The United States accuses Harvard of anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, staff | Donald Trump News

A federal working group threatens to reduce all of Harvard’s federal funding for alleged violations of Jewish and Israeli students’ rights.

The administration of American president Donald Trump accused Harvard University of having violated the civil rights of his Jewish and Israeli students and threatened to cut all federal funding to the institution.

The announcement on Monday is the last action of the Trump administration against the oldest university in the United States after the institution rejected previous requests to modify its operations.

In a letter sent to the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, a federal working group said that his investigation had concluded that “Harvard was in some cases deliberately indifferent, and in others was a voluntary participant in the anti -Semitic harassment of students, teachers and Jewish staff”.

The letter continued saying that the majority of Jewish students from Harvard said they were suffering from discrimination on the campus, while a quarter felt physically dangerous.

He also threatened other acts of funding if Harvard did not change CAP.

“Not instituting adequate changes will immediately result in the loss of all federal financial resources and will continue to affect Harvard relations with the federal government,” he said, without developing the necessary reforms.

In a press release, Harvard rejected the allegations.

The university said it had taken “substantial and proactive measures” to combat anti -Semitism on the campus, and had made “significant progress to fight against fanaticism, hatred and prejudices”.

“We are not alone in cope with this challenge and to recognize that this work is underway,” he said, adding that he remains “determined to ensure that members of our Jewish and Israeli community are embraced, respected and can prosper in Harvard”.

During a white house briefing later, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said discussions between the Trump administration and Harvard took place “behind closed doors”, but offered no other details.

Protests against the War of Israel against Gaza

American universities have been faced with controversy over an alleged anti -Semitism on their campuses since last year’s eruption of the national student Protests against the War of Israel against Gaza.

Trump called such “illegal” demonstrations and accused participants in anti -Semitism. But the protest leaders – who include Jewish students – described their actions as a peaceful response to the actions of Israel, who have aroused concerns about human rights violations, including genocide.

The Trump administration has frozen $ 2.5 billion In the federal subsidy at Harvard, decided to prevent him from registering international students and threatened to abolish his tax exemption status.

He demanded that Harvard ended any positive action in the hiring of the faculty and the admissions of the students and dissolves groups of students who promote what he calls criminal activity and harassment.

He too called For changes to the admission process “to prevent admitting international students hostile to American values”, including “students support terrorism or anti -Semitism”.

Harvard rejected these requests and continued the administrationqualifying its actions as “reprisals” and “illegal”.

The Trump administration also continued its best colleges, notably Columbia, Cornell and Northwestern.

At the beginning of March, Columbia – whose protest camps were copied by students in colleges from all over the country – had $ 400 million Federal funding cut off from his budget.

The school then agreed with a list of requests from the Trump administration. These include changing your disciplinary rules and reviewing your Middle East study program.

In addition, the president of the University of Virginia, James Ryan, said last week that he had chosen to resign rather than fighting the US government when the Trump administration was investigating the efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion of the school.

Above the same time, the Trump administration also launched an investigation into hiring practices in the University of California system – which registers nearly 300,000 students – to determine if they violate anti -discrimination federal laws.

Universities have said that the actions of the Trump administration threaten academic freedom and freedom of expression, as well as critical scientific research.