Columbia University is fighting two wars at once. One rages publicly against President Trump, whose administration in recent days ordered the arrest of a student protester and canceled federal funds to the Ivy League school over allegations of antisemitism.

Trump warns that ICE arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia University will be ‘first of many’ - Student leader accused immigration officials of conducting ‘open repression of student activism and

Palestine activists of engaging in “pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity.” A judge has temporarily blocked Khalil’s deportation.

To Trump and his administration, Khalil's arrest is an opening move in a campaign to rid the country of foreign students accused of helping to make American campuses intimidating territory for Jewish students.

The first hearing for Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil is taking place Wednesday in New York as the Trump administration and Khalil’s lawyers fight for the case to be heard in their preferred jurisdictions.

The threat to withholding funding from schools over anti-Semitism is the latest conflict between Trump and higher education.