Five reasons why Trump is at war with Harvard University, according to the University’s anti-Semitism report

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it would escalate the war with Harvard University and curb the university’s remaining $100 million in federal funds.

“The government is completely out of business with Harvard,” a senior manager told Fox News Digital.

At the heart of the battle is the accusation that Harvard University did not fight anti-Semitic campus culture. The university accused the White House of overreaching it and claims it defended free speech, but its own internal investigation appears to have handed over Trump officials ammunition.

Early this year, President Harvard Alan Gerber has called the 2023-2024 grade “I’m sorry and painful.” When he announces the results of two separate task forces, one focuses on anti-Semitism, and the other focuses on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias.

Reports from the Anti-Semitism Task Force painted a dark picture of life for Jews and Israeli students on campus.

Many said they felt they were expelled, harassed online and not supported by the university. Some students told investigators they were under pressure from their peers and faculty members to deny their ties with Israel to prove they were “one of the good things.” Others chose Hide their Jewish identity Overall.

Let’s take a look back at other findings from the report released on April 29th.

Hostile environment for Jewish students

Harvard Jewish, Arab and Muslim students reported feeling exiled, being forced into margins by their peers and experiencing online harassment.

Jewish and Israeli students told the anti-Semitism task force that the university’s response to the complaints was “unknown and mercilessly slow.”

The report said that some Jewish students were associated with “an uncomfortable thing, and in some cases, their existence is a crime.”

Some have decided to hide their identity from their classmates, while others have been asked to abandon one of them. Connection with Israel To prove that they are “one of the good things.”

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“Other groups were not always told that their history was fake and that they or their co-religious or communal ethnic groups were supremacists, oppressors and that they had no right to the protections offered by anti-bias norms,” ​​read one section of the report. “Many Jewish students said they felt like they were the subject of doubt.”

“Jews are now treated like Republicans when I was in college,” one Jewish graduate student told the task force.

The statement “refers to another issue that elite universities have struggled with,” the report said.

At times, reports of anti-Muslim and anti-Semitism task forces appeared to be at odds with each other. Muslim and Palestinian students reported widespread fears of Doxx, or widespread fears of personal identification sharing publicly with the intent to intimidate or harm them. They reported that they looked closely at the photos of their faces on the side of a truck driven around campus by a pro-Israel group.

47% of Muslim students reported not being physically safe on campus for the 2023-2024 grade, compared to 15% of Jewish respondents.

The anti-Semitism report called for a set of rules governing acceptable behaviors among classroom instructors, and the anti-Muslim and Arab bias task force called for universities to do more to protect academic and freedom of speech.

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Academic bias

Anti-Semitism reports found that Harvard classes often portrayed “partisan and unilateral pedagogy” that failed to explain the Jewish and Israeli perspectives, especially within university seminaries and public health schools.

The task force also documented whether students gave time at the end of the class to promote various solidarity groups, such as the Palestinian Solidarity Committee, or if faculty cancel or close the class early on the day of class protest.

The report recommended expanding courses on anti-Semitism, Judaism and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts to promote a more inclusive and inclusive academic environment.

“It appears that some classes have built-in anti-Zionist views,” one student noted.

Fox News Digital contacted Harvard to comment on the report.

Political divisions get worse

In the 1980s and 1990s, the report found that “pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian organizers were strongly opposed, but often worked together to build bridges and collaborate to collaborate on a better future for the region.”

“These efforts began to decline through the second Intifada and the 2010 Israeli Hamas War in the 2000s, and by the time Hamas crashed Israeli border fences in 2023, Harvard University (like the Middle East itself) was very different,” the report read.

Some pro-Palestinian campus organizers “deemed the bridging efforts a form of betrayal,” the report found.

The report found that many students, including Jews, were “sympathetic” to Israel’s “large military response” following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

However, the protests on the campus crossed the line from a similar call for freedom and security for Palestinians and Jews to the concept of stereotypes. Israel was not a nation, but a “settlers’ colony” with no real connection to the stolen land, and its typical aggressiveness and bravery of virtue.

The admission process led to a decline in the Jewish population

The report found that by 2023, due to changes in Harvard’s admissions policy, the Jewish student community was sometimes much smaller than in the early 2010s.

The hostility felt by some students was “deteriorating” to the university, with some Jewish students turning down offers to Harvard, according to the report.

Some PhD Jewish students said they had decided to take jobs in the private industry because of the perception that academia is “not friendly to Jews.”

Some non-Jewish faculty members told the task force that Jewish candidates declined post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Jewish medical students left Harvard Hospital residence “due to the deeper climate politicization.”

The task force determined that Harvard University should change its admissions policy to reflect “what campus should look like: people listening to each other.”

Lack of education surveillance

The task force also discovered a lack of surveillance on seemingly university-approved educational content.

For example, Harvard Chan School of Public Health launched a Palestinian program in 2022 run by a five-person “leadership group.”

“Using Harvard brands for research or educational projects creates expectations for Harvard faculty, staff, students, and the wider public. Programs run without the guidance and supervision of Harvard regular faculty members with the risk of expertise that has not met these expectations,” the task force found.

In another example, the task force found that master’s degree in religion and public life was misrepresented. The program is touted as a way for students to better understand religion and reveal a variety of contemporary issues.

Both faculty and students did not expect the program to focus on issues of Israel and Palestinianism. Some students found that the programme provisions and materials disproportionately presented Israelis and Jews as guilty of a huge historic crime that required both repentance and salvation.

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The program “appears to focus on the religious perspectives of the non-largest Jews, lacking Jewish diaspora and widespread support within Israel.” It also linked the Jews to “two deadly sins,” according to the task force. Creating the Israeli state and participating in white hegemony, staff “It seemed like he was openly accepting it.”