India, Aug. 13 -- After Harvard and Columbia University, the Trump administration has now set its sights on George Washington University, escalating its campaign to reshape US higher education in the wake of pro-Palestinian campus protests.

The Department of Justice announced this week that George Washington University violated federal civil rights law during pro-Palestinian student protests last year.

George Washington, a private university based in the nation's capital, was home to a weeks-long pro-Palestinian student protest movement last spring, featuring encampments erected on campus that remained for two weeks.

The campaign fits a pattern: Columbia, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, and most notably Harvard have all faced similar scr...