By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2025-04-01 17:11:48 | Updated at 2025-04-05 17:46:00
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An anti-Israel protest at Harvard University on April 25, 2024.
AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File
The Trump administration’s drive to clean up woke elite universities continues, with Princeton and the big tuna, Harvard, both under the microscope.
Princeton reportedly faces a pause on some $210 million in federal funds as the Department of Education investigates it for allowing antisemitism to fester unchecked, concealed as pro-Palestinian protests.
Harvard has even bigger financial woes possibly in train, with the feds probing some $8.7 billion in grants and $255 million in contracts with the world’s richest university and premier destination for whiny rich kids, Jew-hating keffiyeh thugs and the rest of the ugly left-wing panoply.
These are some of the marquee moves in the Trump admin’s 60-school probe.
And they are beyond necessary.
Elite schools across America revealed a mile-wide exception for Jews in their purported defense of marginalized and minority groups during the Tentifada that sprang up in support of the monstrous butcheries of Oct. 7.
But the real problem is far deeper: The Ivies and other top schools abandoned their commitment to actually teaching kids anything long ago.
And the first Trump term, COVID and the 2020 Floyd riots only served to supercharge their transformation into simply indoctrination centers.
Even as leaders across top-tier schools were revealed as utter fakes and frauds, like Claudine Gay, Harvard’s former prez and a serial plagiarist.
Or Stanford head Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who quit in 2023 after it was revealed labs he ran had published fake data including in papers with his name as principal author.
These places, in other words, have spent a decade enthusiastically shredding any claim to legitimacy — let alone to taxpayer dollars.
Now the Trump White House is simply forcing them to follow their own rules.
That’s the real source of all the whining and screaming (well, that and the fact that our professoriate hates America and loves her enemies).
The only way to end the madness is to hit the schools in their pocketbooks.
It’s slowly but surely working on Columbia and it’s going to work everywhere else.
That’s a good thing — as all the panicked squealing proves.
