An investigation by the Trump administration accuses Harvard University of violating the rights of its Jewish students. US government lawyers conclude that the institution knew that these students felt threatened and allegedly acted with deliberate indifference.
The executive led by Donald Trump has warned in a statement to the richest university in the United States with definitively withdraw all federal financing if it does not make changes in this regardrelated to their protocols on anti -Semitism and known inclusive policies Domo dei.
“Not implementing adequate changes will immediately result in the loss of all federal financial resources and will continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government,” is stated in the letter that its president, Alan Garber, has received this Monday.
The letter indicates that Harvard remained impassive after Israeli students were supposedly attacked during the last two years, and that the campus was vandalized with painted that showed a dollar sign inside a David star or an Israeli flag with a swastika instead of David’s star.
These formal notifications of violation of the Civil Rights Law generally a demand from the Department of Justice or a voluntary resolution with the university is usually happening.
Seen with perspective, this warning of the Trump administration against Harvard is One more step of a tense relationship between the partiesafter early 2025 the Executive demanded that the institution be able to supervise their admissions, hiring and ideology of students and staff.
Harvard opposed the requirement and the Trump administration announced that it would freeze more than 2,000 million dollars In federal funds for the prestigious university, so the institution has sued the US government for alleged violation of the first amendment and due process.
In addition, Harvard published his own internal reports on anti -Semitism and antimusement prejudices on the campus in April, finding that Jewish but also Muslims students felt insecure in the months after October 7, and that he was working to solve the situation.
The Trump administration issued another notification of this type in May to Columbia Universitywhose protests against the massacre in Gaza reached the international dimension, for not having protected Jewish students from the supposed harassment.
