“It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.” —Noah Webster (1790)

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week on anti-Semitism in America, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declared that the Democrat Party has a “deep and pervasive problem confronting” anti-Semitism. Not one Democrat showed up for that hearing.

Leftists will feign shock and dismay at this assertion, but it should surprise nobody.

The Democrat Party has a long and sordid history of racism. Its leaders were, are, and will continue to be the agents of Black oppression. Democrats are now simultaneously the historical authors and political beneficiaries of systemic racism, which they have institutionalized over the last century.

It is Democrat policies that have kept generations of poor, mostly-Black Americans ensnared and enslaved on urban poverty plantations — which they both seeded and cultivated since the 1960s.

Fact is, Democrats are the architects of white supremacy, so why would anyone be surprised that their academic institutions are now promoting anti-Semitism?

There is now an unprecedented partisan gap of 50 points (83%-33%) between Republican and Democrat support for Israel.

And that gap is about to get bigger…

Recall that the week after Donald Trump took office, he issued an executive order titled, “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism.” It was a directive ordering all government agencies to confront anti-Semitism within their bureaucracies and to withdraw any funding from taxpayer-supported institutions that do not prosecute those who promote hatred toward Jews and other groups.

This aggressive defense of Jews is coming from the man Demos have repeatedly claimed is “literally Hitler.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made clear that the Trump administration has “zero tolerance for foreign visitors who support terrorists” because they “threaten our national security.” His warning was aimed specifically at international students, who would be subject to “visa denial or revocation, and deportation” for actions supporting organizations such as the fascist Hamas network responsible for the barbaric October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel.

This past weekend, ICE agents arrested radical Syrian Islamist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the pro-Hamas demonstrations by students and others at Columbia University. Astoundingly, Columbia had posted a “protocol” with phone numbers for free legal advice if its Jew-hating Middle Eastern students were questioned by law enforcement, including advice on how university staff could obstruct ICE agents.

Of Khalil’s arrest, Trump warmed: “This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country – never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here.”

Apparently, the academic elite at Columbia thought Trump was joking … until they then got notice that the U.S. government was revoking $400 million in grants and contracts. And Leo Terrell, who leads the Justice Department Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, let Columbia know — and by extension every other elitist university — that losing its $400 million in taxpayer subsidies was “just the beginning.”

Naturally, Democrats are defending Columbia, with New York Demo Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Adriano Espaillat declaring that the Trump administration’s actions constitute a “war on education and science” that “sends a chilling message that universities must align with the MAGA agenda or face financial ruin.” Well, if “aligning with the MAGA agenda” means defending “students targeted by radical mobs,” sign me up!

And now, after four long years of systemic “redlining” of free speech by the Biden/Harris regime, in collaboration with their Leftmedia and social media propagandists, Demos are now claiming that curbing hate speech and violence on college and university campuses violates free speech. Go figure.

Predictably, the ACLU is defending Khalil, insisting, “This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threat, to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years.”

The administration knew that the arrest would draw HAMAS sympathizers out of their rat holes, and arrests of protesters followed in New York City and Washington DC.

In other good academic news overshadowed by the $400 million penalty against Columbia, the University of Virginia’s board of visitors adopted a plan to “dissolve all Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs on campus as well as all DEI offices and positions across the UVA system.”

According to The Wall Street Journal: “This is a major departure for UVA, which has been all-in for DEI. In 2020 the school’s Racial Equity Task Force called for $950 million for racial equity initiatives. By 2021 the school tied for the second largest number of DEI personnel among major universities with 94 and had 6.5 DEI staff for every 100 professors. … In March 2024, Open the Books reported UVA was spending $20 million a year for 235 DEI employees.”

In response, UVA’s Faculty Senate Executive Council committee chair, Eric Ramirez-Weaver, insisted his committee would look for “workarounds” to preserve the racist preferences and figure out “how new recruiting techniques can be done post the Harvard decision.” That is a reference to the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision striking down race-based admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

Notably, Virginia’s Jefferson Council is also going after free speech suppressors, declaring, “UVA has fallen into a monoculture that rejects the free exchange of competing ideas.” Expect to see more reforms correcting this disgraceful circumstance at a university founded on the fundamentals of American Liberty.

The Harvard/UNC decision launched far-reaching and long-overdue corrections not just in academia but in many large corporations, including the META/Facebook/Instagram conglomerate and other Big Tech companies, which are moving to eliminate their biased DEI practices.

Of course, what some companies and institutions are doing is removing the DEI label and calling the same activity something else, but in the case of UVA, defunding the DEI network entirely should bury it.

Finally, I previously wrote about my cousin David Decosimo in a column titled, “A Brave Voice in the Leftist Academic Wasteland.” David was a bold lone voice of dissent at Boston University, challenging Ibram Xolani Kendi, a.k.a. Henry Rogers, the loudest purveyor of the critical race theory fraud. That scam metastasized from the specious and historically fallacious 1619 Project.

Over the last decade, Kendi has been employed by six universities. Since 2020, he has been indoctrinating his lemmings as a “professor of history” at Boston University, which hosted his so-called Center for Antiracist Research.

Last month, BU decided it’d had enough of the Kendi grift and booted him down to Howard University, his new safe space for hate.

So, what happened to Professor David Decosimo?

Well, good things have been brewing at the University of North Carolina since the Harvard/UNC SCOTUS decision striking down race-based admissions, and David is now part of that genesis.

Recall that last May, UNC students rose up against anti-Semitic campus protests. In one symbolic incident that became national news, they took down a Hamas flag that protesters had raised on campus and restored our American flag to its rightful place.

They were backed by UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts, who declared: “This university doesn’t belong to a small group of protesters. It belongs to every citizen of North Carolina. Everybody in North Carolina, everybody who goes to school here, everybody who lives and works here. The flag represents all of us. Take down that flag, and put up another flag, no matter what flag it is — that’s antithetical to who we are, what this university stands for.”

He concluded that the American flag “will stand here as long as I’m chancellor.”

Among other great things that have happened at UNC since Lee Roberts took the helm last year is the creation of its School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCLL), which he calls “the most important initiative” on UNC’s campus. Headed by Dean Jed Atkins, the SCLL mission is to “prepare students for the responsibilities of citizenship and civic leadership by fostering a free-speech culture and providing an education grounded in encouraging the human search for meaning and developing the capacities for civil discourse and wise decision-making.”

And that is precisely where David Decosimo landed as an associate professor. He will no doubt be a voice for freedom and reason at UNC. That being said, the startup SCLL is not without its problems, and one of those threatening the future of this free speech sanctuary is Dean Jed Atkins, who may have had great vision for the founding of the school, but who seems to have been unprepared for the academic storm ahead.

(Update SCLL’s Jed Atkins, is under fire for his lack of management and operational capabilities, and he is proving to be the schools Achilles’ Heel. While he continues to have the support of UNC’s Chancellor and Board of Trustees, and the North Carolina legislature, he has lost the confidence and support of the schools key faculty and staff.)

Oh, and UNC’s board of trustees voted to eliminate their $2.3 million in DEI funding and redirect the funds to improve campus police operations. This is clearly a shot across the bow of Hamas and other leftist protesters.

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776

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