How the Trump administration is using civil rights complaints over ‘antisemitism’ to end DEI and quash dissent on Palestine – Mondoweiss

As the Trump administration’s “Catch and Revoke” effort spreads, kicking up plumes of intimidating fear in its wake, among its many blunt tools of repression are the very civil rights policies meant to guard against such instances of targeted racism. On full display in the administration’s investigations of universities is its willingness to instrumentalize civil rights infrastructure toward fascist aims, including disappearing international students from their campuses,…