A robust majority of American Jews are sick of getting used as a software for President Donald Trump to hold out his intolerant agenda, in line with a ballot performed by Ipsos for researchers on the College of Rochester and the College of California.
Almost three-quarters of American Jews (72%) assume Trump is utilizing antisemitism as an “excuse” to tug analysis funding from schools and universities, in line with the survey. And 58% disagree with the Trump administration pausing or canceling a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} value of funding to Harvard College and College of California, Los Angeles, over his declare that the faculties didn’t defend college students from antisemitism.
“Overall, this national survey details how Jewish Americans do worry about the return of antisemitic sentiments. At the same time, this community does not believe that such concerns on college campuses warrant the Trump Administration’s attack on higher education,” wrote the report’s authors—James Druckman, a political science professor on the College of Rochester, and Bruce Fuller, a sociologist with the College of California, Berkeley. “A large majority reports that the president disingenuously exploits the issue, an ‘excuse’ to pause or cut research funding.”
Slashing analysis funding to universities like Harvard, Columbia, and UCLA over claims they didn’t fight antisemitism is simply one of many methods Trump and his administration cronies have used antisemitism as a pretext for a few of their worst actions.
Demonstrators with the group Jewish Voice for Peace protest inside Trump Tower in assist of Columbia graduate pupil Mahmoud Khalil on March 13 in New York.
For instance, Trump has tried to deport people who protested on faculty campuses towards Israel’s actions in its conflict towards Hamas. The administration additionally revoked a whole bunch of pupil visas over college students’ involvement in campus protests towards the conflict.
“If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us the reason you are coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus—we’re not going to give you a visa,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated earlier this 12 months. “Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa.”
What’s extra, the federal authorities has denied vacationers entry into america over their views on the conflict in Gaza.
In the end, American Jews overwhelmingly opposed Trump’s candidacy. A nonpartisan examine performed for the Jewish Citizens Institute by the Mellman Group discovered that 71% of Jewish voters backed Democrat Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election.
Now, Trump is utilizing these voters to hold out his antidemocratic agenda.
