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Harvard's tense confrontation with the Trump administration won an even more expensive turn after the White House freezes more than $2 billion in federal funds after the White House failed to cut its anti-Semitism.
Harvard President Alan Gerber explained his decision not to comply with President Donald Trump's orders aimed at restraining anti-Semitism.
Conversely, White House spokesman Kush Desai said the Trump administration is “motivated by one thing and one thing.” Tackling anti-Semitism… Anti-Semitist protesters are meant to inflict violence and take over the entire building on a university campus, not a crude display of prejudice against Jewish Americans, but rather a study intended for federal research.
Harvard will not comply with Trump administrators' requests amid the threat of cutting federal funds
Harvard police will walk near an anti-Israel tent camp in Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 10th. (John Tlumaki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The melancholy point lost in this standoff is that Harvard University appears to be fighting the joint task force of the Trump administration and the president, fighting anti-Semitism more vigorously than it has fought anti-Semitism on its own campus.
Where was Harvard's fierce resolve when sw and anti-Semitism stickers were painted near Hillel at Harvard University? Or when Harvard employees were filmed and tore a poster of Israeli hostages containing a baby Slain Bibas? Or when students from Israeli business schools are surrounded and screaming from campus by pro-Palestinian protesters over the heinous crime of being Jewish?
Harvard is certainly a private university. However, unlike Hillsdale College, a small liberal arts college in Michigan that stopped accepting federal funds in 1984, Harvard still receives billions of dollars in federal funds. In other words, Harvard is subject to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This prohibits discrimination against all students, including Jewish students, based on race, color, or national origin.
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Anti-Israel protests by Harvard students and sympathizers. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
Harvard has an obligation to ensure the safety of its student population, whether public or private. From harassment. From discrimination. From violence. These are very elementary expectations that accused Jewish students of ignoring the university, leading to terrible civil rights violations and “they are very basic expectations that lead to lawsuits that claim Harvard University, a leading American university, has become a fortress of hatred and harassment for Jews. Hamas' actions.”
A simple question continues: Why are there so many controversies about the measures being taken to protect Jewish students? Is there such a protest if the federal government threatens to cut off federal funds to universities that have failed to protect LGBTQ groups? Of course it's not. If masked KKK racists today storm university campuses and threaten to attack black students, and the university's management fails to address that threat, will federal intervention be highly rounded? That's not correct.
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But once again, in the words of British writer and screenwriter David Badiel, Jews do not count.
