Jerry Nadler on Trump's university attacks: 'He doesn't give a damn about antisemitism'

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Source: The Guardian

Sat 5 Apr 2025 06.00 EDT
Last modified on Sat 5 Apr 2025 06.03 EDT


Jerry Nadler, the most senior Jewish member of the House of Representatives, has accused Donald Trump of being a “would-be dictator” who is cynically exploiting the fight against antisemitism as a ruse to stamp his will on top-flight universities. In an interview with the Guardian, the New York congressman lashed out against the president for using genuine dangers confronting American Jews as a guise to justify his attacks on Columbia, Harvard and other universities.

“Trump obviously doesn’t give a damn about antisemitism, this is just an expression of his authoritarianism,” he said. Nadler’s broadside came as the Trump administration is stepping up its attack on Ivy League and other universities in an unprecedented challenge to academic independence.

This week $210m in research grants to Princeton University were suspended by the energy and defense departments and NASA, under the mantle of a federal investigation into “antisemitic harassment”. Days earlier, the Trump administration announced it would review $9bn in federal contracts and grants to Harvard University. Another $500m of federal funds to Brown University are reportedly under threat.

The latest assaults on the Ivy League follow the cancellation of $400m in federal money to Columbia University in New York. At least 60 other universities have been warned by the administration that they face similar punishment. Earlier this week Nadler released a sternly-worded statement denouncing the attacks. He said the president was “weaponizing the real pain American Jews face to advance his desire to wield control over truth-seeking academic institutions”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/jerry-nadler-trump-antisemitism

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Link to Rep. Nadler PRESS RELEASE - NADLER CONDEMNS TRUMP'S CONTINUED ASSAULT ON HIGHER EDUCATION

As I have posted before, this is outright insidious and craven and others need to call it out as a setup to "divide and conquer" and "blame the Jews". Nadler's press release has this -

Once again, the President is weaponizing the real pain American Jews face to advance his desire to wield control over the truth-seeking academic institutions that stand as a bulwark against authoritarianism

What WAS antisemitic was the pardoning of all those "Jews will not replace us" fuckers like the members of the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Patriot Front who participated in the J6 insurrection.