The Trump administration’s cancellation of $400 million in grants and loans to Columbia University over what it referred to as “persistent harassment of Jewish students” was “long overdue,” former Rep. Pete King said on Newsmax, Sunday. 

“As much as I despise those protesters, I have more contempt for the administrators of Columbia who allowed this to go on,” the New York Republican, appearing on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend,” commented. “I mean, last year they spent more time to keep the police away from Columbia than cracking down on those so-called protesting students.”

Columbia University, located in New York, has been the epicenter of college protests, with demonstrators demanding that the United States end its support of Israel because of the civilian deaths and humanitarian crisis in the war in Gaza. 

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