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Columbia University to pay $200m to settle anti-Semitism claims

Students sit on the front steps of the Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York City, on February 10, 2023 [Ted Shaffrey/AP]

Columbia University, one of the top educational institutions in the United States, has agreed to pay $221m to settle claims by US President Donald Trump’s administration that it failed to police anti-Semitism on campus.

Under the agreement announced on Wednesday, Columbia will see the “vast majority” of $400m in federal grants frozen by the Trump administration reinstated, the New York-based university said.

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