US EditionFor Universities, Trump’s Punishments Far Exceed the Alleged Crimes
- The Trump administration cut about $2.65 billion in federal funding to Harvard University in 2024-2025 and moved to revoke its ability to enroll international students amid accusations of inadequate antisemitism responses on campus.
- These actions followed official claims that Harvard failed to meet civil-rights obligations to protect Jewish students, amid campus protests and demands for ideological audits by the administration.
- Harvard has denied rampant antisemitism as alleged by the government, with lawyer and Harvard visiting professor Philippe Sands calling such claims “complete nonsense,” while the university is suing the U.S. Government over funding and visa restrictions.
- The government plans to vet social media of visa applicants linked to Harvard for antisemitism; meanwhile, Harvard students from Israel face visa risks, raising concerns about impacts on academic freedom and international enrollment.
- These federal penalties escalate tensions between Trump’s administration and elite universities, risking damage to Harvard’s academic mission and raising debates over free speech, antisemitism, and race-based discrimination policies.
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"Trump Remedies to Harvard’s Ills Should Respect Free Speech," by My Hoover Institution Colleague Peter Berkowitz
This excerpt from his piece today in Real Clear Politics should give you a flavor for the argument; the entire piece is worth reading: In its multi-pronged efforts to pressure Harvard to live up to its self-proclaimed mission to seek and transmit knowledge and pursue the truth, the Trump administration seems to be of two minds on free speech. Along with demanding that Harvard meet its obligations under civil-rights law to combat antisemitism on …
For universities, Trump’s punishments far exceed the alleged crimes
People of good will can differ about whether Harvard and its peer universities have met their legal obligations to Jewish students. But, by any standard, the Trump administration’s response has been grotesquely disproportionate.
Last week I was among the hundreds of researchers at Harvard University who were notified of the termination of our federal research grant funding.
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