The Elite Fascism of US Universities
Karthik Puru | 29 January 2025 | The Wire
As newly-inaugurated US President Donald Trump’s name is being floated for the Nobel Peace Prize for ushering in the temporary ceasefire in Gaza, US college students and faculty protesting the genocide and occupation for the past year are facing collective punishment.
Days into his second term as the country’s 47th head of state, Trump has also reinstated his so-called ‘Muslim ban’ from 2017, now beefed up with provisions that seem to offer grounds to deport pro-Palestinian protestors. With students returning to college campuses nationwide for the spring semester and organising actions demanding a permanent ceasefire, the real estate mogul and immigration hardliner has an unlikely ally in campus crackdowns – liberal US universities.