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This has nothing to do with Israel or even antisemitism. The administration just doesn't like Harvard and they'll use whatever justification they think has the best chance of of holding up in court

There are definitely people in the admin who are full-throated supporters of the current Israeli government and its war, and I find it hard to believe that it didn't enter into the equation.

It doesn't have to be either-or. There's both generic anti-intellectualism, and specifically revenge for the protests.

That has nothing to do with it. They made the same demands of Colombia, who agreed to their demands; the result was just more demands. This is about exercising power and establishing dominance, not about Israel.

You get what you pay for. Capitalism 1.0 -- just unveiled being like it ever was. That's what happens when a (pseudo-) democracy never gets fixed, because everyone in the upper class thinks to get away best _with_ all the loopholes.

A president reigning at will, no court being able to really stop the shit show and undoing former president's pardons while using pardons as a tool to side-track courts. The whole construct didn't -- and doesn't -- make sense, if you still aim for anything not being despotism.

Always has been. Many such cases.