
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Their actions had limited impact on university policy. Demonstrations against Israel swept through US campuses last spring with tent encampments and acts of vandalism. Even as a Congressional investigation highlighted acts of antisemitism and breaches of