‘Everyone is coming into fire’: students return to US campuses bruised and changed by Trump’s assault

At Harvard (pictured) and Columbia, certain forms of criticism of Israel will now be punishable as antisemitism. Photograph: Sophie Park/Getty Images

Students and faculty heading back to US colleges and universities from summer break are returning to bruised institutions reeling from the Trump administration’s unprecedented campaign to bend higher education to its ideological will, and are bracing for more uncertainty ahead.

The administration seized on campus divisions over Israel to impose a definition of antisemitism that critics caution is antithetical to academic inquiry, and freeze billions in grants and contracts – mostly for medical and scientific research.

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