The Trump administration demanded, in a letter of Thursday March 13, “Put under academic supervision” of the Department of Near and African Studies of Columbia University “For at least five years”. An unprecedented questioning of academic freedom which extends the war waged by the American president against the Manhattan institution. Columbia University has become the epicenter of student mobilization against the bombing carried out on Gaza by Israel, in reaction to the terrorist attack of October 7.
The presidential team had started its attacks on the financial front, announcing, Friday, March 7, the abolition of a federal subsidy of $ 400 million (366 million euros). The next day, she had arrested the Syrian Mahmoud Khalil, one of the leaders of the Propalestinian protest on the campus. His green card had been revoked by the Secretary of State in person, Marco Rubio. The 30 -year -old man married to an American, was placed in a detention center in Louisiana. Friday, federal authorities announced that they had arrested a second Palestinian student involved in the pro-Gaza demonstrations in Columbia. Academic, financial and human destabilization, the offensive is total.
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