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Mon Sep 15, 2025, 07:52 PM Sep 2025

Judith Butler on Trump's campus crackdown, Berkeley. Democracy Now

The University of California, Berkeley has provided Trump officials with the names of at least 160 students, faculty and staff in cases of alleged antisemitism on campus, in response to the administration's sweeping crackdown on Palestinian solidarity activism. The administration has already threatened to cut off federal funding from academic institutions and has targeted international students involved in the pro-Palestine movement. We speak to philosopher Judith Butler, who teaches at UC Berkeley and whose name was among those shared with the Trump administration.

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