Some Jewish students at Columbia took part in pro-Palestinian protests. Other Jewish students have said that rhetoric at protests has crossed into antisemitism and that the administration has been too tolerant of demonstrators who created a hostile environment for people who support Israel.

The university, the administration’s first big target in a campaign to root out what it called harassment on campus, could lose more than $50 million in funding.

President Trump is threatening to pull Columbia University's federal funding over antisemitism concerns. "All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,