How strange that scientific research just like this has become extremely political.
Case in point: The Trump administration has cut Northwestern off from over a quarter billion dollars in funding because of "anti-semitism." Note, that the vast majority of this money is for research just like the one linked in this article.
Of course, people seem to be arguing about anti-semitism more than cutting off funding for research. But make no mistake: cutting off research funding is exactly what is happening. And that has practically nothing to do with antisemitism.
The government is cutting funding to universities to crush opposition to Israel, which they call derogatorily "antisemitism". It is plainly stated. The objective is shielding from criticism a foreign country. Damn deal with it instead of second and third guessing the motives of the government.
I was listening to an interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky the writer and his theory was conservatives have a love/hate relationship with sciences (and arts and academia). Paraphrasing from memory - if some thing or someone reinforces their belief system they love it, and they despise it when it contradicts them, this effort against science is to get a reality (scientific results) to agree with their preconceived notions. The bonus is suffocating dissent of any kind against those in power. The context was this was about his book about exobiology and authoritarian governments, Alien Clay.
Anti-semitism is just the convenient cover, likewise pro Palestinian protesters are judged to be interfering with USA international relations (wrt Israel) by the Secretary of State under one clause of Immigration and Nationality Act that they use to justify legal immigrants to be kidnapped and deported.
Case in point: The Trump administration has cut Northwestern off from over a quarter billion dollars in funding because of "anti-semitism." Note, that the vast majority of this money is for research just like the one linked in this article.
Of course, people seem to be arguing about anti-semitism more than cutting off funding for research. But make no mistake: cutting off research funding is exactly what is happening. And that has practically nothing to do with antisemitism.