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Robert Tait

Columbia adopts controversial definition of antisemitism amid federal grants freeze

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Students walk across the main campus of Columbia University in New York City, on 12 April. Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters

Columbia University has agreed to adopt a controversial definition of antisemitism as it pursues an agreement with the Trump aimed at restoring $400m in federal government grants frozen over its alleged failure to protect Jewish students.

In a letter to students and staff, the university’s acting president, Claire Shipman, said it would incorporate the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism into its anti-discrimination policies as part of a broad overhaul.

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