How Trump’s attacks on DEI and Palestine activists are connected – Mondoweiss

The national crackdown against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) was inevitable. After racial progress, there is often retrenchment.

DEI programs were the institutionalized response to the Black Lives Matter movement. They reshaped conversations around representation, missing perspectives, and ultimately who belongs, whether in universities, boardrooms, or other institutions of power. 

So when President Donald Trump terminated these programs in the public and private…