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Anna Betts

US House Democrat blasts Trump for using ‘antisemitism’ to attack universities

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Jerry Nadler in Washington DC on 15 May 2024. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

The representative Jerry Nadler of New York has slammed Donald Trump’s crackdown on American universities in the name of fighting antisemitism, saying that withholding federal funding from schools will “not make Jewish students safer”.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Democratic representative said he condemned Trump’s “latest attacks on higher education cloaked under the guise of fighting antisemitism”.

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