The University of Washington (UW) capitulated to an anti-Israel protest encampment by seeking ideas on “Palestine” studies from several figures, including a professor known for cheering on another violent protest.
A faculty committee that convened in October spent months building ideas to increase UW’s academic focus on Palestinian issues, according to emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. While pressure mounted on UW to quell antisemitism, the public university focused on consulting anti-Israel figures on and off-campus and a student group’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) office for its project.
President Donald Trump’s Education Department has since warned UW to “protect Jewish students” or lose federal funding. UW’s priorities collided with Trump’s in the past when he defunded China-linked “Confucius Institutes” at American universities in 2018, prompting UW to get rid of its own.
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