Price for Columbia’s Anti-Semitism: $400 Million

President Trump yesterday cut $400 million in federal funding to Columbia University in New York after its hapless administration sat and watched as pro-Hamas mobs have taken over buildings on the campus, menaced Jewish students, and disseminated Hamas propaganda. There’s $3 billion more federal funds at stake—along with $10 billion from other independent donors.

So the strategy of pusillanimous college deans, professors and presidents sitting back in ivory towers and simply watching American higher education being turned over to masked, keffiyeh-wearing nihilists isn’t an option any longer. They’re going to be forced to rein in the lunatic fringe that has sunk deep fangs into academia or come to grips with forgoing their funding and holding classes in tents while paying their faculty in live chickens, hard tack, and cans of beans.

And speaking of chickens, in no other place on the planet have they come home to roost as here and now on American college campuses. The surly, rabid, hate-filled agenda of the new faux-progressivism that has infected the intellectual zeitgeist of American higher learning has become so toxic, so cancerous, so self-destructive that it’s jettisoned all semblance of hiding in the least the visceral disdain it has for the very nation that sustains it. The masks are long since removed, and the face the American people are seeing now quite plainly is one that shocks, angers and disgusts them.

It’s hardly just Jews that far-left anti-Semites abhor. For years on college campuses manic extremism has constantly pushed the hatred-for-country and death-to-civilization mantra further and further toward the cliff. It’s become the bizarre hallmark of university culture. On many California college campuses, for example, there have been repeated attempts to ban the American flag since it’s considered “offensive” and “triggering.” And at colleges throughout the country, in exactly the same way inmates would take over asylums, it’s the students demanding that they grade themselves, or that grades, being oppressive, shouldn’t even be part of a career at university.

Such free-thinkers have indeed, and sadly, made their mark on Columbia and thousands of other colleges. They’ve terrified biologists and geneticists to kowtow to their mass delusion that no one can tell what a woman is—except biologists—who, shaking in their boots, are only too happy to pretend along with the shouting rabble that men in lipstick and wearing skirts certainly pass that bar. They’ve bullied mathematicians into either agreeing with them that math is “racist!” or else hold their tongues and bear the affront in silence. And they’ve converted environmental science into a shadow of a discipline, nothing more than a sideshow where barkers harangue the carnival-goers with the same Chicken Little litany: the world’s going to end in ten years—yet repeated every ten years, and since 1989.

Puffed up, elitist, self-obsessed university presidents have brought all this to their own doorstep with their liberalism turned into fanaticism. They’ve watched their worldview metastasize in front of their faces for decades now, and cowardly shrugged when it morphed into adding Jew-hatred to its panoply of collective insanities. There are no more deserving people on Earth to be placed between the rock and the hard place they now find themselves.

The president of the United States has appropriately yanked almost a half billion dollars from Columbia’s coffers and is threatening to follow that up by taking three billion more. Administrators can either turn Columbia back into a place where Jewish students and everyone else can peacefully and safely live, work, and study, or welcome that new and enlightened era which they’ve always feigned to await with bated breath: there’s a world of no filthy lucre, no money in your future, comrades, coming right up.