DHS Seizes Greater Control of Columbia and its Departments; Glenn Takes Your Questions on Ukraine, DOGE, and Free Speech

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The Trump administration continues to place increasingly tyrannical demands on Columbia University, from controlling its departments to pressuring the school to demand the IHRA's definition of antisemitism. Free speech advocate Alex Abdo explains the legal issues surrounding the administration's demands and what the letter means for academic freedom. Then: Glenn takes your questions about Ukraine, Russia, DOGE, and free speech. -------- Watch full episodes on Rumble, streamed LIVE 7pm ET. Become part of our Locals community Follow System Update: Twitter Instagram TikTok Facebook LinkedIn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.0	to Columbia University today that is without any hyperbole genuinely chilling. The letter informs
1:07.6	Columbia that they must immediately comply with multiple government demands about how they run their private Ivy League University,
1:14.6	including putting their Middle East Studies program into a receivership for five years and reporting all progress to the U.S. government.
1:22.6	Columbia has been long the target of pro-Israel advocates for the presence of harsh Israel critics on its faculty.
1:30.9	You can't have that.
1:32.4	And as a result, Columbia is already jumping through multiple hoops that are demanded by the U.S. government,
1:37.8	announcing multiple expulsions and suspensions of students who committed the crime of protesting against the Israeli war in Gaza,
1:46.0	as well as even in some cases retroactively revoking their diplomas.
1:50.0	All of this comes to the Trump administration is escalating its attacks on students who committed the crime of protesting,
1:57.0	divide administrations, funding, and arming of Israel with all sorts of
2:01.4	multi-pronged attacks on that university that are reverberating throughout, as intended, all
2:06.0	of American academia.
2:07.1	To sort through all of this, we have the ideal guest.
2:09.5	He is Alex Abdo, who is the litigation director of the Knight First Amendment Institute
2:14.1	at Columbia, and he previously worked for years at the ACLU where he was
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