On Saturday, a group of anti-Israel student protesters at Columbia University criticized the Trump administration's decision to withdraw more than $400 million in federal grants to universities suspected of failing to address anti-Semitism on campus during a demonstration held in the aftermath of the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The student group Columbia University Apartheid responded on social media for the first time since the administration's decision was announced on social media on Saturday night. The group criticized it as “transparent scary tactics.”
“The Trump administration's announcement that it plans to cancel $400 million on federal grants and contracts with Columbia is a transparent, scary tactic,” the group wrote in an Instagram slideshow. “This decision has nothing to do with the manufactured accusations of anti-Semitism that they use as thin covers to cut funds.”
“The federal government is once again trying to extend the US-backed US-backed cleansing of genocide and ethnic groups of Palestinians in Gaza and Palestinians in the West Bank.
Columbia is ready to work with Trump to intensify its “on paper only” disciplinary process
Student protesters will avoid the camp at Columbia University campus in New York on Monday, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Eremiya)
The group said the final two months of a “hacking job” by President Donald Trump and his senior adviser Elon Musk will “destroy public institutions.”
Katrina Armstrong, the university's interim president, responded to Trump's funding cuts on Friday, saying the university is ready to cut “very seriously” and work with the federal government on “legitimate concerns.”
“When I accepted the role of interim president in August 2024, I knew that Columbia needed a reset from the previous year and that it would require a disruption in campus campus and protests,” Armstrong wrote. “The university also had to acknowledge and repair the damages to Jewish students who were targeted, harassed and felt unwelcome last spring on campus.”
Trump will cut Colombia's more than $400 million grants over anti-Semitism concerns.
Columbia University, where students set up what is known as Gaza Solidarity, is on display in New York on April 24, 2024. (Getty Images)
Student protesters asked in an Instagram post, “Who will President Armstrong serve?”
The group said the university has spent the past 17 months “softening Zionists and fascists.” This includes reducing diversity, equity, inclusion programs, increasing surveillance, and even banishing Palestinian students, and even brutally laying off wealthy donors “Whatsed Chats” and Palestinian workers, agreeing to “cruelly “arrest protesters.”
Student protesters said the university also refused to appeal to sell it from Israel.
Pool Palestinian students will be performing a demonstration on Thursday, April 18th, 2024 at the Columbia University campus in New York City. (Peter Gerber from Fox News Digital)
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“Columbia University is bent backwards to satisfy the Zionist death machine. [sic] Award your own student, former IOF [Israel Occupying Force] After attacking protesters and monitoring and closing the Harlem community, were thousands of dollars worth it? “The group wrote in the caption of an Instagram post.
“The agency will never keep us safe,” he continued. “These cuts won't hurt Armstrong's pockets. Instead, our most marginalized community will bear the brunt of its impact.
The social media post featured several slides, including one that said “Zionists don't love you” and another that called for “organized resistance to obvious injustice.”
