President Donald Trump’s election has forced some higher education institutions, such as Columbia University, to grow a spine.

Columbia announced that it is disciplining an undisclosed number of students who took part in pro-Palestinian “protests” last year. One of those two “protests” was when a mob of students broke into an administrative building, barricaded themselves inside, and effectively took the four janitors inside hostage, an homage to the Palestinian terrorists that those students support.

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Reportedly, two-thirds of the students Columbia disciplined have received a two-year suspension, while the rest have been put on probation, had their degrees revoked, or been expelled. One of Columbia’s antisemitic student groups claims that 80 students were suspended after a mob of them stormed the university’s library in May. Those students, who illegally occupied the library to proselytize about the greatness of a Palestinian terrorist, had to be forcibly removed from the building by the New York City Police Department.

Columbia did not do this because it cares about preventing antisemitic terrorist supporters from illegally occupying buildings. That is evident from its lackadaisical attitude toward these demonstrations in the past few years, from administrators mocking Jewish students who feel unsafe on a campus with roving mobs of terrorist supporters, and from the university’s interim president downplaying the university’s antisemitism crisis as “capital hill nonsense.”

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Columbia did this because Trump won the 2024 presidential election and has pressured the university to address the rampant antisemitism it has fostered on its campus for at least the past 20 years. Trump cut the university’s funding and found that the university violated the civil rights of Jewish students who were being harassed on campus. Columbia has since negotiated to restore its funding, which included the university adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, which includes recognizing that holding Israel to a different standard than any other nation is antisemitic.

This would not have happened if former Vice President Kamala Harris had won the 2024 election, given her sympathy for Hamas and their supporters. Columbia has not had an epiphany or a change of heart. This is only happening because Trump and his administration have moral clarity on the issue that no Democrat other than Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) can provide.