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President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel $400 million federal grants due to an anti-Semitic culture from Columbia University should be a moment of self-reflection for leftists and liberals around the world.
As a Columbia University graduate with a Masters in International Affairs, it was painful to see Sen. John Kennedy as R-La. I took the minutes as journalist Asura Nomani testified before the committee and warned the senators about the “industry” that promoted anti-Semish hatred.
Muslim journalists are warning in the Senate of anti-Semitic “industry” and are seeking a DOJ probe for “malignant foreign influence.”
While you might argue that violent protests against Jews and Israel on American campuses are trivial compared to the thousands of Palestinians killed in Gaza, the decline in safety for American universities Jewish students is important and at the heart of this conflict. At the hearing, witnesses testified that Hamas, particularly after the terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7th, had risen in anti-Semitism in the United States. Kennedy highlighted Colombia’s historic anti-Semitism and how hatred towards Jews were normalized under the Biden administration’s DEI program. Seeing anti-Semitic violence from India in 2023 in Colombia made me frightened.
Muslim journalist Asura Nomani testified before a Senate committee examining anti-Semitism. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
It was clear to me that as a Colombian student in the late 2000s, many scholars and groups of students sympathized with the perpetrators of fear than the victims. In 2007, they hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The following year, they remained silent when Pakistan-trained extremists attacked India on November 26, 2008.
In 2009, the left-wing and Islamic student unions closed the university and canceled a speech by conservative Dutch politician Ghat Wilders. I was one of the few people who attended his lectures and asked difficult questions about his anti-Islamic views. However, the student mob enveloped him rather than engaged in the discussion. This intolerance to different perspectives was evident in Colombia, where it appears to be a temple of freedom of speech.
The signs were there, but I never imagined that the link between the Colombian left and Islamist wing would push campuses reminiscent of developing countries into a swirl of violence. I didn’t expect the Ivy League campus to showcase scenes of violent Muslim threats, as seen at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India in 2016.
There are historical similarities between the division of India and Palestinian territory. After World War II, the British retreated from the colonies and created new states of Pakistan and Israel. Arab Muslims were vehemently opposed the creation of Israel, but India accepted the division of Britain and gave it a large portion of its territory to create Pakistan. Unlike the Arabs, the new Indian leader chose Gandhi’s Ahimsa philosophy, or non-violence, allowing Muslims to flourish in their own country. However, the Pakistani army chose jihad against India, ruining the country for over 75 years. Meanwhile, Arabs and Iranians are using Palestinian Muslims as feed to fight Israel, perpetuating terrorism and conflict. Coexistence between Jews, Arabs and Iranians is possible, but hatred and violence continues.
No country around the world has sparked more condemnation than Israel, and conflicts do not sympathize as much as the Palestine issue. Muslims around the world rarely express the same sympathy for the massacre of Muslims in Bangladeshi by the Pakistani military or the oppression of Muslims in Islamic gods. Human rights groups, advocacy groups and think tanks have spent billions on demonizing Israel for 70 years.
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During the Senate hearing, Nomani spoke of the beheading of her friend and Wall Street Journal colleague Daniel Pearl by Pakistani terrorists who saw his Jewish identity, American citizenship and Israeli roots as a crime. She revealed that a network of around 1,500 organizations will spread anti-Semitic propaganda and radicalize American youth against Jews. I witnessed this hatred before the hearing and spoke to an anti-Israel activist from group code pink in the Senate corridor outside the hearing room. Pink shirt and Palestinian Kefier defended the solution in one state and defended Israel as a Jewish state.
President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel $400 million with federal funds to Columbia is a good start. His government must then prosecute individuals and organizations involved in the weaponization of anti-Semitistic sentiment.
Two years ago, a New York Times investigation revealed Chinese funding led by American billionaire Neville Roy Singham, sending money to liberal media, think tanks and advocacy groups, including Code Pink. Singham is married to Jody Evans’ Code, co-founder of Pink. In India, the network has responded to NewsClick and other platforms to promote the anti-Indian agenda. In the US, organizations like Code Pink have LED campaigns against Israel and the US
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Nomani called US anti-Semitism a long war of “malignant foreign influences.” The prejudice against Jews in Colombia and other universities suggests foreign support to mobilize this sentiment. The Gaza conflict continues as this hatred is weaponized.
President Donald Trump’s decision to cancel $400 million with federal funds to Columbia is a good start. His government must then prosecute individuals and organizations involved in the weaponization of anti-Semitistic sentiment. A victory in America is a victory for the world.
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