Threats to Free Speech and Academic Freedom on Campus

Tenured faculty are being fired as the federal government presses university administrators to crack down on those who criticize Israel’s military actions and treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Students are being expelled and others disciplined for participating in demonstrations or writing op-eds in their college newspapers critical of Israel or supportive of DEI programs. Foreign students and faculty are having their visas revoked and they are threatened with deportation for expressing views that the Trump administration disagrees with. The government is cutting research funding to some universities, and has threatened to terminate such funding to others, unless they ban pro-Palestinian and speakers and purge DEI programs from their curricula.