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President Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of education, Linda McMahon, testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing, Feb. 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Trump guts Department of Education, slashing office handling antisemitism complaints
By Philissa Cramer
Dismantling the department has long been a Republican ambition.
President Trump posted a message on Truth Social that put social media and college campuses, including Columbia University, on high alert, March 4, 2025. (Truth Social)
March 12, 2025, 3:26 pm
As ICE targets Palestinian activist, some Jews ask if this is the fight they signed up for
Leaders who denounced campus antisemitism caution about the use of the issue as justification for President Trump’s broader agenda.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
President Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of education, Linda McMahon, testifies during her Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing, Feb. 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
March 12, 2025, 12:41 pm
Trump guts Department of Education, slashing office handling antisemitism complaints
Dismantling the department has long been a Republican ambition.
By Philissa Cramer
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
March 10, 2025, 7:44 am
ICE arrests Palestinian protest leader at Columbia, in sharp escalation of campus actions
Jewish groups and leaders immediately spoke out both in favor and against the arrest
By Ben Sales
A view of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library in New York, Sept. 25, 2019 (Josefin Dolsten)
March 7, 2025, 4:19 pm
Trump administration cancels $400M of grants to Columbia U over campus antisemitism
The announcement did not detail which grants were canceled, nor what they funded.
By Ben Sales
Yael Alexander, mother of hostage Edan Alexander, speaks to The Times of Israel on Feb. 23, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 5, 2025, 2:03 pm
In 1st, US holding secret direct talks with Hamas to free American hostages, end war
Trump’s envoy talking directly to terror group in Qatar, despite US’s designation of Hamas as terror group; US consulted Israel on idea, but not all aspects of talks
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Kingsley WIlson was recently appointed as deputy press secretary at the Pentagon. (X)
March 5, 2025, 1:40 pm
Pentagon official posted neo-Nazi talking point about Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank last year
The Frank post is one of several times Kingsley Wilson’s tweets have used the same language as antisemitic conspiracy theories.
By Ben Sales
Ohio Sen. and Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance attends the third day of Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, July 17, 2024. (Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
February 16, 2025, 12:10 pm
JD Vance tells German leaders to abandon their ‘firewall’ against the far right
Vance’s speech came after he visited Dachau, a Nazi concentration camp, and just before Germany’s national elections.
By Ben Sales
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