Wesleyan University President Michael Roth says he finds no comfort in the Trump administration’s supposed fight against antisemitism on college campuses.

Roth, the first Jewish president of Wesleyan, told Morning Edition that the White House is “using antisemitism as a cloak” and threatening to defund universities to get them to “express loyalty to the president.”

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    Precisely! It’s never been about an honest fight against antisemitism. If so, they’d clean their own house first! They have hidden and open Nazis in their midst. They even cater to them and do not denounce their support. They form bonds with overseas Nazis. Republicans like Nazis, and I don’t know how you try to “fight antisemitism” when you don’t tackle the worse threat to Jews.

    Along with the loyalty reason listed here, this is an “I love Israel campaign” that won’t have it any other way. Everyone else will be shut up under this fake guise of antisemitism talk.

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    The things they say they do to protect women, in fact hurt women.

    The things they say they do to protect children, in fact hurt children.

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    That’s because he is not “fighting antisemitism”. He is merely protecting interests of another far right regime.