If they accept this unlawful action, the university will be making a serious mistake.

On Friday of last week, the Trump administration announced that it was canceling $400 million in grants to and contracts with Columbia University in response to the university’s allegedly having ignored “relentless violence, intimidation, and anti-Semitic harassment on” its campus. The announcement came from an administration Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism and bears the logo of four government agencies: the Justice Department; the Department of Health and Human Services; the Department of Education; and the General Services Administration.

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