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60 universities face anti-Semitism investigations: Trump's Education Department
President Donald Trump's Department of Education announced on Monday that it has launched investigations into 60 universities across the nation over anti-Semitism concerns.
Last week, the Education Department, the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. General Services Administration canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University due to its "inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students," according to a DOE press release.
'Deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite US campuses continue to fear for their safety.'
The university was notified earlier this month that the joint task force would complete a review of its more than $5 billion federal grant commitments as part of an investigation into potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
The action was linked to Trump's executive order combatting anti-Semitism, which also led to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's recent detainment of the leader of a pro-Hamas group associated with violent protests at Columbia University.
Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, "This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it."
"Many are not students, they are paid agitators," he continued. "We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. 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."
A spokesperson for Columbia University told the New York Post that the school will "work with the federal government to restore Columbia's federal funding."
"We take Columbia's legal obligations seriously and understand how serious this announcement is and are committed to combatting anti-Semitism and ensuring the safety and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff," the spokesperson stated.
On Monday, the Education Department took further action against the nation's universities that have allowed disruptive and sometimes violent pro-Hamas and anti-Israel protests to take over their campuses.
The department announced that its Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 universities "warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students on campus, including uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities."
It noted that those 60 higher learning institutions — including Arizona State University, Harvard University, Rutgers University, the State University of New York, the University of California, and Yale University — are currently under investigation.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated, "The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless anti-Semitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better."
"U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers. That support is a privilege, and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal antidiscrimination laws," she added.
Universities respond
A spokesperson for ASU told KPNX, "Arizona State University has a long history of opposing anti-Semitic rhetoric and acts of intimidation whether they occur on our campuses or in the community. The university has been very clear about this position."
In response to potential funding threats, Harvard announced a temporary hiring freeze on Monday.
"Effective immediately, Harvard will implement a temporary pause on staff and faculty hiring across the University. In the coming days, we will work closely with the leadership of Harvard's Schools and administrative units to help determine how to implement this guidance in extraordinary cases, such as positions essential to fulfilling the terms of gift- or grant-funded projects," it stated.
A Rutgers spokesperson told the Philadelphia Inquirer that the school "condemns anti-Semitism in the strongest terms possible, and we always will do so. Our strong Jewish community is a point of pride for the university. The university adheres to state and federal law and will always strive to strengthen and enforce the policies and practices that protect our students, faculty, and staff."
A SUNY spokesperson told the Legislative Gazette, "SUNY has no tolerance for anti-Semitism and will continue to ensure that our campuses are safe and inclusive for Jewish students and free from all forms of discrimination and harassment."
"SUNY has frequently and consistently publicly condemned anti-Semitism, opposed [boycott, divestment, and sanctions movements], and taken major steps to ensure compliance with all federal civil rights laws. The safety and security of our students is and always will be paramount," the spokesperson added.
The UC Office of the President said in a statement to KXTV that it is aware that several of its campuses received a letter from the Education Department.
"We want to be clear: The University of California is unwavering in its commitment to combatting anti-Semitism and protecting the civil rights of all our students, faculty, staff, and visitors. We continue to take specific steps to foster an environment free of anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination and harassment for everyone in the university community," the statement read.
A Yale University spokesperson told the Yale Daily News, "Yale has long been committed to combatting anti-Semitism and strives to ensure that its Jewish community, along with all communities at Yale, are treated with dignity, respect, and compassion. Anti-Semitism is inconsistent with Yale's values and principles and has no place in our community."
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Mark Levin GOES OFF on ‘Democrat Islamist’ Chris Van Hollen for arguing Gaza deserves ‘self-determination’
To give the people of Gaza “self-determination” would mean death to Jews and Israelis. Such a privilege would only lead to the re-election of Hamas and the perpetuation of its violent agenda.
But apparently this common sense is lost on Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) — “a Democrat islamist” who’s one of the worst Hamas apologists in Congress, says Mark Levin.
In a recent hearing, Sen. Van Hollen pressed U.N. ambassador nominee Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to vow that she believes Palestinians have a right to self-determination.
“[President Trump] said he wants to bring long-term peace and security to the region. Clearly Hamas can have no role in that future, but long-term peace must include security, self-determination, and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians alike,” he began, before attempting to force Stefanik into agreeing with the statement that “in order to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Middle East," "we have to secure the human rights and rights of self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians.”
Levin lambastes Van Hollen for his ignorance.
“You talk about dignity and self-determination among Palestinians? Well, where is it? They're slaughtering each other,” he says.
“Even though Gaza is Israeli territory, always has been, for thousands of years — it's actually a beautiful place, or was. … They could have built industries there; they could build tourist attractions,” he points out. “They had all the opportunity in the world, all the money in the world from one foreign government after another and UNRWA — the terrorist organization working for the terrorist United Nations — and what do they do with all this money?”
“They built an underground cave system to slaughter people — slaughter their own people — and yet they're the most popular party among the Palestinians,” Levin says. “But we're going to give them a state, and we're going to carve it out of the ancestral homeland of the Jews?”
As for Van Hollen’s insistence that we need to “secure the human rights and self-determination” of Palestinians, Levin asks, “How do we secure the human rights and self-determination of a people that don't even want to secure it for themselves?”
Pointing out a long list of barbarities committed by Hamas and the Palestinians who put the regime in power, he says it’s clear that “they don't give a damn about their self-determination."
Further, many of the victims who were slaughtered on October 7 were socially liberal Jews who voted against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and supported the idea of “cultural relationships with the Palestinians in Gaza.”
But did that stop Hamas from murdering them in cold blood? Of course not.
“How many Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East have self-determination? How many democracies are there?” Levin then asks. “Exactly zero. You have a military dictatorship, you have monarchy dictatorships, you have Islamic dictatorships; there are no democracies.”
“So this one place we're going to have self-determination? Where people are committed to slaughtering the Jews and the Israelis from the river to the sea? And we have to ensure their self-determination?” he asks in disgust.
“No, there is no self-determination because they don't want it.”
To hear Mark Levin rip into Senator Van Hollen, watch the clip above.
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Disturbing online materials allegedly offer glimpse into thoughts, potential motives of Nashville school shooting suspect
The alleged writings of the suspected shooter at Antioch High School in Nashville reveal the state of mind and possible motives for the deadly school shooting.
As Blaze News previously reported, the high school was placed on lockdown due to reports of gunshots being fired in the building around 11 a.m. local time Wednesday.
'I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't take anymore.'
The shooter — identified by police as 17-year-old Solomon Henderson — reportedly used a handgun to fire several shots in the school cafeteria.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement that two students were shot. A male student suffered a wound after a bullet grazed him, but 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante was fatally shot. A third student suffered a facial wound due to a fall.
The shooter fatally shot himself in the head, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department.
The shooter allegedly livestreamed the attack from multiple social media platforms, including Kick, which is similar to Twitch.
Kick confirmed the shooting was partially livestreamed on the platform but stressed that the account was "rapidly" banned and the content was quickly removed.
"We extend our thoughts to everyone impacted by this event," the company said in a statement on X. "Violence has no place on Kick. We are actively working with law enforcement and taking all appropriate steps to support their investigation."
WTVF-TV obtained documents said to be written by Henderson, which provided a possible glimpse into what he may have been thinking prior to the shooting.
He allegedly had a layout of the school in his documents. Henderson reportedly wrote that he "was ashamed to be black."
The Nashville Banner reported that Henderson wrote, "Candace Owens influenced me above all each time she spoke."
Henderson allegedly posted a flyer from the Goyim Defense League — which the Anti-Defamation League describes as a "small network of virulently anti-Semitic provocateurs" that has a mission to "expel Jews from America."
Posters from the GDL are seen stating that "every single aspect" of the Trump campaign, Biden administration, and mainstream media are "Jewish."
Henderson reportedly also expressed that he was "miserable" and suicidal for months.
"I was so miserable. I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't take anymore. I am a worthless subhuman, a living breathing disgrace," he allegedly wrote in online comments on Nov. 18. "All my [in real life] friends outgrew me, act like they didn't f**king know me. Being me was so f**king humiliating. That's why I spend all day dissociating."
Henderson reportedly said that he didn't consider himself to be a victim of bullying.
'Today seems like a good day to die.'
Henderson — an Antioch student — purportedly said of his high school, "School is a daycare. It's just impossible for you to actually think. You say things because other people have said it before then go repeat ad nauseam somewhere else. In school, we're taught to wake up early, shut up, sit for long periods of hours, do tasks you hate, then repeat."
Henderson allegedly was influenced by other school shooters, including the transgender mass shooter who murdered three 9-year-old children and three adults in the 2023 shooting at the Covenant School — a private Christian elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville.
Henderson purportedly had a photo of the Covenant School shooter in his documents. He reportedly wrote that he did not intend to kill any law enforcement officers. His manifesto allegedly included a link to instructions on how to carry out a mass killing and ranked targets from easiest to most difficult.
The Tennessean reported that the 300-page document was posted on X and included several photos of Henderson, who reportedly praised Adolf Hitler and shared photos of previous school shootings.
The writer allegedly said the original plan would need to "speed up," and the goal would be to kill "at least 10 people."
A post on a Bluesky account linked in the document reportedly stated: "Today seems like a good day to die."
Nashville Police Chief John Drake confirmed there were "materials" on the internet that law enforcement is investigating.
"That's in the initial stages, but we’ll continue to follow up on that," Drake stated.
WTVF said it did not immediately receive a response to a request for comment from police. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is assisting with the investigation.
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Kent State lecturer suggests Hamas terror attacks were miraculous
Another apparent champion of Islamic terrorism has been outed on campus, this time at Kent State University.
The Middle East Media Research Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, recently shared a video containing excerpts from a pair of sermons given by radical Kent State math lecturer Nader Taha — one reportedly recorded on Nov. 10, 2023, and the other recorded last month.
Just weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel, Taha, an imam affiliated with the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent, suggested in a sermon that Israel had routinely "disgraced" the Al-Aqsa Mosque, "so your brothers and sisters in Gaza responded."
"The faces of the children of Israel will be so humiliated — Allah says that," Taha subsequently states in the edit of the video shared by MEMRI. "What do you want more than the humiliation of faces than what you have seen nowadays?"
Taha suggested further in his November address that Israel will spend billions of dollars to demonstrate its democratic nature, but "it will backfire on them. ... Then they shall be defeated and overpowered, and that's what we have seen, dear brothers."
'References to the October 2023 massacre are abhorrent and stand in stark contrast to our institutional commitment to peaceful dialogue.'
In the second sermon, reportedly recorded on Dec. 13, 2024, Taha says, "To be honest with you, Gaza — they planted the seed of freedom in the heart of not just only the Muslim world but the whole world. From their steadfastness, from the way they sacrificed, and they defeated that myth. Before that, it was [said by] all: 'Oh, Israel, the fourth-strongest army in the world, it is undefeated. They were able to defeat five Arabic armies in less than six hours.'"
Campus Reform noted that Taha was referring to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, which was fought over a period of six days between Israel and Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.
"And yet," continued Taha, "in the Al-Aqsa Flood, we have seen miracle after miracle after miracle."
Hamas and its sympathizers refer to the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel that left 797 civilians and 379 security personnel dead by the code name "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood."
Kent State University issued a statement on Jan. 2 condemning Taha's remarks as "antisemitic" and noting that "references to the October 2023 massacre are abhorrent and stand in stark contrast to our institutional commitment to peaceful dialogue, as well as our core values of kindness and respect."
"Now more than ever, and especially in light of the tragic attack in New Orleans, we call for understanding and dialogue as the path to avoiding violence and destruction," continued the university's statement. "The remarks were not made on a Kent State campus, nor as part of any official event or program."
Journalist Toni Airaksinen indicated that Taha is apparently still scheduled to begin teaching four courses at the university later this month.
Blaze News reached out to the university about Taha's status as a lecturer but did not immediately receive a response. Taha similarly did not immediately respond with comment.
Recent pro-Hamas protests and riots on campuses across the country revealed that Taha is anything but an outlier, even on university faculties.
Blaze News previously reported that Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics at Columbia University who has a special interest in "theories of nationalism, sexuality, race, and religion" and regularly contributes to the Middle East Eye, is set to teach a course on Zionism despite referring to Islamic terrorism as "resistance" and insinuating that the victims of the Oct. 7 attack were "cruel colonizers."
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