Trump escalates conflict against defiant Harvard

I'm guessing Harvard will triumph over the petulant child administration and we will all be better for it.

Trump's lifelong tactic is to go after critics, perceived enemies or as we all see now, possible threats to his efforts to playing King. He's targeting top tier Universities, Colleges and even law firms, extorting and demanding quid pro quo if they don't cave to his threats and whims.

He's showing all the hallmarks of how extremist dictators function, silencing the press, media, courts, schools, big business and this is only because he's already hijacked the Republican Party and thinks narrowly winning a second term means 'anything goes' so who's left to stop him or uphold rules of laws and sane standards?

He is a dangerous sociopath out for revenge, retribution and along the way plays wrecking ball to the economy while making himself, his family and closest supporters more rich through his overtly corrupt schemes and market manipulation. Stop him now or in a year or less the damage will be far worse for everyone, as he empowers Americas enemies and discards former allies.

Anti-Semitism should not be tolerated. However, the Trump demands are excessive.

Harvard President Alan Garber said the demands go beyond the government’s authority. In a campus message, he wrote that “no government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

What utter idiocy...

And we know why he is doing this - sucker bait...

Keep them dumbfounded with deflection so they won't see all their money going towards huge tax breaks for the ultra wealthy, their jobs being cut or outsourced to immigrants, and their Social Security and Medicare gutted...and their retirement investments going up in MAGA smoke...

Trump pus his supporters into poverty and calls them the "Great Unwashed" and "Basement Dwellers" = and they still adore him...

Proving once again that MAGA-world is nothing but a sick cult...

Anti-Semitism should not be tolerated. However, the Trump demands are excessive.

No, they’re not, don’t violate Federal laws and they can continue receiving Funding.

*Harvard President Alan Garber said the demands go beyond the government’s authority. In a campus message, he wrote that “no government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”*

Good, than stop harassing Jewish students.

https://x.com/tpostmillennial/status/1912159063921799380?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ

don’t violate Federal laws and they can continue receiving Funding.

They are not violating federal law. They are refusing to obey Trump's edict.

Harvard, the oldest and wealthiest university in the United States, is now the most prominent institution to resist Trump's ever-growing bid for control.

That’s fine, they can continue to do whatever they want, they just won’t have Tax Exempt Status any more neither will they receive federal funding, they’re RICH, they don’t need it.

They are not violating federal law.

They are violating Jewish students 1st amendments, therefore, they are violating Federal law by openly embracing and allowing antisemitism.

They are refusing to obey Trump's edict.

They can do that, and Trump can also deny them our tax money, besides, they’ll be fine, $53 billion in endowments? You kidding me? Blank them.

Trump wants to place decisions about education away from the federal government, yet he wants to control what schools teach. Trump wants to control the courts, the media, what people say and do, and what schools teach. It is akin to what authoritarian governments do. Look no further than North Korea, China, and Russia. They are all controlled by the state. They want all their schools to teach exactly the same thing. However, what that thing is, is up to the desires and whims of one person and one person alone, their dear leaders. It is not only morally wrong, but criminally dull.

In any case, grant money going to Harvard has done wonderful things in this world. Without Harvard research, we wouldn't have things like MRI technology or some of the medicines that Trump himself uses to keep him physically healthy. Harvard research also were the ones to make the first organ transplant. And the list of medical and scientific achievements is long.

WA4TKGToday  07:21 am JST

Harvard, the oldest and wealthiest university in the United States, is now the most prominent institution to resist Trump's ever-growing bid for control.

That’s fine, they can continue to do whatever they want, they just won’t have Tax Exempt Status any more neither will they receive federal funding, they’re RICH, they don’t need it.

Hopefully in the future a Democrat administration will find certain southern universities and megachurches in need of losing their tax exempt status.

The present doesn’t judge 47 well, history will be far less forgiving.

A leader should attempt to have some broad appeal and work for everyone. He has only his cult members and lickspittles at this point just months in.

Harvard, a private institution, it is not required by the 1st Amendment to promote terrorist propaganda.

It is obligated under Title VI to protect its Jewish students from discrimination

Hopefully in the future a Democrat administration will find certain southern universities and megachurches in need of losing their tax exempt status.

For doing what? Quick think of something, maybe not wanting to embrace radical liberalism?

Harvard, a private institution, it is not required by the 1st Amendment to promote terrorist propaganda.

It doesn't.

It is obligated under Title VI to protect its Jewish students from discrimination

The jewish students aren't discriminated against.

Even the way media put the title, as if Harvard is the naughty boy. Free speech is the foundation of democracy, and now more and more, foreign agent in US soil want to take away that from US Academia.

bass4funkToday  07:32 am JST

Harvard, a private institution, it is not required by the 1st Amendment to promote terrorist propaganda.

It is obligated under Title VI to protect its Jewish students from discrimination

Can you even name one example of a Jewish student unable to make it to class that wasn't followed up on by police?

Hopefully in the future a Democrat administration will find certain southern universities and megachurches in need of losing their tax exempt status.

For doing what? Quick think of something, maybe not wanting to embrace radical liberalism?

Discrimination against students based on their sexuality and campaigning for Trump from the pulpit respectively.

Harvard President Alan Garber said the demands go beyond the government’s authority. In a campus message, he wrote that “**no government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue**.”

Good, than stop harassing Jewish students.

I'd say going around giving Heil salutes and denying the Holocaust was a lot more "harassing" for Jewish folks...

https://x.com/tpostmillennial/status/1912159063921799380?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ

You do know that "X" is owned by the guy doing all that harrassment...

In fact, by posting links to a site owned by an anti-semite, people could say you're participating in the harassment too...

It doesn't.

Ahhh, so the Jewish students are lying? The media is just making it all up. The Jews don’t know what they’re talking about, eh?

The jewish students aren't discriminated against.

Well, I believe I’m Jimmy Page, I have the right to believe whatever I want.

He's just big mad because a) China won't capitulate to him, and b) Putin, in continuing his aggression against Ukraine, is showing just how impotent Trump is. So he needs someone or something new to try and bully. And, not being the sharpest tool in the shed, he picks on an institution which generally produces very sharp tools.

Protesting the policy of a country is not antisemitism. Is protesting the policies of Trump anti-Satanism?

Well, I believe I’m Jimmy Page, I have the right to believe whatever I want.

So basically what you're saying is that anyone who has an accusation against someone, even if there are no facts to back your accusation up, can be thrown in jail without due process? This is the fundamental problem with Trump and the current GOP. They all feel that they are above the law. They feel that due process, the rule of law, and the Constitution are mere trivialities.

The laughable thing is that if there was discrimination going on, those Jewish who you say were supposedly being discriminated would have every right to protest peacefully because they would be protected to do so under the very same laws in which conservatives have no regard for.

Can you even name one example of a Jewish student unable to make it to class that wasn't followed up on by police?

Many Jewish students received antisemitic messages via social media and email.

Seeing their names appear on “doxxing trucks” which were circulated around campus.

Jewish students who publicly supported Israel said they were called “genocide supporters” or “baby killers” online.

A lawsuit alleged that Harvard was “deliberately indifferent” to the harassment of Jewish students.

The DOE launched a federal investigation into how the university handled complaints of antisemitism.

Jewish students criticized university leadership for issuing delayed or vague statements in response to anti-Jewish incidents.

These people are terrified to wear visible Jewish symbols (like Stars of David or yarmulkes) on campus.

So they can absolutely do what they want, but they won’t get any Federal Funding, done.

The media is just making it all up.

The media you're watching, yes, of course. I could try to explain to you how they are conflating opposition to the palestinian genocide to support for Hamas and persecution of jewish students that never happened, but it would be a waste of time.

The Jews don’t know what they’re talking about, eh?

Alan Garber, the president of Harvard, is jewish.

A lawsuit alleged that Harvard was “deliberately indifferent” to the harassment of Jewish students.

The DOE launched a federal investigation into how the university handled complaints of antisemitism.

These people are terrified to wear visible Jewish symbols (like Stars of David or yarmulkes) on campus.

Weasel words. I can allege that Donald Trump eats babies for breakfast. Hey, I just did allege that. Must be true.

As for "investigations"....how many of those achieve anything concrete?

And how do you know they're "terrified"?

Anti-semitism is an unequivocally bad thing, but using it to justify resentment of an institution which produces some of the smartest people on earth is so transparent.

In the 70's Stanford the peak of Freedom, Now it's Harvard.

Supporting Palestinians is not antisemitism.

Bass4,their are no anti semitic laws in the US

The laughable thing is that if

Not if, again, they’re not getting Federal funding, not because Trump was grumpy. I personally don’t care, nor do I feel even a little bit sorry for Harvard. I don’t want my tax dollars going to any institution that allows antisemitism, so good on Trump for blocking that.

The media you're watching, yes, of course.

NPR, CNN, CBS, all the lib networks

I could try to explain to you how they are conflating opposition to the palestinian genocide to support for Hamas and persecution of jewish students that never happened, but it would be a waste of time.

You can say whatever you want, it’s just a waste of time, I’m just happy they get no money.

Alan Garber, the president of Harvard, is jewish.

And? It hasn’t exactly worked nothing to do with the Jewish students being harassed.

In the 70's Stanford the peak of Freedom, Now it's Harvard.

Maybe not that much, at the beginning of this year Harvard made hard bets towards anticipatory obedience to please Trump, this obviously was completely ineffective but completely weakened the university and it is now in a much worse position than if it defended its principles from the start.

And?

You're asking "The Jews don’t know what they’re talking about, eh?". I'm telling you, the president of Harvard if jewish and he knows exactly what he's talking about.

Stanford? Surely you mean Berkeley.

Go Bears!

You're asking "The Jews don’t know what they’re talking about, eh?".

No, I’m saying, I’m happy they’re not getting Federal funding anymore, that’s the only thing I care about.

This is NOT just about Harvard, it is about Freedom of expression and Speech .

Started out by barring the AP from participating in the white house news conf. then deporting demonstrators, immigrants, Gangsters, and Green Card holders.

Now it's colleges and Universities, next is News outlets and media.

Slowly but surely we are watching a set of events that will change the America that we knew forever.

Don't ask who is behind all this !!? It is NOT Pres. Trump.

Typical gangster/dictator behaviour.

It's more about resisting Trump and not bending to his will. Trump will attack all outspoken institutions and individuals about him and his administration.

They don’t need federal funding when they have a 53 billion dollar endowment.

And?

You're asking "The Jews don’t know what they’re talking about, eh?". I'm telling you, the president of Harvard if jewish and he knows exactly what he's talking about.

BINGO!

There is so much hypocrisy in MAGA-world, you can get overwhelmed with all the self-contradictions...

But one is certainly highlighted here....all this "outrage" at this so-called anti-semitism at Harvard...

Yet a guy they venerate as a MAGA-hero goes around giving Heil salutes, denies the Holocaust, and makes nice with a Neo-Nazi political party in Germany....and is he criticized? Nope...

What's the most offensive thing you could say to someone Jewish? Maybe the attempted extermination of every Jew by Hitler wasn't real?

The utter absurdity of MAGA-world, for all to see...

“Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard,” he wrote. 

Alan Garber Havard President.

MIT’s Sally Kornbluth and Wesleyan’s Michael Roth have also warned that free expression and academic independence are at risk.

https://forward.com/news/712471/harvard-alan-garber-trump-funding-antisemitism/

Attacking education from the guy who love the uneducated... that make sense.

He is not only attacking the world but also the US.

Maga, are you tired yet?

generally, I believe oversight is not needed but remind me why a private university is getting public funds.

I don’t want my tax dollars going to any institution that allows antisemitism, so good on Trump for blocking that

First of all, they are not encouraging Antisemitism. Secondly, if you take away funding, then you might as well take away every advancement made by Harvard research, such as organ transplants, MRIs, cancer detection, medicines, etc.

First of all, they are not encouraging Antisemitism.

Wrong.

https://x.com/amuse/status/1912115746605347225?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ

Harvard University, leaders of the university are sounding the alarm that the loss of funding will severely cripple their ability to find a final solution to the Jewish Problem.

The Jewish Problem, according to Harvard, is that there are many Jews on campus and these Jews believe they have a right to attend classes without being harmed, even though they are Jews. Trump had frozen federal funding in part over a disagreement with the university's tolerance for violent antisemitism on campus, which Harvard says may actually be part of the solution they've been trying to find.

"We have to solve the Jewish Problem," said University spokesperson Abdul Muhammed Al-Muhammed. "Federal funds being frozen mean we simply can't conduct the important research we have been working on to combat Jewish influence and control over the various media, economies, and governments around the world."

"Sieg Heil, and Allahu Akbar," he added.

https://babylonbee.com/news/harvard-warns-loss-of-federal-funding-will-cripple-their-ability-to-find-solution-for-the-jewish-problem

Secondly, if you take away funding, then you might as well take away every advancement made by Harvard research, such as organ transplants, MRIs, cancer detection, medicines, etc.

Sounds good to me.

No one voted for this in the election and it wasn’t mentioned in Trump's campaign.

Trump is also penalising the Jewish students.

owzerToday 08:36 am JST

generally, I believe oversight is not needed but remind me why a private university is getting public funds.

They get federal funds to do federal medical and science research FOR THE COUNTRY AT LARGE. This isn't just free money, and trump knows this too. He's just holding government contracts hostage so he can yell at them. If they don't get those funds we all are hurt, including the rest of the world incidentally - because all science trickles down to the entire world in a way money doesn't, as university research is generally publicly released. Other country's scientists can work off of that research too.

Also there's no such thing as radical liberalism. What liberals want is to be able to freely live their lives without harassment and with a baseline of health and human services. Republicans want that too, but they ALSO want to be able to harass people and force them to bend to their crazy religious institutions.

A civil discussion between different people about any subject isn't hate speech. It is a way to understand each other.

Funny how Trump is attacking freedom of speech by withholding funding from efforts he doesn't like, illegally. Actually, it isn't funny. It is sad. And for the people who act like this is a good thing, I wonder where their parents, teachers, and mentors failed them so much that they actually choose to follow someone who is using Hitler's playbook for dividing a country. It would be funny, if it weren't seen constantly, daily, on the news and in these comments.

College protests over Gaza war/disaster were huge in 2024, major factor in Trump's election, the societal chaos and it brought out a lot of bad actors, specifically radicalized foreign students in the US on Student Visas.

DJT just cleaning the problem and the risk these students pose to the safety of US citizens and all those law-abiding visitors in the US, including other students!

DJT campaigned on taking a hardline regarding all illegal immigrants or those in the US on Visa status breaking US laws and thwarting US Govt. Policy etc.

I am a little unsure how a Jewish student at one of the worlds foremost Universities with a probable career path towards a million dollar salary can claim discrimination in a real world scenario.

Being at Harvard makes you one of the elite.

Compare this position to a student in Gaza and the "discrimination " claim is laughable.

Harvard cannot be a 'sanctuary' from DJT Admin enforcement of immigration laws and should comply with the Trump Admin's legal enforcement like MANY other schools, including their peer Columbia in NYC.

Otherwise, the $funding will be cut, their tax status changed, and the legal wars will take place, as this is a BIG winning issue for DJT, few voters have sympathy for "RICH" Harvard and their radicalized foreign students.

Trump's claims aside, the freedom of speech aside, the politics aside, etc...

Many comments point to this being a "private institut" and the Government cannot or should not be telling it what it can or cannot do!

OK, let's go with that, it is a private institut that Charges $60,000 base tuition but then has other fees and requirements that end up at a minimum costing each student $90,000 per year.

So if as a "private institut" and charging a minimum of $90,000 yearly and doesn't want government interference then shouldn't it just forgo the $2.2 billion from the federal government?

One cannot say "we are independent" " we are private" " government has no say" but then say "hey give us $2.2 billion in funding".

If I was the American tax payer, I would be asking why a private institut charging extremely high tuition, that caters to students that are often well off or elite and privileged is receiving $2.2 billion of my tax dollars.

Sorry but in my view, if you claim to be private then be private and fund yourself.

No one voted for this in the election and it wasn’t mentioned in Trump's campaign.

Actually, he did mention that in his campaign.

MAGA supporters do not have a problem living under Trump’s dictatorship whatever course it takes.

The cuts are unlawful.

Trump demands an apology.

He wants the university to spy on the foreign students who all universities need to keep student fees down.

No one voted for this in the election and it wasn’t mentioned in Trump's campaign.

We did and he did.

All US private universities and schools receive government funding.

https://babylonbee.com/news/harvard-warns-loss-of-federal-funding-will-cripple-their-ability-to-find-solution-for-the-jewish-problem

Still can't get over the fact this dude posted an article from a parody website he actually took seriously. And he even copy-pasted it, highlighting the parts he thought were most egregious. A parody. That he read and thought was a real news article.

This is the average Trump supporter. Debating what Harvard should be doing.

All US private universities and schools receive government funding.

Not anymore. Especially ones who don’t follow federal guidance.

Its the Jewish lobby on steroids driving this.

No criticism of Israel is permissible .

Which is amusing because many Jewish students are protesting for an end to the war.

These are then called "self loathing Jews "

Everything is circular and returns to the position of Jewish supremacy...as determined by some Jews only.

Funding to all institutions from Govt. requires compliance and conditions in order to receive funding. DJT has determined that Harvard's not complying with legal conditions needed to be eligible for such funding.

Courts will decide, but most voters have very little sympathy for Harvard and their radicalized terrorist supporting foreign (or US) students = DJT happy to fight!

We have seen it before: the representatives of the US industrial military complex, mainly from the Jewish lobbies making billions of dollars with their wars all over the world, disseminating disinformation to influence public opinion: a master of deceit.

Like Naomi Chomsky says, it is imperative “To develop intellectual self defense, defend against manipulation”

What a country United States have became, eh?!

Blacklabel

All US private universities and schools receive government funding.

Not anymore. Especially ones who don’t follow federal guidance

Then poorer students won’t be able to attend private schools and will have to return to the public ones.

if you take away funding, then you might as well take away every advancement made by Harvard research, such as organ transplants, MRIs, cancer detection, medicines, etc.

Bass replies: “Sounds good to me.”

There, folks, is the MAGA hypocrisy. How on earth can you ‘make amerika great again’ by taking away those kind of massive advancements in science?!?!

would not "negotiate over its independence

Well they are governed by there pvt donors, and sizable amount is from ME donors, federal funding is around 16% only, as such for now can put a brave face.

inciting riots is not freedom of speech and no institution receiving federal grants should be promoting such activity.

MAGA supporters do not have a problem living under Trump’s dictatorship whatever course it takes. 

The last 4 years was a dictatorship

The cuts are unlawful.

No, they’re not, harassing students based on their religion is.

Trump demands an apology.

He wants the university to spy on the foreign students who all universities need to keep student fees down.

If they practice antisemitism, yes.

All US private universities and schools receive government funding.

Protect Jewish students the exact same way you push to protect Palestinian students make the campuses safe and from verbal assaults, doxxing etc and the funding will continue, it’s that simple.

There, folks, is the MAGA hypocrisy. How on earth can you ‘make amerika great again’ by taking away those kind of massive advancements in science?!?!

I personally think the well-being of students regardless of religion should be protected and should not have to be fearful of going to campus wondering if they will be physically or verbally assaulted or blocked from entering their classroom

The USA is on a fast track to dictatorship and universities are being targeted, as part of a wider effort, to silence any opposition.

When laws are unjust civil disobedience is a duty.

Then poorer students won’t be able to attend private schools and will have to return to the public ones.

poor people are going to Harvard? I doubt that.

If can’t pay, they can join the military and earn a free college education or work their way through college.

You know, how people did pre DEI.

Secondly, if you take away funding, then you might as well take away every advancement made by Harvard research, such as organ transplants, MRIs, cancer detection, medicines, etc.

Sounds good to me.

This is where maga are at. Having to refuse organ transplants and cancer detection to take a stand.

Protect Jewish students the exact same way you push to protect Palestinian students make the campuses safe and from verbal assaults, doxxing etc and the funding will continue, it’s that simple.

Or do what you are cheering and just cut funding for all students without even trying. Is that the best approach do you think?

Universities not being 'targeted', Harvard on outlier, the richest and most radicalized leftist University. They don't even need Govt. money given their $Endowment status.

Very few US University Presidents want 'bad actors' on campus, whether US citizens or not. Certainly not protests shutting down education in support of designated terrorist groups like Hamas.

Again, Harvard the outlier, thousands of other of US Universities very much in compliance with DJT Admin and not seeking 'sanctuary' status for their schools.

DJT = Common Sense Policies to Keep US Safe Terrorism's rowing risk due to Biden Admin years of open borders and other policies to include student visa grants

Continuing the drop over the precipice.

Going Down, Down, Down.

That Trump, self-appointed arbiter of all things outside of Presidential Office, sees fit to take on any entity with a hint of the slightest criticism against him, exposes his fragility.

His whacky flip-flopping of recent times, is now matched with his desperate need to control universities, to re-make them in his own mold - a mold growing decidedly more reckless and despotic in manner day by day.

It was fun to watch and laugh at him and his regime in the beginning - chuckles galore - but now too many are suffering through the actions of his overly dominant Id.

Having to refuse organ transplants and cancer detection to take a stand.

they have 53 billion dollars in endowments, why would that happen?

Having to refuse organ transplants and cancer detection to take a stand.

they have 53 billion dollars in endowments, why would that happen?

Wasn’t talking to you. I was replying to Bass’ hypothetical “sounds good to me”. Even though he doesn’t deal in hypotheticals of course.

Trump will also dictate which students can attend Harvard and other universities.

Blacklabel

Then poorer students won’t be able to attend private schools and will have to return to the public ones.

poor people are going to Harvard? I doubt that.

You posted there will be no more government grants for all private schools and universities. Grants allow poorer students to attend private schools.

Trump will also dictate that students attending universities like Harvard will no longer receive government student loans.

Or do what you are cheering and just cut funding for all students without even trying. Is that the best approach do you think?

It’s not that hard, stop harassing Jewish students, leave them alone, stop verbally and physically assaulting them, then libs have nothing to worry about.

Trump will also dictate which students can attend Harvard and other universities.

Stop harassing students based on their religion or ethnicity and you won’t have any problems.

Endowments aren’t a simple replacement for government funding because of restrictions related to donor earmarking, legality and research priorities, experts say.

Endowments come with their unique conditions.

You posted there will be no more government grants for all private schools and universities

did I?

I said the ones that don’t follow federal guidance.

bass4funk

Trump will also dictate which students can attend Harvard and other universities.

Stop harassing students based on their religion or ethnicity and you won’t have any problems.

Harvard and other universities did not make any protests. That was the students exercising their right to free speech and protest.

Harvard and other universities did not make any protests. That was the students

students of…..Harvard.

no?

they cant/dont control what their enrolled students do on their campus?

Not to mention many of the protesters aren’t even students there.

they can’t ban non students from entry If they wanted to? which they don’t because they support this.

Blacklabel

Harvard and other universities did not make any protests. That was the students

students of…..Harvard.

Universities are not Madrasas although Trump would like to make some form of those.

they cant/dont control what their enrolled students do on their campus?

They did and removed the protests.

Top universities like Harvard save the government many billions with their research programs that the government would have to have if they didn't.

bass4funk

Harvard and other universities did not make any protests.

The students did and the students go where? Yes?…Harvard

I see so in your opinion if workers go on strike it is the fault of the company and not the workers and should all be fired.

Bass...you just posted a link to a SATIRICAL LETTER, thinking it was "kosher "...pun intended....

Jonathon Swift, English satirist , wrote in the 18th Century about a solution to "the Irish Problem " which envisaged eating Irish people to reduce the population.

I think MAGA would post this as a "real solution " too.

Harvard refusing to sink into Trump's deeper and broader new swamp.

I see so in your opinion

It’s not an opinion, this is the main reason why Harvard lost its funding

if workers go on strike it is the fault of the company and not the workers and should all be fired.

Don’t go off a tangent, that’s not what I was talking about, we were talking about the assaults on Jewish students

Supporting Palestinians is not antisemitism.

Unfortunately for Trump's government both are the same thing. There is no Palestinian support allowed since the purpose is to support Israel no matter what under threat of terrorism accusations for anybody doing differently. Unfortunately this was warned from the beginning of the election process but people refused to believe it would happen.

bass4funk

I see so in your opinion

It’s not an opinion, this is the main reason why Harvard lost its funding

It remains your opinion unless you can show Harvard was responsible for the protests.

if workers go on strike it is the fault of the company and not the workers and should all be fired.

Don’t go off a tangent, that’s not what I was talking about, we were talking about the assaults on Jewish students

It is not a tangent just another example of the way you would think.

Harvard Settles Antisemitism Lawsuits

https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harvard-settles-antisemitism-lawsuits

At a December 5, 2023 hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Rep. Elise Stefanik ’06 (R-NY) asked Harvard President Claudine Gay whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” violates “Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment.” Gay responded, “It can be, depending on the context.” That vague, legalistic response sparked furious criticism and eventually contributed to her January 2024 resignation.

As far as Antisemitism is concerned Harvard is a toxic cesspool sneering hatred at the Jew.

It’s not an opinion, this is the main reason why Harvard lost its funding

Nope, the main reason why "Harvard lost its funding" is because the Trump and his cronies are pushing for an anti-intellectual authoritarian regime.

The Trump administration has threatened, and in most cases withheld, billions of dollars in federal grants and contracts from elite colleges largely due to allegations of antisemitism on campuses after a wave of pro-Palestinian protests last year.

Impacted federal funding amounts:

Harvard University $2.26B

Cornell University $1B

Northwestern University $790M

Brown University $510M

Columbia University $400M

Princeton University $210M

University of Pennsylvania $175M

Amount for Harvard includes $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts. Cornell amount is estimated to be at least $1 billion. Amount for Brown University is tentative as of April 3. Source: AP reports; CNN

BREAKING: Elise Stefanik Absolutely Explodes At Harvard's President And Calls For Her Resignation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f-E6LiYReM

There is no doubt here, Antisemitisms, pure and simple no denial or doubt here  

By May 6, 2024, student protests had occurred in 45 of the 50 states in the United States and the District of Columbia, with encampments, occupations, walkouts or sit-ins on almost 140 campuses.

A study by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) found that 97% of protests were nonviolent and nearly half of those that became violent involved protesters fighting with law enforcement during police interventions.

BREAKING

Breaking? as in happening right now instead of more than one year ago?

So, you believe Claudine Gay is still the president of Harvard? I mean, since you are using this as supposedly proof that nothing has been done.

Alan Garber Havard President.

If I'm not mistaken, several prominent republicans are Harvard grads. Steve Bannon (presumably didn't graduate from the school of hygiene or diplomacy), former Propaganda Barbie Kayleigh McEnany, Pompeo, Tom Cotton (law)...given that it produced some of his most loyal sycophants who willingly traded their sense of self worth to him for their 15 minutes, you have to wonder why he's still got it in for the place.

It,Jews have a history of doing others Jews ends,than the some total of all terrorists,lots of Jews participate in the final solution of other Jews

The link from  December 5, 2023 refers to the hearing, a reminder of the clear admittance to institutional antisemitism.

April 2025 to this day, the sitting Jewish Havard President, physician and economist Dr Alan Garber refuses to accept or acknowledge outright Trump administration’s demands are justified.

Instead .....

“Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard,” 

Disingenuous, intentionally misleading. shallow hollow weasel words

Nope, the main reason why "Harvard lost its funding" is because the Trump and his cronies are pushing for an anti-intellectual authoritarian regime.

I’m more worried about Jewish students

If I read an "opinion piece " about "the Jewish problem " at Harvard, by an author called Muhammad , who completed his piece with "Sig Heil ".....yeah...I would be a little suspicious this piece was not a humorous troll item.

BUT if I was someone who was HYPERVIGILENT about certain issues, I would overcome any doubt and rush to post as an example of "antisemiticism in Harvard "

"Hypervigilism " is best explained by the nervous bush walker who sees snakes where there are only fallen branches.

The link from  December 5, 2023 refers to the hearing, a reminder of the clear admittance to institutional antisemitism.

So you confirm that you think Claudine Gay is still the president of Harvard, ok. I mean, if not you would be proving yourself wrong by showing how the scandal had consequences at that time.

Disingenuous, intentionally misleading. shallow hollow weasel words

Just claiming the arguments used are wrong without using any actual arguments on your own means Garber is correct. After all you could not refute anything he said, just claimed is wrong.

Trump's cabinet is very pro-Israel with 13 Jewish members. He also stated wanting to turn Gaza into his Middle East Resort minus all those pesky Palestinians.

I’m more worried about Jewish students

None of them have been arrested and deported, so you can rest your heart.

bass4funkToday 07:51 am JST

Seeing their names appear on “doxxing trucks” which were circulated around campus.

Sounds like something the MAGA does regularly.

bass4funkToday 07:51 am JST

Many Jewish students received antisemitic messages via social media and email.

"From the river and to the sea, Palestine will be free" is not an antisemitic message. Also Harvard can't do anything about those things unless the senders are students.

Bass4, racist trash like are only concern about racist trash like Trump

virusrex

The link and Claudine Gay resignation, highlights the institutionalised nature of the deep seated rampant anti-semitism infesting Harvard.

 Dr Alan Garber has failed to navigate a volatile political landscape.

The the bane of the world of arrogant academia.

virusrex, you should set aside you r

virusrex

The link and Claudine Gay resignation, highlights the institutionalised nature of the deep seated rampant anti-semitism infesting Harvard.

 Dr Alan Garber has failed to navigate a volatile political landscape.

The the bane of the world of arrogant academia.

virusrex, you should set aside you r

Sounds like something the MAGA does regularly.

Not really

"From the river and to the sea, Palestine will be free" is not an antisemitic message.

Saying, I don’t want Blacks working in my restaurant is also not racist.

Also Harvard can't do anything about those things unless the senders are students.

They have enough money, they don’t need my money. Again, protect Jewish students or lose funding, their choice.

By May 6, 2024, student protests had occurred in 45 of the 50 states in the United States and the District of Columbia, with encampments, occupations, walkouts or sit-ins on almost 140 campuses.

A study by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) found that 97% of protests were nonviolent and nearly half of those that became violent involved protesters fighting with law enforcement during police interventions.

Yes, those police officers should not have been directed to violently brake up protests which were overwhelmingly peaceful.

Continuing virusex....

Your personal loathing/disdain of Donald Trump, acknowledge Harvard has a deep seated core of anti-semitic hate within its halls.

I think it is time to remind people that the draftees of the "anti semitic " definition have had to come out and say the term is overused, and criticism of the state of Israel is not of itself "antisemitic "

But I guess if you are hypervigilant and easily triggered, everything can be anti semitic.

bass4funk

They have enough money, they don’t need my money. Again, protect Jewish students or lose funding, their choice.

You seem to understand so little about endowments which each have their own set of conditions made by the donors. You need to be a federal taxpayer to think 1¢ of your money is going to any of the 1,700 private universities.

Our Resolve

On antisemitism

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/our-resolve/

You seem to understand so little about endowments

No, the other way around. This is why I think pulling funding is a good thing.

which each have their own set of conditions made by the donors. You need to be a federal taxpayer to think 1¢ of your money is going to any of the 1,700 private universities.

Not sure what that has anything to do with Jewish students being assaulted.

Dr Alan Garber has failed to navigate a volatile political landscape.

That is still not an argument, much less something that refutes what he says, he could not be navigating anything and still be completely right in his complain about Trump.

Your personal loathing/disdain of Donald Trump, acknowledge Harvard has a deep seated core of anti-semitic hate within its halls.

When you immediately descend to personal attacks when your lack of arguments is made evident you are openly confirming this is true, you could not come up with any argument to refute a point, so you give up and instead attack the people that proved you wrong, even if explicitly against the rules of the site.

Rules that you promised to obey in order to participate.

No, the other way around. This is why I think pulling funding is a good thing.

Endowments can't replace government funding because they are designed to complement it towards very specific purposes. There is zero mechanisms to allow endowments to fund completely a research project and instead they work by default only when a research environment (and all their costs) are already in place.

This is why pretending that pulling funding is good remains a very good argument to prove you don't understand how endowments work and can be used. This is like saying that you can make a hospital more productive by putting only surgical rooms and not hospital beds.

In this case scientists are on one side of the issue and politicians on the other, you are now saying that people should trust the politicians, which by default disqualifies the argument as terribly naive, if not purposefully emtpy.

MAGA clutching their pearls about antisemitism sounds really hollow once you remember their "daddy" happily had dinner with known antisemites Nick Fuentes and Kanye.

The endowment is made up of over 14,000 funds; the two largest categories of funds support faculty and students, including professorships and financial aid for undergraduates, graduate fellowships, and student life and activities.

https://finance.harvard.edu/endowment

Not sure what that has anything to do with Jewish students being assaulted.

Jewish students or any others are not being assaulted and Harvard has put in place an antisemitic program.

https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/our-resolve/

MAGA clutching their pearls about antisemitism sounds really hollow once you remember their "daddy" happily had dinner with known

antisemites Nick Fuentes and Kanye.

No one is excusing what they are saying, but it's different, they are expressing their 1st amendment in public and NOT physically harassing or assaulting Jews on the streets, but we are not talking about what people in public do: stay focused. I would feel the same if the shoe was on the other foot. I do not stand with the Palestinians on campus and their beliefs, but if Jewish students were harassing them and verbally assaulting them, I would have an issue with them as well. Wrong is wrong.

Jewish students or any others are not being assaulted and Harvard has put in place an antisemitic program.

Wrong again.

https://youtu.be/1jBHvx7POz8?si=s6LEh9hefQdKFWW1

https://youtu.be/WA3mSiSon9U?si=LK6T9V_ZJ65K2aeg

bass4funk

You are out of date.

the first YouTube link is from 2023.

the second YouTube video is from May 2024.

Are you claiming Jewish students in April 2025 are still being attacked, and they were small in numbers? Are you also denying Harvard has taken action against antisemitism?

No one is excusing what they are saying, but it's different, they are expressing their 1st amendment in public and NOT physically harassing or assaulting Jews on the streets

Nick Fuentes just got arrested for battery a few months ago.

Wrong again.

Why bring sources of one year ago? are you indirectly trying to concede that the situation is much different now by showing how you could not find anything even remotely current and had to go back one year to find anything? I guess that is a very round away way to accept the claims is false, but it would be much easier and better to say it directly.

If someone is doing something illegal, they should be charged with that crime.

If not, then go fly a kite.

Are you claiming Jewish students in April 2025 are still being attacked,

Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bHmls2UGPN4

and they were small in numbers?

One is too many, if the student were Black, the left would be all over it.

Are you also denying Harvard has taken action against antisemitism?

Not nearly enough to satisfy and ease the fear of Jewish students.

Nick Fuentes just got arrested for battery a few months ago.

If he is guilty of that, then he should be punished.

Their should be a final solution,but not at the expense of Palestinians

Why bring sources of one year ago?

So when Trump brings up the past, he should leave it, when Steve Scalise talks about how he was almost killed, it was in the past, when Blacks talk about slavery, we cannot and must not forget. Here we go...

are you indirectly trying to concede that the situation is much different now by showing how you could not find anything even remotely current and had to go back one year to find anything? I guess that is a very round away way to accept the claims is false, but it would be much easier and better to say it directly.

I said, what I said, just keeping the facts straight, nothing more, no need to split hairs now.

I don't do "personal attacks" virusrex.

Donald Trump, is clearly not the President you would elect, as must as you share my insistence that Harvard has come close to purging anti semitic hate.