{"id":36112,"date":"2025-03-15T11:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T11:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/a-graduates-arrest-and-trumps-pincer-attack-on-higher-education\/"},"modified":"2025-03-15T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T11:56:47","slug":"a-graduates-arrest-and-trumps-pincer-attack-on-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/a-graduates-arrest-and-trumps-pincer-attack-on-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A graduate\u2019s arrest and Trump\u2019s \u2018pincer attack\u2019 on higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration is cutting funds and threatening what it sees as liberal bastions, such as Columbia University, where it detained Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestinian activism<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> thought few Americans would care about the deportation of an Arab student protest leader accused of supporting terrorism and antisemitism at an elite university then he was wrong on several counts.<\/p>\n<p>Trump accused the student, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/mahmoud-khalil\">Mahmoud Khalil<\/a>, of being \u201cpro-Hamas\u201d and hailed his detention by immigration officers, in front of his pregnant American wife as she waved her husband\u2018s permanent residence card, as the \u201cfirst arrest of many to come\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/15\/universities-columbia-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administration is cutting funds and threatening what it sees as liberal bastions, such as Columbia University, where it detained Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestinian activism If Donald Trump thought few Americans would care about the deportation of an Arab student protest leader accused of supporting terrorism and antisemitism at an elite university then he &#8230; <a title=\"A graduate\u2019s arrest and Trump\u2019s \u2018pincer attack\u2019 on higher education\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/15\/a-graduates-arrest-and-trumps-pincer-attack-on-higher-education\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about A graduate\u2019s arrest and Trump\u2019s \u2018pincer attack\u2019 on higher education\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}