By JTA
The Trump administration informed Harvard that the school had violated the civil rights of its Jewish and Israeli students in its response to alleged antisemitism on campus, JTA reported.
The letter, reported on June 30 by the Wall Street Journal, was sent to Harvard President Alan Garber and accused the school of failing to properly address the concerns of Jewish and Israeli students who felt threatened by the pro-Palestinian protests on its campus.
It outlined various instances of harassment against Jewish and Israeli students on campus, including assault and the circulation of antisemitic imagery. The notice of violation called on Harvard to make “adequate changes immediately” to avoid the loss of the remainder of the school’s federal funding.
“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government,” the letter read. “Harvard may of course continue to operate free of federal privileges, and perhaps such an opportunity will spur a commitment to excellence that will help Harvard thrive once again.”
The letter opens the latest front in the Trump administration’s campaign against the school, in which the administration has cited antisemitism as one of the chief reasons for cutting funding and demanding other changes.
Last month, the Trump administration revoked its permission for the school to enroll international students, and also announced its intent to cancel all of its remaining federal funding, approximately $100 million, over the school’s “disturbing lack of concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students.”
Critics of those moves included some Jewish leaders, who have called many of those demands either unwarranted or heavy-handed.
In April, Harvard released its long-awaited internal antisemitism report which was accompanied by a letter from Garber in which he apologized for the campus climate over the last year and a half.
Harvard has sued the Trump administration for freezing nearly $3 billion in research funding. In June, the National Jewish Advocacy Center, a recently founded group that has filed lawsuits to protect Jews on campuses, filed an amicus brief in the suit siding with the Trump administration.
“No institution is simply entitled to billions of taxpayer dollars,” the brief read, according to the Harvard Crimson. “The federal government, for good reason, does not believe that Harvard is adequately protecting Jewish members of its community and does not want to support this obnoxious facade.”
In the war against Jews, located mainly on our campuses, Harvard has taken the lead role in this perfidy. In an effort to neutralize this Jew-hatred by these once elite-educational institutions, it’s the Trump administration which is fighting back by pulling back Federal financial grants to Harvard, among others.
The Democratic party, and sadly some Jewish institutions, have either been silent or even worse supportive of Harvard’s antisemitic radicals determined efforts to cultivate a culture of hatred of Jews on it’s campus.
If Biden, or worse Harris, had won the 2024 election none of this push back would have occurred. Antisemitism would have picked-up momentum, Jewish students would have been under increasing attack and the radical-left movement would have take increasing control of our colleges. Elections have consequences, and its time to re-evaluate our political connections.