On Thursday, university professors and students across the United States staged a protest in campuses against the Trump administration’s measures in education.
Demonstrators say widespread attacks on higher education, including large -scale funds, deportation of international students and suppressing freedom of expression about Israeli aggression on Gaza.
The demonstrations took place in several universities, including Harvard University, where President Donald Trump’s administration announced the freezing of $ 2 billion 20 million grants and contracts given to the university and threatened to abolish the university’s international students.
Raheel Sun, a student graduating in the Harvard Department of Government, said she was supporting international students because these students are essential for the university’s purpose that is related to expanding the ‘limits of human knowledge’.
After protests in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sun said, “The main purpose of my education and research is to be among the best scholars in the world.” If these students are not with me, I will not be able to achieve my goals here. ‘
Sun had picked up a poster on which he wrote, ‘I should have written my dissertation, but I am constantly fighting against this stupid fascism.’
Addressing the protesters, professor of pandemic diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health, addressing the protesters, spoke on deductions in programs that are essential to monitoring medical discoveries and public health.
He said: ‘We are doing our job to create a better world where all the people on this planet can develop equally.’
Craiger said his grant was removed by the National Institutes of Health at the end of February because it was based on research on discrimination in the health sector and private companies or welfare institutions would hardly provide funds.
“We must spend this money on research, educational activities and training and teaching of the next generation so that they can ensure public health,” Curigger said in the echo of the protesters’ slogans.
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The increasing number of higher education institutions is being targeted by the government in preventing federal funding so that they can be bound by the Trump administration’s political agenda.
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Threats to some of the top US universities and subsequent fund suspension have provided the administration with an extraordinary weapon to influence educational institutions, which is not the first example.
During his election campaign last year, Trump announced that he would focus on cuts in the funds of institutions that promote ‘critical ethnic ideology, madness of transgender rights, and other inappropriate ethnic, sex or political content’.
Republican officials also strictly monitored the universities where Palestinians were protesting in favor of Palestinians during Israeli invasion of Gaza last year, while several IV League universities presented before the Congress on allegations of anti -Jewish enmity.
Trump and other officials have accused protesters and their supporters of being ‘Hamas Nawaz’. Many protesters say they were raising their voice against Israel’s actions during the conflict.
The US government, using its immigration powers, launched actions against the international students and scholars who participated in demonstrations in favor of Palestinians or criticized Israeli military action in Gaza.
Some of them were detained or deported while other students left the United States because they found out that their visas had been canceled.
The protest in Harvard on Thursday happened when the university first opened up in front of the Trump administration’s demands a few days ago.
The administration called for widespread changes to restrict activities on the campus. The university believes that these demands are not only for the IV League institution but also to the sovereignty that the US Supreme Court has long given to the US universities.
On the other hand, about 400 people gathered at the University of California Berkeley to protest, where former professor and former Labor Minister Robert Raheed criticized the policy of appearing Trump in addressing the protesters.
“You cannot please any oppressor,” said Rais, who served in the cabinet of former President Bill Clinton. Columbia University tried to please a tyrant, which did not succeed. ‘
Columbia University in New York initially acknowledged several demands of the Trump administration, but on Monday, the acting president of the university, in his message, took a relatively harsh tone, saying that some demands could not be discussed.
The University of Columbia, where there were widespread protests in favor of the Palestinians last year, in which about a hundred people protested.
Demonstrators gathered outside a federal offices building and posters in their hands that had slogans like ‘Stop fighting universities’ and’ Censorship’s weapon ‘weapons’.
The demonstrations were organized by the Coalition for Action in Higher Education, which included groups like ‘Higher Education Labor United’ and ‘American Federation of Teachers’.
Speaking on the phone, Kelly Benjamin, a spokesman for the American Association of University Professors, said that the Trump administration’s purpose of destroying educational institutions is primarily anti -US.
According to Benjamin: ‘Colleges in the United States have historically been places where such debates, strong arguments and disagreements are. It is healthy for democracy, but the administration wants to end everything so that it can enforce its agenda and ideology. ‘
