The war against woke has reached the doors of America’s most hallowed institutions, but the university heads aren’t going down without a fight, proving once and for all that they are on the wrong side of history.

Former chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s board of trustees, Scott Bok, told Politico in an extensive interview that he believes the Trump administration’s fight against growing antisemitism on college campuses is actually “an attack on so-called woke.”

Bok said it was “clear early on” that the pushback against violent campus protests had become a political and cultural struggle that was less about antisemitism and more as a way to end DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) or other left-wing ideologies at America’s universities.

.@POTUS signs an Executive Order to overhaul the higher education accreditation system, ensuring colleges and universities deliver high-quality, high-value education free from unlawful discrimination and ideological overreach. pic.twitter.com/4Odawv9g2E

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 23, 2025

“If you look at where universities are today, and what’s going on between the government and Harvard and Penn and Columbia and Johns Hopkins and all the rest, it’s pretty clear that this has got a very broad reach in terms of what those attacking universities........

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