Columbia University Bends the Knee, Agrees to

Money talks, and Columbia University finally admitted that on Wednesday, after a beautiful settlement with the Trump administration was introduced. 

As Redstate reported, the Ivy League faculty has been a hotbed of pro-Hamas exercise, including antisemitic harassment and violence. In the Spring of 2024, just as the presidential marketing campaign was ramping up, terror supporters took over Hamilton Hall, barricading themselves inside and claiming to have liberated it. For months on finish, radicals waving “Palestinian” flags occupied the principal grounds, refusing to let Jews cross. 

All the while, Columbia directors sought appeasement as an alternative of order. It took Mayor Eric Adams giving the NYPD the inexperienced gentle to finally clear Hamilton Hall, but because of New York’s far-left prosecutors, few people had been punished. It was during this time that Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian national whom the Trump administration is presently attempting to deport for his pro-terrorism ties, grew to become a identified determine. 

While Joe Biden took no motion, and if something helped egg on the antisemitic, pro-terror chaos, the next president had different concepts, with the Trump White House immediately beginning an investigation. Before long, the penalties arrived in the kind of stripping lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in future grant money from Columbia. 

SEE: Consequences Arrive for Columbia University, Faculty Revolt Amid Impending Layoffs

Things snowballed from there, with Education Secretary Linda McMahon asserting in early June that the faculty had violated Title IV protections by refusing to rein in the pro-Hamas crowd. At first, Columbia remained defiant, but it appears like they did the math and figured it was time to bend the knee. 

BREAKING via AP

Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal authorities to restore federal analysis money that was canceled by the Trump administration, which accused the college of failing to squelch…

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 24, 2025

Columbia University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal authorities to restore federal analysis money that was canceled in the identify of combating antisemitism on campus, the college introduced Wednesday.

Under the settlement, the Ivy League faculty pays a $200 million settlement over three years, the college stated. It will also pay $21 million to settle investigations introduced by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

“This agreement marks an important step forward after a period of sustained federal scrutiny and institutional uncertainty,” performing University President Claire Shipman stated.

The Trump administration pulled the funding, because of what it described as the college’s failure to squelch antisemitism on campus during the Israel-Hamas warfare that started in October 2023.

The $221 million positive will likely be paid out over the next three years. In exchange, Columbia may have its federal grants restored. Further, and maybe most significantly, the faculty has agreed to fully overhaul its disciplinary system. That ought to hopefully lead to precise penalties for future pro-terror lunatics who resolve to occupy public areas and propagate antisemitic assaults. If it would not, then the Trump administration can merely pull the grants again. 

In different phrases, Columbia has every incentive to comply with through right here, and the truth that they even made this deal exhibits they need this subject to go away.

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