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| Harvard is fighting the White House harder than it ever fought antisemitism | |
| 2025-04-17 | |
[FoxNews] "No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
Explaining its decision not to comply with President Donald Trump’s orders aimed at curbing antisemitism, Harvard President Alan Garber said, "No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue." Conversely, White House spokesperson Kush Desai stated that the Trump administration is "motivated by one thing and one thing only: tackling antisemitism…Antisemitic protesters inflicting violence and taking over entire college campus buildings is not only a crude display of bigotry against Jewish Americans, but entirely disruptive to the intellectual inquiry and research that federal funding of colleges is meant to support." Harvard’s tense showdown with the Trump administration took another costly turn after the White House froze more than $2 billion in federal funding following the Ivy League school’s failure to curtail antisemitism. The depressing point that’s lost in this standoff is that Harvard appears to be fighting the Trump administration and the president's Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism harder than it has ever fought antisemitism on its own campus. Where was Harvard’s fierce resolve when swastikas and antisemitic stickers were plastered near Harvard's Hillel? Or when a Harvard employee was filmed ripping down posters of Israeli hostages, including those of the slain Bibas babies? Or when an Israeli business school student was surrounded, mobbed and shouted off campus by pro-Palestinian protesters for the heinous crime of being Jewish? Harvard is indeed a private university. But unlike Hillsdale College, a small liberal arts college in Michigan which stopped accepting federal funding in 1984, Harvard is still the recipient of billions of dollars of federal funding. That means Harvard is subject to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination against all students, including Jewish students, on the basis of race, color or national origin. Public or private, Harvard has an obligation to ensure the safety of its student population. From harassment. From discrimination. From violence. These are very rudimentary expectations that Jewish students accuse the university of having neglected, leading to egregious civil rights violations and a lawsuit alleging that "Harvard, America’s leading university, has become a bastion of Jewish hatred and harassment…numerous students and faculty members at Harvard have openly endorsed Hamas’s October 7 massacre, issuing public statements blaming Jews for their own murders, or otherwise excusing or supporting Hamas’s actions." A simple question persists: Why is there so much controversy around measures being taken to protect Jewish students? Had the federal government threatened to cut off federal funding to universities failing to protect LGBTQ groups, would there be such outcry? Of course not. If masked KKK racists stormed a college campus today, threatened to attack black students and the college administration failed to address that threat, would federal government intervention be so roundly condemned? It rightly would not. But once again, in the words of British author and screenwriter David Baddiel, Jews don’t count. Trump admininstration threatens to ban Harvard from enrolling foreign students [IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump’s administration says it will stop Harvard University from enrolling foreign students if it does not agree to government demands that would put it under outside political supervision. Trump is furious at the storied university — which has produced 162 Nobel prize winners — for rejecting his request to submit to oversight on admissions, hiring and political slant. “And if Harvard cannot verify it is in full compliance with its reporting requirements, the university will lose the privilege of enrolling foreign students,” reads a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 https://babylonbee.com/news/harvard-warns-loss-of-federal-funding-will-cripple-their-ability-to-find-solution-for-the-jewish-problem |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-04-17 15:09 |
| #4 Thanks for fixing it. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2025-04-17 11:44 |
| #3 And remember, only the very wealthy can afford to go there. It is not there for most for CONSERVATIVE Americans. . Fixed it for you; plenty of underserved and undeserving liberals go for free. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2025-04-17 07:00 |
| #2 Harvard under fire as DHS secretary cuts $2.7M in grants, demands visa records: 'America demands more' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-04-17 04:22 |
| #1 Harvard is a business disguised as an education facility. They have enough funds to offer every student free tuition, stop accepting donations and funding and still be fully solvent for the next 100 years. They are a fraud on our institutions and a drain on the American tax payer. And remember, only the very wealthy can afford to go there. It is not there for most for Americans. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2025-04-17 02:00 |