Columbia’s capitulation to Trump: Academia bows before dictatorship - World Socialist Web Site

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/24/rrkp-m24.html 

[ "In addition, the university announced the adoption of a new definition of antisemitism that includes criticism of Israel and “certain double standards applied to Israel,” a formulation designed to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism and suppress opposition to the crimes of the Israeli state. The actions taken by Columbia have vast implications for free speech and democratic rights, not only on its own campus but across the entire system of higher education in the United States. As WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North wrote in a statement on X: An American Trumpian version of what the Nazis called Gleichschaltung—the official subordination of intellectual and cultural life to Nazi ideology—is being implemented by leading “liberal” American universities. " ]