Harvard Violated Civil Rights of Jews, Trump Officials Say (1)

June 30, 2025, 3:30 PM UTC

The Trump administration said a US investigation found that Harvard University violated civil rights law in its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students, further endangering federal funding for the school.

“Harvard has been in some cases deliberately indifferent, and in others has been a willful participant in antisemitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff,” the government said in a letter Monday to the university’s president, Alan Garber. “Failure to institute adequate changes immediately will result in the loss of all federal financial resources.”

The finding ramps up pressure on the oldest and richest US university less than two ...

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