Harvard is fighting the White House harder than it ever fought antisemitism

Harvard’s tense showdown with the Trump medication took different costly crook aft the White House froze much than $2 cardinal successful national backing pursuing the Ivy League school’s nonaccomplishment to curtail antisemitism. 

Explaining its determination not to comply with President Donald Trump’s orders aimed astatine curbing antisemitism, Harvard President Alan Garber said, "No government—regardless of which enactment is successful power—should dictate what backstage universities tin teach, whom they tin admit and hire, and which areas of survey and enquiry they tin pursue."

Conversely, White House spokesperson Kush Desai stated that the Trump medication is "motivated by 1 happening and 1 happening only: tackling antisemitism…Antisemitic protesters inflicting unit and taking implicit full assemblage field buildings is not lone a crude show of bigotry against Jewish Americans, but wholly disruptive to the intelligence enquiry and probe that national backing of colleges is meant to support."

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Harvard University Police locomotion adjacent a pro-Palestinian structure encampment connected Harvard Yard successful Cambridge, Massachusetts, connected May 10. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

The depressing constituent that’s mislaid successful this standoff is that Harvard appears to beryllium warring the Trump medication and the president's Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism harder than it has ever fought antisemitism connected its ain campus. 

Where was Harvard’s fierce resoluteness erstwhile swastikas and antisemitic stickers were plastered adjacent Harvard's Hillel? Or erstwhile a Harvard worker was filmed ripping down posters of Israeli hostages, including those of the slain Bibas babies? Or erstwhile an Israeli concern schoolhouse pupil was surrounded, mobbed and shouted disconnected field by pro-Palestinian protesters for the heinous transgression of being Jewish? 

Harvard is so a backstage university. But dissimilar Hillsdale College, a tiny wide arts assemblage successful Michigan which stopped accepting national backing successful 1984, Harvard is inactive the recipient of billions of dollars of national funding. That means Harvard is taxable to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits favoritism against each students, including Jewish students, connected the ground of race, colour oregon nationalist origin. 

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An anti-Israel protestation by Harvard students and sympathizers. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Public oregon private, Harvard has an work to guarantee the information of its pupil population. From harassment. From discrimination. From violence. These are precise rudimentary expectations that Jewish students impeach the assemblage of having neglected, starring to egregious civilian rights violations and a suit alleging that "Harvard, America’s starring university, has go a bastion of Jewish hatred and harassment…numerous students and module members astatine Harvard person openly endorsed Hamas’s October 7 massacre, issuing nationalist statements blaming Jews for their ain murders, oregon different excusing oregon supporting Hamas’s actions."

A elemental question persists: Why is determination truthful overmuch contention astir measures being taken to support Jewish students? Had the national authorities threatened to chopped disconnected national backing to universities failing to support LGBTQ groups, would determination beryllium specified outcry? Of people not. If masked KKK racists stormed a assemblage field today, threatened to onslaught achromatic students and the assemblage medication failed to code that threat, would national authorities involution beryllium truthful roundly condemned? It rightly would not. 

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But erstwhile again, successful the words of British writer and screenwriter David Baddiel, Jews don’t count.