Harvard, Columbia, U. Pennsylvania, etc. are among the best in the world, and definitely THE best in the US. They are incubators of innovation and new ideas that pull the entire country behind them as it changes and evolves for the better. It was the students at these and other university campuses that forced the US government to divest from apartheid South Africa in the mid-1990s.
Because these same campuses are leading the charge to divest from apartheid genocidal Israel, the illiterate Moron-in-Chief is attacking them for two simple reasons:
- They recruit much much smarter people - professors, researchers and students - from around the world than the rampant mediocrity of MAGA-affiliated institutions of abysmal learning like the so-called "Christian" universities where the bible is taught in lieu of Darwin's "On The Origin of Species", where non-Christian students are rarely admitted, and which produce the intellectually enslaved morons that populate most of the southern and midwestern states of the Union.
I am specifically referring to Evangelical Protestant institutions like Jerry Falwwell's Liberty University and others of that brand of educational institutions that teach the religious charlatanism known as "Creation Science". There are many Protestant and Catholic universities around the country that adhere to the highest scientific and intellectual standards without succumbing to the same level of backwardness as the Evangelical institutions and, quite the contrary, that encourage academic freedom and open-minded scientific quest for the truth, even if they conflict with their churches' teachings and beliefs. I once attended a seminar at a Jesuit university in the midwest where 90% of the invited speakers frontally attacked the Catholic Church for its painfully slow adaptation to scientific discoveries. The school's administration - clergymen for the most part - was in attendance and no one was offended.
- The second reason for Donald Dumb's wrath against liberal universities is that he is enslaved by the Zionists around him. Given that he is a moron, he is easily manipulated and brainwashed with ideas that promote the interests of his Zionist minders and handlers. The latest example is how Elon Musk convinced the Moron-in-Chief that South Africa is committing genocide against its white foreign settler population. Similarly, Donald Dumb doesn't understand a thing about the conflict in Palestine, and he is directed to obey whatever his Zionist handlers tell him.
Liberal universities are powerful agents of change and as such, by default, they go against the fossilized barbarian mindset of conservatism that hates change. All the societal evolutions - women's rights, civil rights, gay rights, workers' rights, etc.. that took place over the past century in an otherwise deeply rural, ignorant, illiterate and conservative American society were the products of vanguard thinkers and students on liberal campuses.
At the present time, the illiterate cognitively-impaired Moron-in-Chief who can barely read from a teleprompter, is being instructed by his Zionist Fascist handlers to attack anything and anyone with a hint of sympathy for the colonized, brutalized, starved, murdered civilian population in Palestine. Students who get their letters-to-the-editor published in their campus newspaper; professors whose research points to a systematic genocide being carried out by the Zionist settlers of Palestine; foreign students who usually are selected from among the best around the world, and who are therefore knowledgeable of the truth in Palestine, etc. All these people are being arrested, fired from their jobs, harassed, exiled in prisons thousands of miles away from their home states.... Just like Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades: Kill, exile, assassinate, deport, imprison, demolish homes, destroy indigenous villages, uproot millennial olive groves....
There is no natural convergence between American public opinion and Zionist propaganda. It's all engineered. If you discuss Palestine with the average American, you'll quickly realize that they know the only fake narrative and facts that are allowed in the US: those promoted by the Zionist colonial enterprise. US public opinion is the only public opinion in around the world that doesn't have at least a nuanced or balanced understanding of the conflict in Palestine.
Qatar, the country that is offering a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Moron-in-Chief and that has been playing the mediator on the Zionist genocide in Gaza, has a flagship television news channel of the highest quality and professionalism: Al-Jazeera. Guess what: Al-Jazeera is prohitibed from broadcasting in the US. Why? Because it does present the Palestinian narrative alongside the Israeli one. But the Zionists don't want the truth, they don't want balance in the information, they fear that Americans might escape from the information gulag in which they are kept. If the average American is informed of the truth and of both narratives, the basic common sense of Americans will immediately win them over to the cause of the real victim, Palestine. Dare say one word against Israel, and you are immediately tasered into submission by the scarecrow of antisemitism that Americans are battered with from the moment they are born.
That is why the illiterate Moron-in-Chief is very happy to go after the much smarter people (than him) of the best universities and colleges in the US: He is scared shitless of them, for their academic and scientific method are the antidote to the primtiveness and backwardness of American conservatism with its baggage of racism, segregation, and ignorance.
Someone once said that not all conservatives are dumb people, but ALL dumb people are conservative.
Trump’s ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy
The Trump administration’s efforts to block international students from Harvard could come at a hefty price — and not just for the university.
Harvard students are top innovators in the country, with foreign-born alumni leading dozens of successful startups.
Besides their business contributions, international students more broadly make up a sizeable portion of spending in their areas, throwing almost $44 billion into the U.S. economy.
“We turn global talent away at our own expense. Losing international students’ contributions will negatively impact domestic students’ understanding of the world and have dire consequences for the country’s economic strength, security, and global competitiveness,” said Fanta Aw, executive director and CEO of the Association of International Educators, or NAFSA, in a statement.
“These outcomes run counter to the administration’s stated goal of making America safer, stronger, and more prosperous,” Aw added.
Along with saying new international talent cannot come to Harvard, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week demanded that current foreign students leave the school for other colleges.
A judge on Friday temporarily blocked the move and scheduled a hearing for Thursday to consider a longer pause. District Judge Allison Burroughs noted Harvard’s concern “it will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.”
If a later ruling allows the ban to move forward, Harvard would feel the pinch immediately: 27 percent of its student body, or some 6,800 attendees, in the 2024-2025 academic year was made up of international students, who typically pay more in tuition and other costs than domestic ones.
According to NAFSA data, international students at Harvard contribute approximately $383.6 million annually to the area economy, supporting around 3,910 jobs.
In the 2023-2024 academic year, Harvard’s international students made up 54.5 percent of the total spending by foreign students studying in Massachusetts’s 5th Congressional District.
The state sees almost $4 billion a year in foreign students’ spending, with Harvard making up around 10 percent of that.
International scholars spend money on tuition and books, but also on accommodations, dining, retail, health insurance, telecommunication and transportation, NAFSA notes.
Around two-dozen billion-dollar U.S. startups were founded by foreign students who studied at Harvard, according to an analysis from Axios.
And the effects could soon ripple out. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made clear in her announcement of the Harvard ban that other colleges that displease the Trump administration could follow suit, calling it “a warning to every other university to get your act together.”
For every three international students, one job was created in the U.S., according to NAFSA. In total, foreign students supported or created almost 380,000 jobs.
The situation for international students in the U.S. was already perilous, with hundreds seeing their visas pulled, sometimes with little explanation. In many high profile cases, the government has gone after students who were involved in the pro-Palestinian movement on their campuses.
Harvard’s lawsuit against DHS’s move is the second it has filed against the Trump administration; the first last month came after the government froze billions of dollars in federal funding when the university refused to bow to its demands to change its hiring and admissions policies, as well as eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion on campus.
President Trump has also called for the IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status.
The administration accuses Harvard and other schools of failing to protect their students from antisemitism, often specifically regarding last year’s protests amid the war in Gaza.
Even if Harvard does have to replace all its international scholars, it would struggle to do so before the fall semester.
“Harvard can replace all those international students with Americans, pretty easily, but it’s hard to do that on short notice,” said Robert Kelchen, a professor and head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee.
“I think that other colleges would normally be happy to take students to help them out during a time of need. I think the question is, will the administration issue a threat that if any of these students end up transferring to put that institution’s funding at risk?” Kelchen added, warning Trump could also to go after the school’s ability to receive federal student aid.
“At this point, the only lever that the federal government has not used against Harvard is financial aid for students. And I think that’s quite possible at this point, because basically every other funding source has been cut off,” he said.
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