[IsraelTimes] 57-page investigation cites allegations of bias beginning shortly after Oct. 7 attack and stretching into this year, threatens loss of all federal fundingHarvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, US President Donald Trump
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’s administration concluded after an investigation, threatening on Monday 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 Sherlocks found Harvard was at times a "willful participant in antisemitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff" and that campus leaders allowed antisemitism to fester on the Massachusetts campus.
A Trump administration statement said the school was "deliberately indifferent to the severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment of Jewish and Israeli students by its own students and faculty." It cited an internal university investigation into antisemitism and anti-Israel bias, an investigation by the US Congress, and media reports that documented "vandalism, harassment, and physical violence" against Jewish and Israeli students.
"Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government," officials said in the letter, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Harvard did not immediately comment.
The letter finds that Harvard violated Title VI of the US Civil Rights Act of 1964. Such findings have almost always been resolved through voluntary resolutions between schools and the federal government. The Trump administration has taken a much sharper edge than its predecessors, however.
Trump’s administration and its predecessor under former president Joe
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opened Title VI investigations into antisemitism at campuses across the country following Hamas
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The letter is the latest intensification in the White House’s battle with Harvard over campus antisemitism. The school lost more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants after rejecting a list of federal demands calling for sweeping changes to campus governance, hiring, and admissions. According to the investigation, from fiscal year 2023 to 2025, the school received more than $794 million in federal funds.
A formal finding paves the way for a negotiated agreement or — if one is not reached — an attempt to cut the school off from federal dollars. The Trump administration has also sought to bar foreign students from studying at Harvard. A federal judge issued an injunction against that ban last week.
The 57-page investigation cites allegations of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bias beginning shortly after the October 7 attack and stretching into this year. It includes reports of discriminatory conduct on social media and in campus spaces, as well as sections titled "Targeted harassment by student groups" and "Institutional acceptance of antisemitism."
Much of the investigation’s evidence focuses on campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war, which drew global attention particularly in the spring of 2024 as anti-Israel groups set up encampments on campuses across the United States and in other countries. The investigation says Harvard was "overrun by an impermissible, multiweek encampment" that left Jewish and Israeli students fearful and disrupted their studies.
It accuses Harvard of imposing lax and inconsistent discipline against students who participated in the encampment, noting that none were suspended.
Harvard President Alan Garber has acknowledged problems with antisemitism and anti-Moslem bias on campus, but he says Harvard has made strides to fight prejudice. He announced new initiatives in April after Harvard released its internal reports finding evidence of antisemitism and Islamophobia
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on campus.
"Harvard cannot — and will not — abide bigotry," Garber wrote in releasing the reports.
Harvard pushes back at Trump administration over antisemitism findings
[IsraelTimes] Harvard University says it strongly disagrees with the findings of a federal task force accusing it of being a “willful participant” in antisemitic harassment of Jewish students and faculty.
“Antisemitism is a serious problem and no matter the context, it is unacceptable,” the university says in a statement. “Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism in its community.”
The government’s investigation largely relied on a campus antisemitism study commissioned by Harvard and released in April. Federal officials cited numerous details from that report, including accounts of Jewish students who said they were spit on and faced chants on campus including “Heil Hitler.”
It focuses heavily on last year’s protests over the Israel-Hamas war. In the letter to Harvard, federal officials say the campus was “overrun by an impermissible, multiweek encampment” that left Jewish and Israeli students fearful and disrupted their studies.
The task force threatens to refer the case to the Justice Department to file a civil rights lawsuit “as soon as possible,” unless Harvard comes into compliance.
Harvard has faced mounting sanctions after rejecting a list of federal demands calling for sweeping changes to campus governance, hiring and admissions. The formal finding could now jeopardize Harvard’s eligibility to accept federal loans or grants for students to attend the university — a penalty often referred to as a “death sentence” in higher education.
In a court filing Monday seeking to annul the freezing of federal funds over antisemitism claims, Harvard argues that the formal filing marks a concession by the government that it previously bypassed required procedural findings under Title VI.
It calls the administration’s previous use of antisemitism claims to justify the freeze “arbitrary and capricious,” with the government failing to investigate or document antisemitism on campus itself and relying instead on Harvard’s own study.
The filing also claims an “absence of any concrete evidence of antisemitism in the administrative record,” while accusing the government of ignoring the school’s efforts to combat hate.
“Harvard’s willingness to seek and publish a report harshly condemning antisemitism on its campus, and detailing actions to implement the report’s recommendations, show that Harvard did respond and is responding
forcefully to antisemitism,” the filing reads.
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