Summary
Rep. Jerry Nadler accused Trump of exploiting antisemitism to justify political crackdowns on elite universities.
Nadler said Trump “doesn’t give a damn about antisemitism” and is weaponizing Jewish concerns to impose control over academia.
The administration has suspended or threatened over $10 billion in federal funding to schools like Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton.
Nadler warned that curbing campus free speech would harm Jews and condemned Trump for gutting civil rights enforcement. He also criticized universities for capitulating and urged legal resistance to what he called unconstitutional coercion.
When there are Jewish students participating in these protests, there should be no room left for the “antisemitic” argument. But here we are.
Israel played the religion card, and by doing so they did a great job of establishing the narrative that opposing Israel means you are an antisemite. The word has been weaponized. Actually antisemitic people like Trump who support Israel for political reasons get to hide behind it as a shield, meanwhile semitic people are being labeled as antisemites.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
Zionism is a genocidal ideology that never made sense.