How the Global Right Weaponizes Antisemitism to Fight the Left

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Stanley, J. (2026, September 30). How the Global Right Weaponizes Antisemitism to Fight the Left. Zeteo. https://zeteo.com/p/how-far-right-weaponizes-antisemitism-left

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The Trump administration's Project 2025, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, aimed to exert far-right control over higher education through tactics involving false accusations of antisemitism against universities like Harvard and Northwestern. This strategy has led to financial penalties totaling hundreds of millions of dollars for these institutions. The administration also targeted accreditation bodies such as the American Psychological Association with similar spurious claims, aiming to delegitimize traditional academic oversight bodies aligned with liberal or left-wing ideologies.

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This week, a federal panel recommended suspending the accreditation powers of the American Psychological Association due to alleged failures in policing antisemitism within its accredited programs. The APA strongly disputes this claim. Part of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which aims to bring higher education under far-right state control, involves targeting academic institutions' accreditation processes. Universities like Harvard, Northwestern, and Cornell have faced spurious antisemitism charges from right-wing groups as part of this effort. Jewish faculty members have fiercely opposed these tactics, yet the Trump administration has still managed to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from universities through such measures.

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A focus of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-sponsored plan for the second Trump administration, was bringing higher education under far-right state control. asserted

focus → sponsor → control

The methods the Trump regime took to implement this plan are now well known. asserted

regime → take → plan

The central component has been the weaponization of charges of antisemitism against universities, including Harvard, Northwestern, Cornell, Columbia, and Brown. asserted

component → include → Harvard

Jewish faculty have pushed back hard on these spurious charges. asserted

faculty → push → charges

Despite the pushback, including from the courts, the Trump regime has used this method to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from these institutions. asserted

regime → include → institutions

Project 2025 targeted accreditation as a method of bringing higher education under far-right state control. asserted

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A federal panel has been appointed, the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, which issues recommendations to suspend accreditation for traditional accreditation organizations. asserted

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This week, the panel recommended suspending accreditation powers from the American Psychological Association because of its supposed failure to police antisemitism for the programs it accredits – an accusation the APA said it “strongly” disagreed with. asserted

it → recommend → programs

The Trump administration’s tactic of weaponizing charges of antisemitism against supposedly liberal universities is a way of achieving far-right ideological control over universities. asserted

tactic → weaponize → universities

This tactic has become widespread across the West in attacking opposition political parties and politicians associated with democratic socialism and the left. asserted

tactic → become → socialism

Attacking the left for antisemitism is profoundly ironic. asserted

Attacking → attack → antisemitism

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