American experts: Trump is trying to destroy education and collect all powers in his hand policy

But these universities are in an unprecedented moment of danger due to the president’s directions Donald Trump Which aims to change the form of the university institution, its activities and its student structure in a manner that is concerned, according to the 29/5/25 episode of the “From Washington” program.

The Trump administration asked universities on its head Harvard Interfering in practical curricula and employment, and providing them with the records of foreign students and their activities and what they publish on the communication sites.

When these universities rejected the demands of the American administration, Trump rushed to stop financing practical research, and prevented Harvard, for example, from obtaining any government contracts, which some considered a kind of revenge.

However, these institutions did not stand silent about these measures, and went to the judiciary, including Harvard University, whose president said they adopted values ​​were not welcomed by successive American administrations.

The exploitation of anti -Semitism politically

Trump was not satisfied with stopping the funding of these universities, but he wrote many publications and made statements in which he accused Harvard bAnti -SemitismAnd it receives students who are hostile to the United States or represents the chaos of liberals.

Among the measures taken by the American President to subjugate universities is that thousands of students, researchers and foreign professors have stopped studying or coming visas to the United States.

These steps are a precedent in American history, and threatens the reputation of the educational institution and its ability to compete globally, and it was the forerunner in many innovations, until the United States has owned 70% of the major international universities.

What Trump seeks, in the opinion of some, will destroy the model of these successful universities so far, which was behind many scientific and medical discoveries that benefit America and support its economy directly, which prompted critics of these decisions to say that the American president attacks science, knowledge and freedom of opinion.

But Trump’s supporters are defending his positions that they do not see as targeting universities as much as it is an attempt to redistribute expenditures to serve the interests of the country, and among these Republican journalist writer Tim Constantine, who says that these universities are very rich and does not represent government financing a threat to them.

Also, Trump does not hostile foreign students – according to Constantine – but is trying to provide greater opportunities for American students who do not have opportunities in ancient universities, because a third of its foreign students, that is, learn at the expense of American taxpayers.

Therefore, when Trump submits these steps, he tries to implement the slogan “America First”, but he looks at the American interest, especially since a university like Harvard has a budget of 35 billion dollars but it wants more, while some Americans fear the inability to pay their monthly bills, says Constantine.

Seek to destroy education

On the other hand, a professor of law at Colorado University, Dr. Wadih Saeed, expressed his amazement, which he considered a justification from Constitten for Trump’s behavior, as he believes that Trump is targeting global education in general, and seeks not to teach students some matters as did the Americans in the country’s indigenous population, or violate minorities for example.

On this basis, the issue is not related to a specific university, but it is part of an attack on higher education in general in the United States, according to Saeed, who believes that the American administration aims to control education in general, and that Harvard’s fall in this battle means that America will only learn what Trump wants.

Saeed did not deny the existence of problems in American universities, their financing and their imprisonment, but he said that these problems cannot be solved in this way that Trump adopts.

Try to devote tyranny

However, the Director of Policy and Government Affairs of the “GTRT” organization, Dibra Shoshan, has a more severe position than the behavior of the American president, as she said that what he is doing was “a tyrannical attack on independent resources of thought, grants and information.”

Shashan, who is Jewish and graduate of Harvard, believes that the attack of this administration on higher education “must be taken in a broader context, because it coincides with an attack on the media, judicial institutions and federal governments”, accusing Trump of seeking “to collect the lower in his hand at the expense of all institutions, including Congress.”

Even Trump’s talk about Harvard’s anti -Semitism, Shoshan replied by saying that the latest statistics indicate that only 26% of American Jews support Trump currently while 72% see him dangerous, and about 69% see him racist and anti -Semitism.

As for the American -Palestinian political activist Khaled Al -Taraani, he replied to the conversation of Constantine, that all higher education, freedom of opinion, academic freedom and democracy, but all of America is in danger, and not Harvard alone.

With regard to talking about Trump’s endeavor to re -benefit from taxpayers’ money to provide greater opportunities to teach Americans, Al -Taraani said that 3 billion dollars obtained by Harvard or other universities is not equivalent to more than 50 billion dollars granted by Washington to the occupation state until the Palestinians kill and burn them in their tents.

Not only that, Al -Tara’ani indicated that education in Israel “is almost completely free thanks to the American support that was first in Trump to direct it to American citizens, as it was the first in the Contestinin to demand the directing of these billions that went to arm Israel to teach the Americans.”

Also, foreign students do not learn at the expense of the American citizen as Trump tries and supported him, but they pay huge money for universities that put programs to attract them as a kind of investment, as Al -Taraani says.

These foreign students “are not hostile to Semitism or the Jews, but they refuse to exterminate the Palestinians and burn women and children in the tents under American auspices,” according to Al -Taraani, who said that many Students anti -war On Gaza, they were Jews.