The federal government has moved to cut an additional $450 million in grants to Harvard after the university failed to adequately address “pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment.”
“This is just the latest chapter in Harvard’s long-standing policy and practice of discriminating on the basis of race as recognized by the Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, where the Court rebuked Harvard for its unlawful race discrimination in admissions,” the joint task force said in a statement. “That shameful legacy has continued on as recognized by Harvard’s own Presidential Task Force on Combating Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israeli Bias, which lays bare an appalling reality: Jewish students were subjected to pervasive insults, physical assault, and intimidation, with no meaningful response from Harvard’s leadership. Recent reporting has exposed the Harvard Law Review’s (HLR) pattern of endemic race discrimination when evaluating articles for inclusion in its journal.”
The task force noted that HLR awarded a $65,000 fellowship to a “protester who faced criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student on campus.”
“There is a dark problem on Harvard’s campus, and by prioritizing appeasement over accountability, institutional leaders have forfeited the school’s claim to taxpayer support,” the statement added. “As a result, eight federal agencies across the government are announcing the termination of approximately $450 million in grants to Harvard, which is in addition to the $2.2 billion that was terminated last week.”
The latest funding slash follows Education Secretary Linda McMahon declaring in a letter sent to Harvard University President Alan Garber that the university “has made a mockery of this country’s higher education system.”
“It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus,” she noted. “In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor.”
