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Now, it should be clear. Trump administration attack on American universities is not related to anti -Semitism. This is an attempt to bring institutions that sponsor independent thought under the control of the government.

For Trump, universities are the heart of the American liberal establishment. If liberalism must be defeated, then the best universities must be lowered.

In 2021, he gave JD Vance letter Entitled “Universities are the enemy”. In the future, the vice president has argued that “we have to attack universities in this country honestly and back.

It is important to note that Vans’s speech was presented two years ago October 7, Hamas attack on Israel. But Gaza campus protests gave the Maga movement the opening that it was looking for. Now Trump, FAF, and other useful machines of sarcastic accusation of anti -Semitism to follow revenge.

Trump and his followers took a nucleus of the truth and building something terrible from him. It is true that in the aftermath of Hamas, some academics and students attack, in various American universities, through the line to anti -Semitism and glorify terrorism. Some Jewish students were harassing and felt that it was necessary to hide their Jewish identity. University presidents, who are witnessing in front of Congress on the issue of anti -Semitism, gave responses to bones – some of which are pushing with their jobs.

But the demands were placed in a letter He sent it hostile to the Trump administration Business Band To Harvard on April 11, he went further. In the name of the enforcement of the “diversity of the point of view”, the message mainly asked the federal government to the authority to accept students, and to employ faculty and political opinions for both students and faculty. Harvard, which is not surprising, their rejection.

in interview Last year, Vans Victor Urban was martyred with a model to deal with universities. During the era of Urban, the Central Europe University was forced out of Hungary. Vans suggested that American universities should also be given “a choice between survival or a less biased approach to teaching.”

The Trump administration threatens Harvard University’s federal funding, the state of tax exemption and the ability to accept foreign students. If all the most famous and richest University of America will drop, it is expected that all others will fall. Academic freedom in America will be dead.

The status of anti -Semitism in the midst of the attack on universities is sarcastic, but it is tactically smart. The hatred of Jews is widely and a right. You can endanger the open anti -Semitism – or even failure to combat anti -Semitism with sufficient vitality – to put your job or financing you. It is suitable for the Trump administration and Netanyahu’s government to cancel the difference between the opposition to the Israeli war in Gaza and anti -Semitism. But it is clear that they are not the same. Many campus demonstrators in Colombia, Harvard and other places of Jews were.

The campaign against universities is now-it is supposed to create a climate of fear in universities that extend beyond activists supporting the Palestinians. More than 1,000 foreign students are believed to have The visas have been canceled Or the legal situation often changes on mysterious foundations – others are detained.

It is recommended that the one million foreign students in the United States in the United States be carefully walked. Boston University, for example, has Urging They have “personal safety plans” – including emergency contacts and friends authorized to capture their children from daytime care if parents are arrested.

For decades, American colleges pulled talents to the country from all over the world. The fact that the United States is the home of most of the world’s leading universities is one of the greatest strengths in the country. The destruction of the university system is the opposite of “making America great again.” But Trump and his heirs can help in power.

In addition to being a tragedy of the United States, the attack on academic circles is a potential disaster for American Jews, who have provided the country’s great universities for a haven and drink for progress. Luis Brandez, the first judge in the Jewish Supreme Court ever, came through Harvard University. Likewise, Henry Kissinger, a Jewish refugee and one of the most influential American diplomats. The Jews were excessively represented in Ivy League universities, relative to the population.

Vans is a conservative Catholic, and the Christian Noms, Minister of Internal Security who accused Harvard of failing to protect the Jews, is an evangelical Christian. Alan Garper, head of Havard, who has rejected the administration’s demands, is a Jew. As well as many distinguished academics who lead Harvard’s fight – including Stephen Benker, Lawrence Samarz and Stephen Levitsky.

Entity of Semitism is a problem in America. But it can be said that at least prevailed on the far right as on the left. the “Great replacement theoryBlame the Jews for the promotion of mass migration has a great purchase of Trump’s right to support.

The best colleges in America are far from the immunity of cash. They have made a lot of a lot – in everything from the eradication of culture to the acceptance policy. But the Trump administration does not provide friendly advice. In the task of destruction.

Gideon.rachman@ft.com