Columbia Forced to Pay $220 Million After Trump Exposes Anti-Jewish Agenda

When did college stop being about learning and start becoming a playground for protest mobs? For years now, elite schools have traded tradition for slogans, replaced merit with ideology, and allowed masks — literal and metaphorical — to hide hate and chaos.

Parents no longer ask what their children will learn at college. They ask if their children will be safe. The warning signs were everywhere — antisemitic graffiti, violent encampments, shouted-down speakers. And now, finally, one of America’s top universities has been forced to face the consequences.

Let’s just say — when Columbia University pushed its progressive politics past the point of no return, they ran into the one man who always keeps receipts: President Donald J. Trump.

From ‘New York Post’:

The Trump administration has won unprecedented concessions from Columbia University in a sweeping settlement — with the Ivy League school paying more than $220 million and pledging to reverse racially discriminatory practices and resolve civil rights violations against Jewish students, The Post can exclusively reveal.

The settlement, under which Columbia will agree to submit to independent monitoring to ensure it is complying with merit-based hiring and admissions requirements, is likely to put pressure on other schools — like Harvard — that have crossed the White House over tolerance of extreme Jew-hatred on campus since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas against Israel.

Accountability comes to the Ivies

It’s official: Columbia is paying a staggering $220 million price tag for allowing antisemitism and race-based discrimination to fester inside its ivy-covered walls. The prestigious university is handing $200 million over to the federal government for violating student rights, and another $20+ million goes to Jewish faculty and staff.

And that’s not all. The Trump administration — now in its second term — forced the school to install strict reforms. That includes monitoring for race-based hiring, scrapping discriminatory “diversity statements,” and complying with the Supreme Court’s landmark 2023 ruling against affirmative action. This wasn’t just a case of student protests getting out of hand. This was a structural failure. And Trump made sure it didn’t go unpunished.

A costly lesson in wokeness

Columbia’s climbdown didn’t happen overnight. But when $400 million in research funding was frozen — with more than $1.2 billion at risk — university leaders suddenly found their principles weren’t worth as much as they thought.

Now? Columbia is bound by a three-year agreement to remake virtually every corner of campus policy. That includes banning masked protests, suspending and expelling rule-breakers, and revamping its foreign student policy with tighter federal oversight. Middle East studies departments — long plagued by ideological bias — will now be monitored for balance and fairness by outside officials. President Trump called the deal a “seismic shift.” He’s not wrong.

Bringing back merit and order

Among the biggest victories? Columbia will no longer be allowed to evaluate students based on personal statements about race or identity. DEI hiring protocols? Gone. Biological men in women’s sports? Not anymore.

The school must now enforce Title IX protections for women, report arrests and disciplinary actions involving international students to federal authorities, and hold professors accountable for biased curriculum content. In short, when the circus left town, adults had to clean up the mess — and the federal government brought the broom.

Just the beginning

If you think this ends with Columbia, think again. Harvard is already in the crosshairs. So are other elite campuses that took federal dollars while turning a blind eye to hate and chaos.

As Education Secretary Linda McMahon put it, this settlement lays out a “roadmap” for reforming institutions that have forgotten what real education means: truth, merit, and accountability.

For everyday Americans — especially older parents and grandparents who remember when college stood for excellence — this is a moment worth celebrating. The university system finally met its match. His name just happens to be Trump.

Key Takeaways

• Columbia agrees to $220M settlement after violating Jewish students’ civil rights.
• Trump administration secures sweeping reforms in hiring, admissions, and protest policy.
• University ends race-based programs and restores protections for women’s sports.
• Settlement sets a national precedent for restoring law and order to higher education.

Sources: New York Post, CNN

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