Jerry Nadler of New York says president ‘weaponizing real pain American Jews face to advance desire to wield control’

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The representative Jerry Nadler of New York has condemned Donald Trump’s crackdown on American universities in the name of fighting antisemitism, saying that withholding federal funding from schools will “not make Jewish students safer”.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Democratic representative said that he condemns Trump’s “latest attacks on higher education cloaked under the guise of fighting antisemitism”.