A s antisemitism has been ratcheting up over the last few years, I’ve been thinking a lot about Karl Marx’s essay “On the Jewish Question.” The recent decision by the Trump administration to withdraw $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University has got me thinking of it again.
President Donald Trump’s directives on antisemitism have brought a Syrian-born leader of a violent pro-Hamas protest into custody, stripped of
Former Harvard University president Lawrence Summers has been sharply critical of elite universities’ responses to campus antisemitism and the pro-Palestinian student protest movement. But in a Globe interview Monday, Summers denounced what the Trump administration has described as efforts to address both issues.