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3 days ago
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Harvard graduate criticizes university for fighting Trump more than antisemitism
Harvard alumnus Jonathan Harounoff told Fox News Digital on Thursday that Harvard is putting more effort into fighting against the Trump administration than addressing antisemitism on campus. "I think it's part of an increasing trend of the university putting all of its resources and force and weight behind fighting against the White House and… spending much less time fighting against antisemitism and the problems that have got the university to where we are now," Harounoff told Fox News Digital. Harounoff, Israel's international spokesperson to the United Nations, reacted to President Donald Trump's feud with Harvard amid the administration's crackdown on antisemitism and allegedly harboring pro-Hamas sentiments on the Ivy League school's campus. Trump Accuses Harvard Of Being 'Very Slow' To Turn Over Foreign Student Info Harounoff said Harvard should not be a place for endorsing violence and harboring students or employees who have "very unambiguous terrorist sympathies." "I suspect that the reason why Harvard is pushing back is just because it wants to protect all of its student population and that may be the case, but at the same time, the university – any university, any employer – can't expect the administration to accept students or employees who have very unambiguous terrorist sympathies," he told Fox News Digital. Read On The Fox News App Harounoff continued, "If those do exist, then they should be addressed head on, but we've seen on plenty of college campuses students and people who have no connection to anything to do with the university – on Columbia's campus and elsewhere." "You have people who unambiguously wave the flags of terrorist organizations, whether it's Hamas or Hezbollah, and who are chanting very proudly these openly antisemitic and anti-Western and anti-American slogans on a Western American, what's meant to be philosemitic campus, and that is not acceptable," he said. "And those are not just innocent protests – they're open calls for violence. The university should not be a space for endorsing such violence." Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Termination Of Student Visa Program "This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement announcing the administration's move to eliminate the student visa program due to "pro-terrorist conduct" during campus protests. It is a consequence of what DHS claims is Harvard's refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of student visa holders. Senior State Department officials told Fox News that not only are student visa holders being scrutinized, but all visa holders associated with Harvard are subject to investigation. Along with student visas, the State Department will be conducting a substantive investigation into B-1, or business visas; B-2, or tourist visas; as well as others, officials said. The investigation is aimed at identifying potential security vulnerabilities or other abuses of the visa system. The Department of Homeland Security is eliminating the student visa program at Harvard University due to "pro-terrorist conduct" at campus protests. Harvard has pushed back against the Trump administration by filing legal challenges to the president's orders. A court temporarily paused the Trump administration's move to cancel Harvard's student visa program after the university filed a lawsuit. The judge granted Harvard's request for a temporary restraining order to preserve the status quo while the case plays out in court. Harvard said the policy will affect more than 7,000 visa holders — nearly a quarter of the student body — and is a "blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act," per its court filing. Trump Administration Terminates Harvard's Student Visa Program Harounoff told Fox News Digital that one of the proudest moments of his personal and professional career was getting into Harvard. "As an international graduate student coming from England, my family was overjoyed, and it was a privilege, and it is a privilege of a lifetime. Harvard is the most famous university in the world. For a long time, it sat on the pantheon of great universities, educational institutions out there for people of all backgrounds, faiths, nationalities," he said. "And with that immense global recognition comes huge responsibility," Harounoff continued. "And that's why it's especially difficult and disappointing to see the university fight against the White House in recent months, much harder than it ever appeared to fight against antisemitism, the rampant antisemitism that had been enveloping the Ivy League campus, especially since October the 7."Original article source: Harvard graduate criticizes university for fighting Trump more than antisemitism
Mint
4 days ago
- Politics
- Mint
The punch that launched Trump's war on American universities
Harmeet Dhillon, head of the civil-rights division at the Justice Department, wakes up around 6 a.m. and begins her workday scrolling through X, searching for claims of discrimination. A lot of them, Dhillon said, regard universities. After spotting 'a list of new horrors," she said," I text my deputies, and we assign cases, and we get cranking." The Trump administration is on the hunt for campuses that have allegedly tolerated antisemitism, threatening to yank billions of dollars in federal research funding from Harvard and other top-name schools. The White House has accused universities of failing to protect Jewish students during campus protests against Israel over the war in Gaza that began in 2023. Yet the idea of targeting elite schools by withholding federal funds originated years earlier. Many conservatives have long studied ways to combat what they view as the liberal, anti-Western ills of American higher education. Some are now in the Trump administration, trying to push change. While Dhillon was a student at Dartmouth College, she was editor in chief of a conservative college newspaper that sued the school in a free-speech case. She said the lawsuit, which the paper won, cemented her career path. In 2018, she was the lawyer on a lawsuit that forced the University of California, Berkeley to revamp its speaker policies. Trump has since become preoccupied with the White House push—headed by Stephen Miller, the president's top domestic policy adviser—to influence U.S. universities, particularly Harvard, according to administration officials. Harvard is going to court Thursday to oppose administration efforts to forbid international students from enrolling at the school. 'Harvard wants to fight," Trump told reporters Wednesday in the Oval Office. 'They want to show how smart they are, and they're getting their ass kicked." Leaders in Trump circles have argued that universities were so deeply stewed in progressive ideas that small, incremental changes wouldn't be enough—that the federal government needed to force a major cultural shift. For years, the notion went nowhere. Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser, said he, Miller and others close to the president talked about asserting more control over universities in the early days of Trump's first term. 'The idea was nothing more than a concept back then," said Bannon, a Georgetown and Harvard graduate. 'You couldn't even call it an idea." Then a punch in the face grabbed Trump's attention. A demonstration against the war in Gaza at the Harvard campus on Oct. 14, 2023. In February 2019, Hayden Williams set up a table at UC Berkeley, where he was helping recruit students to join Turning Point USA, a youth-outreach group founded by conservative activist Charlie Kirk. A man taunted Williams and delivered a sucker punch. Neither the attacker, who was later arrested, nor Williams were students at the school. Video of the attack went viral and Williams, sporting a black eye, appeared on Fox News. Kirk recalled Trump saying at the time, We've got to do something about this. Kirk said he told Trump that it was a chance to stand up for conservative students, and that they talked about withholding federal funding for free-speech violations. Donald Trump Jr. has credited Kirk for pushing the strategy. About two weeks after the altercation, Trump brought Williams onstage at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump said he planned to sign an executive order requiring colleges and universities to uphold free speech if they want federal research money. 'If they don't, it will be very costly," Trump said. Soon after, Trump signed the executive order. It was stalled by opponents, who included congressional Republicans and some in the White House. Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, chair of the Senate's education committee, questioned whether the order was constitutional. 'I don't want to see Congress or the president or the department of anything creating speech codes to define what you can say on campus," Alexander said at the time. The roadblock echoed an earlier era. President Richard Nixon wanted to cut off Defense Department funding from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in response to campus antiwar protests, but members of his administration pushed back, historian Michael Koncewicz said. The first Trump administration nonetheless laid legal groundwork for the current fight. In 2020, after the administration tried and failed to stop money going to projects Trump opposed, the Office of Management and Budget adjusted federal grant regulations. The new rule permitted the termination of projects 'if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities." It was an opening waiting for its moment. Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators marching past the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., on April 18, 1972. During the four years between Trump's first and second terms, some of his former administration officials began planning another crack at reining in higher education. Conservative higher-education policymakers mapped how they could use executive power, anticipating that Republicans might not have 60 votes needed to overcome a Senate filibuster. 'There was a lot of energy to boldly plan for the maximum higher-education reform that would be justified at the federal level," recalled Adam Kissel, who was a deputy assistant secretary for higher-education programs at the Education Department during Trump's first term. Vice President JD Vance, a Yale Law School graduate, made the point clear during a speech at the 2021 National Conservatism conference, titled 'The Universities Are the Enemy." Pro-Palestinian demonstrations, following the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks and subsequent war in Gaza, provided the surprise push. During a congressional hearing that December, House members questioned campus presidents from three top universities about reports of antisemitism. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.), a top Trump ally and Harvard graduate, drew national attention with her inquiry. 'Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate MIT's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment, yes or no?" she asked Sally Kornbluth, the MIT president. Kornbluth didn't say yes, it was. Neither did the two other presidents. Stefanik said Claudine Gay, then-president of Harvard, should resign. Claudine Gay, left, then-president of Harvard University; Liz Magill, then-president of University of Pennsylvania, testifying before the House Education and Workforce Committee in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5, 2023. The video of the hearing was viewed billions of times, Stefanik said. Both Gay and Liz Magill, then-president of University of Pennsylvania, resigned in the lingering criticism that followed. 'It shows that it was a seminal moment," Stefanik said, 'and it set off an earthquake in higher ed." Conservative think tanks, packed with Trump allies, seized the moment. In January 2024, the Heritage Foundation held an event to launch a National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism. A number of Trump's first-term officials joined, including David Friedman, former ambassador to Israel. He said antisemitism had become 'a full five-alarm fire" that has 'infiltrated and insinuated itself into the halls of the Ivy League." 'You can walk into a cocktail party in Manhattan and spout Nazi rhetoric and you'll be shown the door," Friedman said in a video aired during the task-force launch. 'But if you express the conviction that Israel should not exist, you will probably be poured a drink." Friedman proposed a four-point prescription, beginning with 'take away their money," he said. 'Hate groups must lose their tax-exempt status, and universities that don't protect their students should lose their government funding," Friedman said. Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Trump's team was emboldened by his 2024 victory, which drew support across nearly every demographic group, including a significant boost from younger voters. Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, believed he had a receptive audience in the second Trump administration. He provided a list of schools he believed should be investigated, based, in part, on his own unwelcome experiences speaking there. The list included Harvard, Columbia, Duke and New York universities, as well as U Penn and University of California, Irvine. Within about two weeks of Trump's inauguration, the Justice Department announced the new Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. The Justice Department later released a list of 10 targeted universities, including several on Klein's list. Trump said recently he wanted to redirect federal funds from elite institutions to trade schools, and he has asked for suggestions about how to carry that out, officials said. The president has zeroed in on Harvard's endowment, telling aides that a university with some of the country's wealthiest backers doesn't need federal funds. 'It was kind of sticker-shock to him," Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. 'I think that it's right to investigate and take a look at all of it." Kirk said he speaks frequently with the president, telling him to 'crush these universities with every power you have." He was in the Oval Office Wednesday when the president said Harvard was going to get its backside kicked. Recent polls, including a survey by The Wall Street Journal this spring, show Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to cutting university funding for medical research. A Journal poll also found that some arguments from the Trump administration about the threat might gain support, such as casting the cuts as a way to protect Jewish students from antisemitism. Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, center, at the Oval Office where President Trump spoke Wednesday about Harvard's prospects. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a leading critic of universities it alleges squash conservative perspectives, has expressed opposition to Trump's tactics, including the threat to cut research funding at Harvard. 'The government can grant and reject grant requests for many reasons. But it can't do so for unconstitutional ones. And that's exactly what is happening here," said Tyler Coward, the foundation's lead counsel for government affairs. 'The problems that exist at Harvard, and there are many, cannot distract from the very real threat of the government wielding its immense funding power to control America's colleges and universities." Top Trump officials are closely monitoring the words and actions of university leaders. Columbia University interim President Claire Shipman in her recent commencement speech mentioned the absence of pro-Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil, who is the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. His detention has drawn protests. The following day, the university received a notice of civil-rights violation. McMahon said the notice was in the works before Shipman's speech. 'President Shipman is trying to balance different factions, but I was disappointed," McMahon said. Naming Khalil wasn't 'necessary for her to say, considering all of the campus unrest that had happened," McMahon said. White House officials told Columbia it should be mindful during its search for a permanent president that such comments from university leaders would again jeopardize federal funding, a senior administration official said. Dhillon, head of the DOJ's civil-rights division, said 'all these schools are in the penalty box, they're all misbehaving." Harvard is taking an aggressive approach, she said. Columbia, meanwhile, 'they're playing dead," Dhillon said. 'It doesn't mean their intentions are any different." Write to Eliza Collins at Douglas Belkin at Tarini Parti at and Liz Essley Whyte at
New York Post
25-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Secret Chinese links behind anti-Israel groups that fostered Elias Rodriguez's hate
Monsters like Elias Rodriguez don't suddenly emerge from under a rock. Their anti-American and anti-Israel hatreds are honed over time by a revolutionary ecosystem composed of different organisms. Years before he shot in cold blood an Israeli couple in the prime of their lives, Rodriguez was taught to loathe the West. Given the parlous state to which we have mindlessly allowed our universities to descend, Rodriguez may have imbibed some of this anti-Western dogma at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from which he graduated with an English degree in 2018. But we know for sure that concurrently with his 'education,' Rodriguez was associated with two leading institutions of the revolutionary ecosystem, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and one of its front groups, the ANSWER Coalition, an acronym for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. He attended several marches coordinated by both groups in 2018, and was identified as a member of the PSL. Now that Rodriguez has been caught committing a heinous crime, however, both groups are distancing themselves from him. Black Lives Matter Chicago also admitted that Rodriguez was a supporter and took part in several marches. BLM Chicago was one of the groups that cruelly posted pictures of paragliders with Palestinian flags after the terrorist group Hamas massacred over 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, the New York Post reported at the time. Rodriguez shouted 'Free Palestine,' moments before his arrest. Since Rodriguez murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram at the Jewish Museum in Washington DC last Wednesday (finishing off Milgram as she crawled away on the floor), journalists have been forced to bring up ANSWER, though carelessly describing it as an 'activist group,' or — even more shamefully by NewsNation — as a 'group that fights against racism and war with organizing centers in cities and towns across the country.' Even that marks a certain progress. Usually, journalists just report on demonstrations and riots without identifying the groups that organize them and bus in marchers. This gives the disturbances an undeserved air of spontaneity and the false impression of popular anger. ANSWER, the PSL and others are actually communist groups that coordinate marches and the takeover of strategic chokepoints in urban areas, and are tied to foreign enemies such as China and Cuba. The same media that breathlessly brought you reports of the 'Russian collusion' with the 2016 Trump campaign — which we now know to be false — rarely reports on this real danger. In a paper published barely a year ago, the stellar Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), lifted the veil on ANSWER, the PSL, and other such groups as the People's Forum and the International People's Assembly (IPA), and their connections to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), whose geopolitical influence they promote. 'The People's Forum, IPA, and ANSWER Coalition serve as the conduit through which CCP-affiliated entities have effectively co-opted pro-Palestinian activism in the U.S., advancing a broader anti-American, anti-democratic, and anti-capitalist agenda,' said NCRI. Moreover, NCRI added that these three far-left groups 'are part of a network linked by close financial, interpersonal, and ideological ties to Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans, a power couple within the global far-left movement with close ties to the CCP' Evans is the co-founder of CodePink, a group that organizes street mayhem. Evans announced on X two days after Rodriguez's murderous rampage that she was 'fasting for Gaza.' Singham, a multi-millionaire, lives in Shanghai, China, 'where he shares premises with Shanghai Maku Cultural Communications Ltd., a Chinese propaganda firm focused on presenting a positive image of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the global south.' According to a 2023 report by the New York Times, one of the rare instances when the legacy media has reported on this network, Singham's 'ties to the propaganda machine date back at least to 2019, when, corporate documents show, he started a consulting business with Chinese partners. Those partners are active in the propaganda apparatus.' Singham's money also finances the People's Forum, which organized an anti-Israel demonstration by thousands on New York's Times Square on Oct. 8, 2023, before Israel had fired a single shot in retaliation. The People's Forum and the other groups make clear repeatedly that their ultimate target is the U.S. Seven of these groups, including the People's Forum, and the two groups Rodriguez was involved with signed in 2023 a statement that read, in part, 'we mobilize in the belly of the beast because we understand that we have a unique role to play in combating material support for Zionism, and weakening the handmaiden of U.S. global imperialism.' The People's Forum is headed by Manolo De Los Santos, who has been indoctrinated in Cuba for years and has tweeted pictures of him with Cuban dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel. De Los Santos operates inside the U.S., but his bio at the Black Alliance for Peace says that 'he was based out of Cuba for many years.' On April 30, 2024, two hours before protestors stormed Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, De Los Santos addressed some 100 keffiyeh-clad protesters at his group's headquarters in Midtown, where he said, 'We have to be the bodies willing to stand between the police and our students.' These are the groups, and the foreign forces, that nurture our young haters. Rodriguez didn't come out of nowhere. He came from here. Mike Gonzalez is a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
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25-05-2025
- Politics
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Kim Jong-un's Absence from the Victory Day Parade: A sign of Disregard and Distrust toward Putin
Kim, Min Gyu(Former Senior official of DPRK Foreign Ministry) On May 9, the Victory Day parade, Russia's symbolic national celebration, took place in Moscow's Red Square. On this day, Russia reflects on its historical achievements while showcasing its enduring military strength. The day held particular significance for Putin this year. Amid growing international isolation following the war in Ukraine, he sought to demonstrate Russia's 'anti-Western coalition' by inviting the leaders of allied and friendly nations. Notably, Putin cordially invited Kim Jong-un to highlight the strong ties between the two countries, as their expanding military and economic cooperation has revitalized their relationship. North Korea's supply of shells and missiles to Russia, coupled with Russia's provision of satellite technologies, crude oil, food supply, and its support on the international stage, has drawn significant global attention. However, it was none other than the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, who struck down Putin's hope, rejecting the invitation. Instead, Kim visited the Russian embassy in Pyongyang to mark the anniversary. On the surface, it appeared to be a display of 'amicable bilateral ties', but it wasn't so beneath that facade. In his congratulatory speech, Kim Jong-un seemed to praise Russia's victory, but the remarks were largely centered around his own achievements. Even the North Korean media focused more on their leader than on Putin, saying 'Russia and North Korea are enjoying a new golden age of their friendship ushered in by Kim's remarkable leadership.' In the end, Kim managed to make the event more about himself than Russia. This is typical of North Korean diplomacy. They speak of 'blood alliance', 'friendship' and 'brother nations', but all they think about is preserving the regime and reinforcing the cult of its leader. The decision not to attend the event fits squarely within this pattern. North Korea claimed Kim's absence was due to 'security concerns', but it reflects its lack of trust in the diplomatic protocol and security arrangements of its ally. Russia has a proven track record of successfully ensuring the safety of world leaders at numerous international events. Delegations from 27 countries attended this year's Victory Day parade, with 15 of them holding bilateral talks with Putin through the 10th. Even amid the Chechenya war and the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, protocols and security measures to protect high-profile figures were meticulously planned under Putin's leadership. Yet, Kim's refusal to visit Moscow―citing 'security concerns'―reveals the underlying truth of their relationship: while exchanges based on mutual interests persist, mutual trust is absent. In fact, such an audacious diplomatic behavior is nothing new for Kim Jong-un. A notable example is China's 70th Victory Day parade in 2015. At the time, China invited the leaders of its key allies and friendly nations, including Russia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, to the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Kim was also on the guest list, but he made a specific request: 'to be positioned next to Xi Jinping during the ceremony'. In essence, he demanded a treatment for a supreme leader. Xi, however, rejected the request, instead placing the UN Secretary General and the leaders of countries considered to share a 'blood alliance' with China in the positions closest to him. Displeased by this decision, Kim informed China that he would not attend the event. North Korea claimed his absence was due to a domestic schedule. In reality, it was because he did not want to risk losing face. This incident―seen as one of the key moments that contributed to the rift between Pyongyang and Beijing―perfectly illustrates how capricious and self-centered the Kim Jong-un regime's diplomacy is. Unless he is the most respected figure at the table, Kim refuses to engage in any diplomatic event. This is precisely why he also declined Putin's invitation to the Victory Day parade. This highlights the fundamental flaw in Pyongyang's diplomatic strategy. Traditional diplomacy between nations is built on mutual trust, consultation, national interests, and balance. In contrast, Kim's diplomacy is entirely driven by personal reputation and regime survival. His pride and regime stability take precedence over bilateral relations. Despite frequently using phrases like 'blood alliance', 'anti-Western front', and 'autonomous bloc', the reality behind such rhetoric is volatile. Kim Jong-un's absence from the Victory Day event starkly exposes how self-serving and unreliable his diplomatic conduct is. It also underscores the emptiness of his talk of 'alliances' or 'friendly cooperation'. Even if Russia extends military and economic support, Kim will readily disregard such gestures if they do not directly serve his personal image or regime security. Moscow should take this incident as an opportunity to reassess its relationship with Pyongyang. In the short term, transactional exchanges―such as military goods, oil and technological support―may continue. However, the foundation for long-term trust appears out of reach. Kim Jong-un's erratic and self-serving diplomatic behavior is likely to pose a serious risk to the future of their bilateral relations. At the same time, the international community must take a clear-eyed view of the structural flaws in North Korea's diplomacy. Any negotiations or cooperation with North Korea are ultimately contingent on Kim's personal pride. Even nuclear negotiations, economic aid or humanitarian support can be abruptly reversed, depending on his mood or internal political calculus. Kim's absence from the recent event has just exposed the deep nature of how North Korea conducts foreign relations. In other words, it was not merely a matter of skipping a single event. It was a public snub of Putin's hospitality, a display of duplicity in Kim's dealings with Russia, and a stark reminder of the systemic issues embedded in North Korea's diplomatic approach. It is now imperative for every country and the broader international community to take a hard look at the inherent risk and volatility that North Korea represents, and to begin formulating an effective strategy to manage this challenge. read more Analysis- Turkey Has 0 Regional Allies... Why? Analysis: Russia, Turkey... Libya in Return For Syria? 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21-05-2025
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TikTok Under Fire as Nigerian Terrorists Use App for Propaganda Firstpost Africa
TikTok Under Fire as Nigerian Terrorists Use App for Propaganda | Firstpost Africa | N18G TikTok Under Fire as Nigerian Terrorists Use App for Propaganda | Firstpost Africa | N18G Terrorist groups in northeastern Nigeria are increasingly turning to TikTok to spread extremist propaganda, recruit fighters, and raise funds through livestreams and digital gifts. In April alone, over 100 people were killed in a surge of attacks in Borno state, the epicentre of Nigeria's long-running insurgency. Videos reviewed by AFP showed alleged Boko Haram members broadcasting live, flaunting weapons and cash, and echoing anti-Western rhetoric. Experts say this shift to TikTok reflects a strategy to engage youth on platforms they frequent, especially as authorities crack down on Telegram. While TikTok claims a zero-tolerance policy, many accounts remain active, raising alarm over the platform's vulnerability to extremist misuse. See More
