Trump administration finds Harvard failed to protect Jewish students, threatens to cut all funding

The University of Harvard did not protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration ended after an investigation, threatening to reduce all

Washington – Harvard University has failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, concluded the Trump administration after an investigation, threatening to reduce all federal funding from Ivy League school if it did not take action.

A federal working group sent a letter to Harvard on Monday to find that the university violated civil rights laws forcing colleges to protect students from discrimination based on race or national origin. He indicated that the investigators noted that Harvard was sometimes a “voluntary participant in the anti -Semitic harassment of students, teachers and Jewish staff” and that campus leaders allowed anti -Semitism to be transmitted to the Cambridge campus, Massachusetts.

“The fact of not instituting adequate changes will immediately result in the loss of all federal financial resources and will continue to affect Harvard relations with the federal government,” said officials in the letter, which was obtained by the Associated Press and reported for the first time by the Wall Street Journal.

Harvard did not immediately comment.

This is the last intensification of the Battle of the White House with Harvard, who lost more than $ 2.6 billion in federal funding after rejected a list of federal requests calling for radical changes to campus governance, hiring and admission.

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