On Tuesday, Princeton’s University said the US government has stiffened dozens of research grants to school, which became the latest academic institution focused on Trump’s administration in the intervention of what anti -Semitism on campuses, Reuters reported.
President of Princeton Chris Eisgruber said government agencies, including NASA and defensive and energy departments, announced the university of this move. The university said he had not received any reason for the action in his statement and did not provide the value of the dollar for grants.
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Trump’s administration threatened to reduce the federal funding of universities on their alleged tolerance of anti-Semitism and over accusations of protecting Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests.
“We are determined to fight anti -Semitism and all forms of discrimination and cooperate with the government in the fight against anti -Semitism. Princeton also strongly defends academic freedom and rights to the proper process of this university,” Eisgruber said.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Energy said that the agency “suspended a grant financing at the University of Princeton until the investigation of the Ministry of Education in Princeton on anti -Semitic harassment”. Last month, the Ministry of Education sent a letter to 60 universities, including Princeton, and warned that it could bring coercive measures against them.
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Other federal agencies had no immediate comment, Reuters reported.
The protesters, including some Jewish groups, say that President Donald Trump’s administration incorrectly associates their criticism of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza and advocates Palestinian rights with anti -Semitism and the support of Militants Hamas.
The latest bloodshed in the decade of the old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was launched in October 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, killed 1200 and took about 250 hostages, according to Israeli plates.
According to local health officials, the subsequent military attack on the Hamas-Gaza gaza killed over 50,000 Palestinians according to local health officials, and at the same time induced charges of genocide and war crimes that Israel denies. The attack internally displaced almost 2.3 million Gaza populations and caused a hungry crisis.
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Trump’s administration also reviews $ 9 billion in federal contracts and grants granted to Harvard University.
Last month, the federal government canceled $ 400 million financing at Columbia University, which was a hotspot for the protests of the Palestinian campus.
In recent weeks, agents for immigration and enforcement of customs have arrested several protesting foreign students and in the process of deportation.
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Trump’s administration also focused on other universities on cultural issues such as diversity, justice and programs of integration. In addition, he suspended $ 175 million financing for Pennsylvania University in Pennsylvania because of his politics for Transgender Sports.
The law advisors raised concerns about Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias, but Trump’s administration in response to these problems must still announce any steps.
(With Reuters inputs)
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