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Trump says – as president – US colleges could lose accreditation over ‘anti-Semitic propaganda’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has told Jewish donors to this election bid that US universities could lose accreditation and federal government support over what he described as “anti-Semitic propaganda” if he is elected president again.

Trump also said he would ban refugees resettling in the US from “terror-infested” areas, naming Gaza as one such location, and that he would arrest “pro-Hamas thugs” who engage in vandalism, an apparent reference to student protesters at US universities against Israel’s war on Gaza.

“Colleges will and must end the anti-Semitic propaganda or they will lose their accreditation and federal support,” Trump said on Thursday, speaking remotely to a crowd of more than 1,000 Republican Jewish Coalition donors in Las Vegas, the AP reports.

Trump’s comments appear focused on pro-Palestinian protests that erupted across US college campuses earlier this year, with students setting up encampments to express opposition to US support for Israel’s war on Gaza and to demand educational institutions sever ties with Israeli firms and government entities that support the war.

Trump Isn't Anti-War. It’s Time to Debunk This Dangerous Myth

"Trump did try and start new wars, expanded old wars, increased drone strikes, and helped do a genocide in the Middle East." Mehdi debunks the claim that Trump was an anti-war president.

Trump almost started a new war in his first year in office, when he picked a fight with nuclear-armed North Korea. He called Kim Jong Un, “little rocket man”, called him “short and fat,” and threatened him with “fire and fury”.

When it comes to drones, Trump didn’t just do more drone strikes, he loosened all restrictions on drone strikes, making it even easier to kill innocent civilians.

And when it comes to doing a genocide, Trump oversaw the Yemen war’s “deadliest and most violent” year, up until that point.