After his intervention against the University of Colombia for similar reasons, the government of Donald Trump has now warned a colleague of institution Ivy League, Harvard University, according to Reuters report of $ 9 billion to lose alleged “anti -Semitism” on academic land.
Authorities of Education, Health and Human Services of the United States and the administration of US services in a written statement 31. In addition to multi -year grant liabilities worth $ 8.7 billion, the report added.
Total money at stake is around $ 9 billion, with the reason for Trump’s administration is a step against alleged anti -Semitism on Harvard’s campus.
The investigation is the last step of Trump’s administration to push US universities to change its policies in a number of questions in the Center for Cultural Wars that have suppressed the US in recent years.
Fans of Trump’s efforts say that this is a long needed control of found extremism at American universities. Critics say that intervention is a draconian excessive reaction that suffocates academic freedom and the right to freedom of expression.
“If this financing is stopped, it will stop the life of saving research and imperse important scientific research and innovation,” said Alan Garber, President of Harvard, in a written statement.
Garber said that anti -Semitism “is present on our campus” and that he experienced it himself, as a president of the university.
He said that Harvard has accepted reforms in the fight against anti -Semitism over the past 15 months, although he has recognized that “we still have to do a lot of work” and the university will cooperate with the federal government.
The focus on Harvard comes after Trump’s administration canceled $ 400 million this month for federal financing for colleague Ivy League School Columbia University. After October 7, 2023, the epicenter of the Anti-Israeli protests broke out, the Hamas attack inside Israel and the subsequent subsequent entering into Gaza, the Palestinian enclave controlled by Hamas, broke out.
The protesters, including some Jewish groups, say that the administration connects their criticism of the US Israeli attack on Gaza with anti -Semitism and the support of Palestinian rights as sympathy for Hamas.
At the beginning of this month, Columbia announced that it made some changes that Trump’s administration required to start negotiations to get back its federal financing.
The University of Provisional President announced at the weekend that after the outrage of some students and the faculties, they resigned what they characterized as the consent of the school to federal requirements.
In addition to targeting funds, agents for enforcement of customs recovery have detained some foreign students in recent weeks and have been working on their deportation.
At the beginning of this month, Trump’s administration suspended $ 175 million financing for Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania, another school of Ivy League, over her transgender sports policies.
This month, the Ministry of Education sent a letter to 60 universities – including Harvard – a warning that they could bring coercive measures under the heads of Civil Rights Act against them if they failed to protect Jewish students on their campuses. He said that anti -Semitic “eruptions” disrupted life in elite schools throughout the country for one year.
“Harvard’s inability to protect students on academic land from anti -Semitic discrimination – all in supporting the distribution of ideologies from free investigation – seriously endanger her reputation,” said Minister of Education Linda McMahon. “Harvard can remedy these crimes and restore into a campus dedicated to academic perfection and searching for the truth, where all students feel safely in the area.”
Harvard and other elite universities joined the Cross Conservatives at the end of 2023, when Harvard chairmen, Pennsylvanian University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology appeared before the Congress Committee on the rise of anti -Semitism on campuses.
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay, along with other school leaders, refused to provide a definitive answer “yes” or “no” if he asked if the call for the genocide of Jews would violate the behavior of their schools concerning bullying and harassment and stated that they had to balance freedom protection.
Rights advocates also raised concerns about Islamophobia and anti-arabian bias since the beginning of the Israeli War in Gaza. Trump’s administration has not yet announced any specific steps to deal with bias against Muslims and Arabs. (Report Brad Brooks in Colorado and Kanishka Singh in Washington; editing Frank McGurty, Stephen Coates and Lincoln Host.)
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