Mobs of keffiyeh-wearing undergraduates swarming and bullying Jewish students on US college campuses have given the world an astounding glimpse into the shocking state of America’s elite universities. The ugly and depressing image is one of world-class educational institutions having been converted into indoctrination centers under the thumb of fringe leftist thuggery. The rot oozing onto the campuses of Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Stanford, UCLA, et al, and plainly aired on media broadcast around the globe, sadly isn’t just surface decay; the decomposition has spread to the core, so blatant and outrageous as to have the federal authorities now moving in to stamp it out.

In 2025 the US Department of Justice (DOJ) found that at UCLA Jewish and Israeli researchers were subjected to “severe, pervasive and objectively offensive” harassment, with the university being “deliberately indifferent to the hostile environment.” The Trump administration has suspended hundreds of pricey science grants to UCLA and is threatening to cut off more funding if the abuse isn’t eradicated.

At Harvard University—where 60% of Jewish students complain of bias and discrimination—the US Department of Education and DOJ are currently reviewing all of that college’s federal contracts and are warning that they’ll all be terminated if the university........

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