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Trump cancels $400 million in grants to Columbia, citing lack of action against antisemitism
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Anti-Israel activists protest outside Columbia University, January 21, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
US President Donald Trump’s administration has canceled grants and contracts totaling $400 million to Columbia University due to “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students,” the Education Department says.
Columbia was at the center of college protests in which demonstrators demanded an end to US support for Israel amid the Gaza war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught.
The Ivy League university has previously said it made efforts to tackle antisemitism.
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