Trump administration finds Harvard failed to protect Jewish students, threatens to cut all funding
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Source: AP
Updated 12:54 PM EDT, June 30, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action.
In a letter sent to Harvard on Monday, a federal task force accuses the university of being a willful participant in antisemitic harassment of Jewish students and faculty. It threatens to refer the case to the Justice Department as soon as possible unless Harvard comes into compliance.
The finding allows the Trump administration to target a wider pool of Harvards federal funding. Already the government has slashed more than $2.6 billion in research grants, but a civil rights violation could jeopardize Harvards eligibility to accept federal student aid meaning students would not be able to use federal loans or grants to attend the university.
Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvards relationship with the federal government, officials said in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press and first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/harvard-funding-trump-investigation-students-bca55ab4ec2d344dc6e01caa2af492d8
I suppose this is supposed to distract the distractable media away from reporting on the disastrous big ugly bill.
Article updated.
Original article -
WASHINGTON (AP) Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action.
A federal task force sent a letter to Harvard on Monday finding the university violated civil rights laws requiring colleges to protect students from discrimination based on race or national origin. It says investigators found Harvard was at times a willful participant in anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff and that campus leaders allowed antisemitism to fester on the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvards relationship with the federal government, officials said in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press and first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Harvard did not immediately comment.

Lovie777
(19,098 posts)Botany
(74,560 posts)Please in Oct. of 2018 came to Lebanon, Ohio (home of the Klan in Ohio) and
blamed International Financial Elites aka the Jews for a caravan of Hispanic
Migrants coming to the U.S./Mexico border and shortly thereafter a Trump supporter
attacked a Jewish Synagogue in Squirrel Hill, PA. He also praised Gen. Robert E
Lee in the same speech.
tornado34jh
(1,489 posts)Call out Trump's history and hypocrisy in his actions. You can't have it both ways.
Ritabert
(1,265 posts)Let's see the investigation.
Exp
(424 posts)contained in an open-air PRISON??
No? Maybe it's time for a little self-reflection before getting upset over criticism of your countrymen.
AloeVera
(3,139 posts)
Was "it" chanting "globalize the intifada" as it hurled anti-semitic slurs at innocent Jewish students just wanting to get an education and go to the library? Perhaps it called to account (gasp, what were they thinking!!) provocateurs and those harassing, threatening and doxxing the protesters? Perhaps it tried to treat both sides equitably and fairly - which may be its greatest crime of all?
Impunity and special priviledges for one side and silencing, criminalization and deportation for the other. That glaring injustice is being used by actual anti-semites to fuel the fire they want to ignite.
walkingman
(9,460 posts)twodogsbarking
(14,186 posts)
Bayard
(25,742 posts)I thought he outlawed that.
thesquanderer
(12,664 posts)BumRushDaShow
(155,467 posts)Which suggests that someone "changed the deal" and Harvard must have balked, and that set off the latest ridiculous temper tantrum.
We can't go through the next 4 years of fucking temper tantrums every other day.

thesquanderer
(12,664 posts)just in case...
BumRushDaShow
(155,467 posts)that Harvard strongly rejected the investigation conclusion.