Trump Admin Finds Harvard Violated Jewish, Israeli Students’ Civil Rights
“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government.”
The Wall Street Journal revealed that President Donald Trump’s administration’s investigation found that Harvard violated the civil rights of its Jewish and Israeli students.
In a letter sent to Harvard President Alan Garber on Monday and viewed by The Wall Street Journal, attorneys for the administration said the investigation found that Harvard knew Jewish and Israeli students felt threatened on its campus and acted with deliberate indifference.
“Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources and continue to affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government,” the letter states. “Harvard may of course continue to operate free of federal privileges, and perhaps such an opportunity will spur a commitment to excellence that will help Harvard thrive once again.”
Harvard didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
A formal “notice of violation” of civil-rights law generally is a step that can come before either a lawsuit from the Justice Department or a voluntary resolution with the school. Under past presidential administrations, civil-rights investigations at universities usually ended with voluntary resolution agreements.
Today, @HHSOCR found that Harvard is in violent violation of Title VI due to their persistent indifference toward Antisemitism on campus.
The Trump Administration’s work to restore equal enforcement of civil rights on American campuses continues. pic.twitter.com/1vsoqaOlnz
— Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) June 30, 2025
Is anyone shocked the investigation found that the university never protected those students?
Harvard did nothing when antisemites “assaulted and spit on” Jewish and Israeli students.
Those students “concealed their identities in fear of being harassed.”
Let’s not forget the antisemitic tropes:
It also states that images of antisemitic tropes were widely circulated on campus, including one that “showed a dollar sign inside a Star of David,” and that the campus was vandalized with antisemitic symbols, including one with “an Israeli flag with a swastika in place of the Star of David.”
Beyond disgusting.
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No kidding..
The gate in the photograph is the Van Wickle Gate at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, not Harvard University.
It would be appropriate for Harvard to replace the symbol on their gate with a Nazi swastika. They’ve embraced antisemitism and might as well go all in.
Their president, Alan Garber, is going to end up as the poster child for this era’s kapos. Congrats Alan. Well done.
Or, change the gate to look like the one at Dachau: Arbeiter Mach Frei”.
Only problem with that is most of the students aren’t affected.
this all sounds appropriate but a federal judge will nix it
retroactive to 1962
According to some, they are simply trying not to assimilate and the Administration is supporting that venture.
According to some, the students are simply trying not to assimilate and the Administration is supporting that venture.
The Trump Administration is going after the biggest fish in the pond as a giant warning to others. Will any of them get the message? I’m not thinking they will. Harvard has the endowment to survive this, most universities and colleges do not.
The private colleges that don’t take federal money directly better pay attention. Government student loan guarantee’s that Obama seized from the private market under great fanfare will be their Achilles heel. Being private does not shield them from civil rights violations.
Harvard does have a huge Endowment but the exact valuation is probably less than it may seem particularly for the real estate holdings. In any even much of it won’t be liquid and the annual return is almost certainly not enough to come anywhere close to fully funding the current faculty, operations budget and research projects.
Could Harvard downsize their size and scope to the limits of a very conservative draw on the income from their Endowment? Sure…but that wouldn’t be the Harvard of today. They’d be much more like Hillsdale v the behemoth of today. They’d lose their research grants and the researchers along with them to competing Univ which is huge blow to their academic prestige. They’d end up as a sort of anti Hillsdale more like Oberlin but with a larger Endowment.
Also, Trump seems to be delivering his usual “shock and awe” approach. Hit them simultaneously from several different directions with multiple legal actions.
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